Does anyone know a mod that would allow you to use Word-esque keyboard shortcuts for bold, italics, and underline (+ others?) as vBulletin does?

I don't know such a mod. If you find an appropriate mod, I could install it.

However, I'm not convinced that these mods should be our top priority. As I understand it, you need to create a good site to attract people, but you need to attract people otherwise the site is no use. And I think, at the moment, we need to put more effort into the second part of that equation than the first: we should attract members. Not necessarily by short term measures such as advertisements or anything, but by providing some content that will tell people what utilitarianism is and to help people complete their school projects on it, by creating video content affiliated with Felicifia on youtube, by getting other webrings and websites to link to Felicifia, etc.

Just my 2 cents

Agree that mods aren't hugely important, but I think it's better to improve the forum then attract members than to do it in the reverse order. That said, I think it's perfectly good enough for us to get on with spreading the word. It's the usual time constraints that are holding me back at the moment, but I'm hoping to dedicate a set amount of time a week to FF from now on, so we can at least keep things moving.

I think the first place to start is webrings and the like (do actual webrings still exist any more?). If you want to create YouTube content that would be great, but I haven't got the technology, the ability to use it if I did, or any idea how to make a good video!