[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Maplewoods

Good question!

There are many types of Forum Software available. For those of use who who are very familiar with VB, it is a dead giveaway anyway and most of us can immediately recognize that it's vB.

If you are running a Gaming or other very Popular type Forum, it wouldn't matter that much, because there are most likely, thousands such Forums, already.

However if you have a very unique and original idea or subject that your Forum is about, which would undoubtedly spark a lot of completion from people who will want to copy your unique idea, - at least it may slow them down a little. If and when they may choose to "copy", what you are doing, they will likely be using, "Other" inferior Forum Software.

The purpose is, to slow down a little the average user (99.99% who are not that familiar with every type of Forum Software), who may want to compete.

vB Charges a lot $ for this option, if it didn't serve any purpose, no one would pay the $ for the Brand Free Version.



I one tried a "Gloabl Search and Replace" and it messed up parts of the entire forum, because the word "vBulletin" is often used to call Databases or other files that make various parts of vB work.

Then after reinstalling the entire vB all over again, (Today) I am now doing it much more carefully. I did find many of them, but not the 2 I am asking about.

To play it safe, I searched for the text and phrase "vBulletin", then I Changed one at a time to a capital V "VBulletin", to see if I got the right one.

Unfortunately nothing turned up yet.

I said phrase not file.