Quote Originally Posted by Behold the Void View Post
1. DON'T USE A FREE BOARD. I cannot stress this enough. If I see invisionfree or proboards or whatever in the URL, I immediately exit out as it's already proven it's not worth it. If you want a serious forum, you gotta pay for it.
<a href="http://www.phpbb.com/">phpbb</a> is free and I know of many large forums running it. Many larger than EoFF even. I would say rather than "Don't use a free board", something like "Host your own board, don't use a cookie-cutter mass-host where your board is lost in a jumble of thousands of others".