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I'd say it's a waste of time if you're not integrating it with existing social networks. Tangler was this attempt at making a shitload of forums about everything and it's a fucking joke.
When you make a forum where you can't import your facebook friends, can't import your digg friends, can't message people and have it show up in your email as well, and just want to make a forum about a specific subject then you're wasting time.
If you're not into building magic databases that integrate with Open Social, Open ID, Facebook Connect, Digg etc.. then you should wait for open social standards makers to get that shit together. I'm sure it will be much easier to put together forums or chatrooms through Facebook networking than it does now through website linking.
I'd say anyone who is trying to make money from building online communities instead of building a codebase for a new type of forum sucks. Even if you succeed and make money you won't be contributing anything useful to humanity.