There are many Internet forums you can download for your website, and you will find when you put one up other people who are interested in the subject matter will come and discuss things on your website.
However, as the number of users grow, so too will the number of hackers trying to break into the website along with the number of comment spammers.
Comment spammers are those people that join the conversation and rather than talk about the subject matter put links to a website that have nothing to do with the topic in an effort to build links and again click through traffic.
Worse, many of these comment spammers post links to pornography websites, and even illegal activity websites such as online gambling.
Obviously, you don't want this stuff on your website, as it has nothing to do with the subject matter for your Internet forum.
If you're going to put up an Internet forum on your website you are going to need someone to help moderate it, someone that actually spends some time with it.
Trying to be a passive website owner probably won't work once you put up an Internet forum.
The hackers are everywhere, and they take sheer delight into breaking into your code and destroying your forum or bulletin board.
If you find someone to be a moderator, you must be careful that they don't engage in that "tit-for-tat arguments" that often happen on Internet forums.
Because if they had flamed someone, it could come back and haunt your website, creating all kinds of enemies out there that you don't even know, or were not even aware that they were upset.
Indeed, I sure hope you will please consider all this, because this article has come from experience.
So please think on it.