[BamaStangGuy]

Since I have been PermaBanned on vBulletin.com because they didn't like my opinion on Internet Brands I guess I'll have to post over here.

Internet Brands is ruining vBulletin. There are so many reasons to avoid using vBulletin due to Internet Brands, ESPECIALLY if you make a living off of running forums like I do or just care about the company you are purchasing software not having a ridiculous advantage to suppress your forum.

I'll be damned if I am going to purchase a forum software from Internet Brands when they are out there buying up my competition. I'm not going to suggest features, provide feedback and fund Internet Brands so that they can better position themselves to compete against me.

I do not trust Internet Brands to put vBulletin and it's customers before themselves and the forums they own.

Internet Brands cares about one thing: Making money. They make their money via forums and now that they own vBulletin they have inside access to tailor vBulletin to their needs and not the majority of vBulletin customers.

It was made very obvious that money was their only objective when they rushed in that last minute feature for vBulletin 3.8. You know that Google Adsense integration that made them money for every new person that signed up for Adsense.

Give me a break. That isn't a useful feature.

Internet Brands has now ran off the majority of the old staff.

I will not buy one more vBulletin license while Internet Brands is in charge of vBulletin. I'd rather take my experience with running forums to another forum software and become a contributor to someone who actually cares about the software and not tailoring it for the needs of their sites so they can improve their stock price.

I'm just waiting for Ray Morgan to come over here and start ruining vBulletins excellent mod community now. Sadly, I have too much money and time into my biggest site so changing to another forum software is not an option.