Well, put it simply, I wanted to tell people the nature and audience of the forum.
Ok. thanks for your suggestions. I will try and see if any astronomy sites are willing to accept my offers. Actually done that to quite a few of them but not much response.
Custom features? Well, first, would like to try that sometimes but am at the mercy of the free forum hoster. It depends on whether they felt necessary to install the features or not. And I am new to this forum thing so was thinking of testing the response of the crowd first before investing on a real domain and web hosting package. Maybe that is also one of the reason why people might not trust us. But its a trade off between maintenance, cost, time, effort, trust, flexibility, etc.
Well, the forum here did not restrict me to promote. So, why not. Its free.
Horoscope is not science and I don't believe in it. I try to keep discussions scientific. Of course on and off we would digress to non science stuff like religion, our daily lives, astronomy legends, etc. But I try to keep them minimal and objective and neutral. Still trying to balance.