The affero system allows your community members to be
recognized for the Authorship of each post they make via ratings comments
and donations made on their behalf. These donations can go to the causes they
care about including your vb board.
The reputation of each individual can follow them to any affero integrated
forum or wherever they interact on the web such as email, blogs and web
pages. For forums, all the community member has to do is join affero and
place their affero username in the Affero box on that bulletin boards
registration/profile page.
Take a look at this affero integrated VB as an example;
http://www.helponthe.net
You can also visit http://www.affero.net/bbsteps.html to learn what steps you
need to take to integrate your board with affero. If you have any questions
you can email them at info@affero.com or visit their forum at
http://forum.affero.net
here is an example of a rate an donate page
http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=trickykid
and a reputation page
http://svcs.affero.net/user-history.php?u=trickykid
If you would like to learn more about affero the company you can visit
their website at http://www.affero.com and the open source project at
http://www.affero.org
You can download the 2.30 vb tarball from affero here