I think this forum should have some kind of paid subscription feature. Basically you pay for the subscription and get moved to a new usergroup where you receive many new benefits/features.
Here are some features taken from DP forum as example.
- Access to private forum for premium users
- Private message box will hold up to 5,000 messages and don't auto-delete until after 180 days (1,000 messages and 90 days is default)
- Ability to change user title (regardless if you change it [or even if you don't]), your user title will be bold
- You can customize your profile (see my profile for an example)
- Threads you start in Buy/Sell/Trade will be sticky for the first 2 hours (stay at the top) as well as become sticky again for the last 2 hours of your sale.
- Threads in Buy/Sell/Trade are highlighted
- You get 4 links in your signature (2 is default)
- Mediation of "bad deals" within Buy/Sell/Trade
- Ads are removed from within your posts (in cases where there would be one)
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