First off, excellent work here, fellas.
A pioneering suggestion for you. What I would like to see is a community that's a little more exclusive. Some way for regular users and valued contributors of the forum to kick out users that just plain suck. And I don't mean ban camp, I mean, "you suck, therefore you're gone". Sure, mods will ban for violating TOS. And there's the ignore feature. The problem with ignore is that even with that on a user, good threads get hijacked by said ignored user's douchey comments. Part of the reason, in addition to the censorship, the other board is now The Suck, and I don't post alot there (Rodneys360s) is that there are simply too many dbags and idiots over there now.
Some may see this as 'censorship' in and of itself, but I'm not talking about someone who constantly has opposing views to everyone, likes to say fuck a lot, or posts a pic of lovely hiney. That's all good. I'm talking about those that just plain suck as posters. You know the type, the grobeskinners of the world. They don't violate the TOS, they just blow.
Obviously, this could limit the ability for you guys to monetize this site due to fewer eyeballs, if that's a goal, which is understandable. Don't know a good solution yet (maybe a nomination and vote by users with a high enough rep? Maybe once a user has x number of 'ignores', he gone?), but just a thought.