[mlthmp]

Hey guys.

I'm an administrator on smallball.org we're a community for an online baseball/soccer game. Anyway, in my time in the community we've phpbb2, SMF, and now VB (although I wasn't an administrato in the phpbb2 days) I can honestly say that in the short time we've used Vbulletin our members have been more active compared to SMF and phpbb.

First off, I've noticed people feel "safer" using our forums now because they feel VB's security is better. Also, of course they enjoy the new additions and features when compared to SMF.

When someone is searching around on the internet.. I fully believe that when they see a community site running software like VB (meaning paid, and not free) I believe the tend to gravitate towards that.. Almost like they can see the effort people put into that community to actually pay for something.

Anyway.. I've never liked phpbb2 or 3.. I have to admit I do love SMF but neither of those can touch vBulletin.