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Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

But "the software is crap" isn't especially informative. And it's generally the first answer given to a question that wasn't necessarily asked. The first thing you have to do is figure out what the user wants out of vB5. Them tell him exactly why that won't work. It's not a matter of being "nice" to vB5. It's a matter of actually making the info useful to the user asking the question, and not having to say "here we go again" every time the subject comes up.

This is a very good point which I had not personally considered, but my first thought is that I see most people who install it no matter what they want to get out of the software regret installing vBulletin 5 after the fact. If they installed it on a live board then its a can of worms that a lot of them are stuck with or they migrate completely out of vBulletin to another software altogether.