Perception is everything; it doesn't matter what is, but instead what the site's visitors perceive.yes well thats only the admins you know of
again, you are misinformed.
This forum is running on vBulletin 3.8.7 which was the last of version vBulletin 3 so there are no more updates.
Also vBulletin is a PAID licence forum, NOT a free "one click install" from Softaculous or Fantastico.
Let me ask you this: Would keep doing work with a corporation if the board of directors left the company for the managers and department leads to run? Don't get me wrong, I am not going to stop posting here if the moderators are doing a good job of policing, but there are many tasks involved with a forum that require admin access to complete.
Forum Global Settings - Huge # Sub Sections
Style/Template Modification
Language/Phrase Manager
Moderator Assignment/Permission Adjust
Changing of User Title/Rank/Rep/Infractions/Signature/Avatar SETTINGS
Managing Updates (Security Patches & Plugins/Addons)
Board Maintenance
If the admins are not active on the forum are they actively ensuring that their script versions stay up to date and compliant with new versions of server software that their host installs? What about patches released to prevent security breaches?
The vbulletin script is always kept up to date, there have been no recent security patches. I will make an effort to login more frequently though.
vBulletin eBulletin
http://www.vbulletin.com/
March 29th, 2011
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I couldn't agree more, we gave it a test drive and unstable, resource hog was the verdict, certainly not worth the cost of a licence. And that was on a VPS with VB4 only running on it, with only half a dozen people allowed access to the test setup.having used vbulletin 4, it was rubbish,
... and vbulletin 5 looks even [worse?] so far,