What do you look for in a forum community?

[King]

For me there are a couple of things.
Theme, Activity and finally moderation.
I am not a huge fan of moderation. Over moderation always turns me off.
If i cant disagree with someone without the ban hammer or edits on threads then i just up and leave.
Thankfully SF supports all of those needs for me
Great theme, quite active and the staff here are cool.

And to add to what you were saying about moderation, don't you just hate forums with 50 odd posts and 8 members. 6 Of which are staff members. Too many inexperienced administrators give out staff positions too lightly these days. Little do they know that you don't need staff at all for at least the first couple of weeks (depending on your development rate). I think it's just a 'I have the power to do this, so I'm gonna' thing.