Gauging interest - Big boards but not big boards

[MrEyes]

Unfortunately for the concious me the sub concious me has been thinking again, and it has come up with an idea that it has passed onto the concious me and who I am to ignore me

I am thinking about creating a big-boards.com type site/repository but for any forum regardless of size. In essence a forum administrator/owner would submit their forum (regardless of software) for inclusion in the lists.

Once included site users can then view stats, for example:

• Most members
• Most threads
• Most posts
• Latest additions
• Top movers

Stats would be refreshed by periodically querying the site for the information (for supported forums (i.e. vbulletin, phpbb, ipb, smf etc), so as part of the signup process it would be necessary to put a small file on the server. This file would also serve to verify that the person signing up actually owns the site (like Google webmaster tools)

In addition to this forums will be categorised (like dmoz) and can also be keyword tagged (only by the owner). This means that that others can use these tools to find forums they are interested in.

It would also be possible for site users to find "similar sites" by either tags or stats, i.e. show me all sites that have more or less the same members/posts/threads/subjects as me.

And finally there would be a forum behind it all where members can exchange forum administration hints and tips.

So the question, if this existed would you use it? If not why not? What else could it have? Of what I have described what shouldn't it have.

One last thing, there will be no payments to get your site listed.