[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I got the impression, from reading this thread in particular, and from reading the site in general, that anyone who get's vB5 is either inexperienced or ignorant or some variation of "not smart". I don't get that. A year or so ago, someone on TAZ suggested I keep my opinions to myself because I didn't have a board with millions of members and threads, like he did. I thought that was pretty tasteless, and expressed it as such.

I've only been back a week, and it seems like if vB5 gets mentioned once, it becomes a pile on. I'm not saying it isn't in anyone's rights to do that. I just wonder why it has to happen every thread. And I wonder why users who've decided to go with it should have their motives or intellect (or website) impuned.

Absolutely my thoughts as well. It happens on other websites too. The same group of people seem to have made it their business to insult, belittle and demean anyone who refuses to acknowledge a certain viewpoint as being the only possible truth.

There have even been cases of people signing up to customer sites and haranguing the owner about how awful vBulletin is and how they must be stupid to use it, etc.

It's really quite disturbing at times.

There's plenty of software I don't like but I don't question the intelligence of people who use it. Different solutions work for different people.