What do you wish you had known about vBulletin when you first got started?

[GeorgeKao]

Hello Everyone,

First of all, thanks to all those who are active in helping others out here! You are building good karma

I'm looking into vBulletin vs other options such as Ning.com ...and Wordpress forums (haven't begun researching those possibilities yet)

* Is there anything you wish you'd known when you were first researching forum software?

* What Wordpress forum plugin would you recommend as good alternative to vBulletin?

And now some specific questions about vBulletin:

* Can it be easily configured to have different types of Member sorting... ideally sorting members by how active they have been for a particular month ... or how many compliments they've received? (can people give "thumbs up" to each other and help with their member ranking?)

* If I install vBulletin on www.DomainA.com and in the future, need to switch to www.DomainB.com is the transition easy? Will the forum permalinks still work?

Thanks for any insights you can offer...