Apologies if my feedback appeared negative.. I can sympathize with the reasons you have locked things down based on my experiencing owning and running several large message forum centered sites which also used VB and had a collective user base above 100k members.

On that note, if it makes sense, please shoot me an email as I would certainly like to share some of my lessons learned. If not, hopefully I can at least be granted access to some of the core features of VB so I may take better advantage of learning from members on the site!