[Thomas]

Hi Prowess, With respect to your questions I have tried to answer them below:

Originally Posted by Prowess

Does SMF offer customizable templates

Yes, you can customize the templates in SMF

and the options to give a rating system to the poster so that say one poster is good at providing information I could allow to give them a reputation

SMF has a Karma System, you can applaud and smite to a user to give or take Karma points from them.

such as a thank you button for posters to use

There is also a Mod, through which you can just Thank the user and avoid unnecessary spam messages such as "", "Thanks", etc in the thread.

and does it offer HTML use to posters?

You can allow the users some basic HTML codes in SMF such as

< b >, < u >, < i >, < s >, < em >, < ins >, < del >
< a href = " " >
< i m g s r c = " " a l t = " " / >
< b r / > , < h r / >
< p r e > , < b l o c k q u o t e >

Had to include spaces between the codes, as it was not allowing to post them.