[Marco van Herwaarden]

This rule does not disallow bumping older threads, it only request to "Try and avoid replying....".

We do give our members freedom to reply to such a thread but we ask them to use common sense and not bump old threads in which the information is outdated.

On the older (3.0 and older) vBulletin releases information was often limited to a single vB version. With the newer 3.5 and higher versions we had a long period where information would be valid spanning many vBulletin versions. Once vB4 comes out, most information posted on pre 4.0 will probably not apply anymore, so replying to a thread on 3.8 with a question intended for 4.0 will probably be frowned upon as that would only confuse people.

You also reported a post that was a reply to a bit older thread about making backups. Making backups is the same on almost all vBulletin versions, external tools also are mostly still the same, so the information in such a thread is still valid and accurate and we have no problems if someone replies to such a thread regarding his current situation.

PS I can not find a warning or infracation in your profile.