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Bravenet
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- Simple and easy to use
- Have used their board for several years now and have had very few problems with it.
- Have not shown any questionable ads (so far)
- If your looking for other web-tools as well (guestbook, post cards, polls, etc) they have a good selection--it can be convenient to have all your web tools through the same site.
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- The ads (of course, you can get out of this by paying) are getting more annoying.
- You can only have board per account.
- Though you can add your own graphics, they must be stored on another site (must be remote linked).
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Free (ads)
Den of Love(pictured)
Poetry Deep
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EZboard
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- They provide you with various graphical themes to choose from, all very nice.
- You can have more than one forum
- I really like their layout options (though more choices can mean a more time consuming set-up)
- They have a very active community
- They have a community chest feature where users can donate to your account, which means if you are popular enough you could become ad free without paying for it yourself.
You can move and edit posts, not just delete them.
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- The ads can be especially annoying, obtrusive, and have bordered on offensive. These vary and are worse some times than others. (Of course, you can get out of this by paying).
- Though you can add your own graphics, they must be stored on another site (must be remote linked). This is not as bad, though, because of the theme sets they offer.
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Free (ads)
One Body & One Spirit
Online Events
Paid (no ads)
Ponderer's Guild (pictured)
Pondering Perspectives
Crazy Old Wizard's Domain
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Yahoo Groups
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- You can store graphics on their site (they don't need to be remote linked).
- They have other features like a calendar, linklist, and photo page that members can post to.
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Dislikes
- The ads are particularly hideous. You click on a post and it makes you view an ad before you can read it.
- The format is not very customizable.
- At one point, without warning anyone, yahoo reset everyones's preferences so that would get Yahoo's spam, even if they had specified they didn't want any e-mail. (Hotmail did the same thing around the same time).
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Free (ads)
Online Events(pictured)
The Writer's Nook
Peculiar Christian Poets
Literary Devices
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Poetry Deep 
