But let's talk about other forums and learn the bests points of those forums and maybe catch something to us, I will not put names here and want that nobody do that too, just talk some interesting ideas of those forums...
Portfolio: Some forums have in every profile a portfolio button where the member can load their images and comment and some can even receive comments. PI (Personal Idea [about it): I like it, but it is hard to establish and we can open our own topic, but portfolio still a good idea!
Integrated Download System: It's something like the repositorium but instead open topics to announce our free creations we go to the Download Section and post our model in the best area we want (Characters, cars, houses, etc) and then we can choose it better by a list... PI: I don't think that it is necessary but would be a good thing.
Faster Challenges: SMCs and MMCs are faster to finish and when I say that it's the whole process (Time to model in MMC, voting in both MMC and SMC, Maximum days of SMC, etc), it makes the challenges faster and one option to impeachment the challenge if he is too boring like this SMC it's about the ground let's fun! I know that it almost don't happen but some are boring and that's true! PI: I agree with some points, but I think is good this way is now.
Blogs: Some 3D forums provides blogs to all members, others just for the best and more Actives members the blogs are in general to 3D images, tutorials, 3D world, some personal things, cool ideas, etc... PI: I think this a good mode to incentive the activity and help.
Prize Scale: This is an idea from caligari and others. As we know we already have a scale but it's based in the number of posts and a good example it's me, I post a lot but even who posts just 30 times and in this 30 times help 30 person he is better than me that post craps sometimes, the Prize Scale will provide some special things that ( if it happens) the moderators will choose... PI: I just think this is a good Idea
A lot of sections and subsections: Instead just those thread (Announcements, General Discussion, etc) we open a lot of other thread of CG world and subsections. PI: I think it's confuses things but opens a lot of new subjects.
Extend to various 3D softs: Talk be focused in 3DMax, Maya, Lightwave beside Truespace, blender, vue and others that we are focused now. PI: Just two words, It Sucks!
Chat to tech support: In some cases a chat is the best thing to resolve a problem so some forums have an special area for chats, but it have a lot of problems like spammers and others so it's better open first a topic about help and if is the case give a pass to the chat are or something like that. PI: It's a hard thing to do but if it enter in action will be a great thing
Great Community/Helpful and active: They need to talk ev... Aargh, wait! We already reach this and we are the best at this
Fell free to comment and add more examples.
Pool: In the pool you can vote 3 times, I don't know if you can vote in the same thing you has before but please vote right, one vote per example and at max 3 examples, ok? I don't add the last because we already have and the improves don't depends on moderators but on us!
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, we really need to get our traffic up of course we can't make Advertising but if you have a site put a banner to this site, we have a banner already? PI: You need to try every way to bring more traffic, in the Forums Requests a post telling about a way to increase the forum's visits... I think we need to see and validate anything!
so I think this topic has no power anymore, the portfolio idea (the most voted) will located a lot of virtual space at the server and how you said here money and time are precious and don't need to be wasted with futile things, but if somehow Prodigy and Steinie receive a one million donate I would say that everything here could be implemented 
