I think you're making too many threads once your replies column is bombarded by zeros in a given board. [Replies: 0] [Replies: 0] [Replies: 0]...
Why don't you like the bots? It increases your "users online" count which makes the board look more active :P I have a Facebook Like button below...
IP.SEO is free. In fact, it probably costs them more to maintain a separate product.
XenForo uses TinyMCE. I like IPB's new editor a little more because it isn't as flat looking and there's a button to easily disable WYSIWYG....
There's been an RTE since 3.0, this one is just on by default and powered by CKEditor.
People are probably more willing to give him larger amounts of money because he runs a radio station free of charge.
I don't understand why IP.SEO isn't built into IPB, sitemap generation is a must in this day and age. That said, I do use IP.SEO. Does XenForo...
I don't think any forum software has #2... I don't let members delete posts, but they can edit them. If anything gets abused, I have my backups ;)
The unannounced feature is probably related to that new "is_touch" variable in the JavaScript. Maybe it will support multitouch gestures on...
Here's my rather lame IP.Content implementation. I used to use it for articles but I didn't update it very much so I figured "screw it" and just...
I think content is first and design is a big second. An ugly yet active forum doesn't sound that appealing, but a beautiful yet empty forum isn't...
Depends on the situation. Usually splitting it and moving the off topic portion to the off topic board works.
I do that all the time ._. It's usually something to do with the cache too.... My board will throw a PHP error about a missing method in a cache...
I think shoutboxes are a little cheezy. They take away forum activity. If your community is large enough, consider setting up an IRC channel....
I use text ranks on my small board, but IMO image ranks are little much.
Separate names with a comma.