I’ve been super busy with real life lately, and a lot of internet things feel by the wayside quickly. Email got checked less, and responded to even less. I stopped reading most of the message boards I visit for a while, and even went a few days without making any money online. One of the things I wasn’t doing this past week was patrolling the message board I run over at GeekySpeaky as much. And yes, during that time, we had a few spammers stop by to post about their nonsense. I love having my forum, but I hate the maintenance part of it. I run the front side and the back side, so when it breaks, or something doesn’t work right, it’s on me to fix things and keep my community happy. If you don’t want the hassle, an alternative to what I do would be to use GoBoardz free forums to create a forum for your blog, website, or your friends. It’s simple, it’s straight forward, and it’s maintenance free for you. It’s got a lot of nice features too, considering it’s completely free:

• Email Notifications
• You can embed videos in posts
• Avatars for your profile
• Upload pictures to share via Photobucket
• Digg topics and posts
• Forums allow Del.icio.us Linking
• RSS feeds for active topics (what a great way to stay on top of your forum!)
• Your very own subdomain - easy for remember!

Set things up in a matter of minutes, and leave the behind the scenes work to someone else!