Thanks for those links, and I have had a quick look. My idea was for a small discussion club, initially for low cost cryptos with potential. I have set up a basic framework on my economic survival site -
http://wiseaccountant.com/survival/Don't make the same mistake as bitcointalk and set up a forum on the completely outdated simplemachines platform.
Not the worst mistake theymos has made, what's that wisper I hear... oh yeah epochetalk and however much he ended up forking out for that.
In fact, I quite like smf it's quite a slick piece of software (a little shoddy but it's free)... Patch it and release your own SMFB (the B stands for better fyi).