Turn off obsolete vbSEO linkbacks?

[tpearl5]

What do you think? With the release of DBSEO, and it not including the option for linkbacks at all, stating that they are actually bad for SEO at this point, would you disable vbSEO linkbacks all together?

I realize linkbacks/pingbacks are an old old SEO strategy, but are they really hurting anything by being there besides the extra loading time to load the data?

[final kaoss]

How much activity do you see on your forum regarding pingbacks/linkbacks? If little to none, then why not disable it? Likewise, if you find it's drawing in a lot of activity, then by all means keep it enabled.