pre-purchase questions
 

Hi

I admin run an EzBoard at http://www.socal-hockey.com

I am sick and tired of the security restrictions put on the admin - I have no rights at all to view any information about my members.

I am hoping that a switch to another BB software will allow me more control over the security. I read the entire manual and still have these questions:

1. Can I see every member's email address? For that matter, can I see the entire contents of the registration screen? Can I see their password too?

2. Can I reset their password if they forget it? Or, as a "punishment", can I change their password and make them contact me to get it back?

3. Can I force a private message on someone, as the admin? I suppose I could just email them - but the problem with my current board is that users get a bogus hotmail addy, then just use it to complete the registration, then dump it. I need a way to contact them to let them know that their behaviour must stop or they are history.

4. I noticed that I can make a few custom fields in the registration screen. Can I make those fields required? I am thinking of requiring some other piece of information such as phone number or team name (this is a hockey league).

5. Can the custom information be made only visible to the admin and not mods or other users?

Non - security related questions:

6. Since I have some user's and mods with many, many posts, can I preserve the number of posts by manually setting the number even though I they haven't posted that qty?

7. This one is probably a for sure NO! but why not ask!

Can I import my EzBoard??

Thanks everyone for helping out. I am pretty sure that vBulletin is the best product out their, but I need these features to take the next step. My EzBoard has 2,000,000 hits!!!

-Dave

1) Yes, you can view their email addresses, but cannot view their password.
2) Yes
3) Not sure, but I would assume so
4) With some modification, probably
5) Not sure
6) Yes, you can modify their post count
7) I heard of one before, but have no idea about the details to it

(4) Yes you can, with no modification. :)
(5) Same as above.
(7) Yup.

7. Note that the EZBoard import is for posts only, not members.

Does the EzBoard import work through the public interface?

I realize it picks up the postings, but does it include:

the structure,
the dates,
the polls,
etc

Does anyone have an example of an imported EzBoard?

This really isn't a huge deal, but I would like to keep some of the stuff we have over there...

Thanks everyone!