>Treating commenting systems like a commodity scream "I'm an average website", or "I'm not a technology site". Depends on the focus of the site. Fact is, packa

>Treating commenting systems like a commodity scream "I'm an average website", or "I'm not a technology site". Depends on the focus of the site. Fact is, packages like VBulletin are very good at what they do, and I find I generally have a more pleasant experience on VB/phpBB powered sites that behave like other forums I visit than I do on sites that try to reinvent the wheel and end up lacking basic functionality just to be different.