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paintball
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forum.
General
PbNation is an English language
vBulletin
vBulletin is a proprietary Internet forum software package sold by MH Sub I, LLC doing business as vBulletin (formerly Jelsoft Enterprises and vBulletin Solutions). It is written in PHP and uses a MariaDB or MySQL database server. Similar pro ...
v3.6.2
paintball
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forum, which includes paintball field and store directory, a collection of product reviews, a
consumer-to-consumer
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paintball equipment marketplace, a paintball industry news section, and a paintball
video content sharing site – all content is user generated. Although the site is focused on the sport of
paintball
Paintball is a competitive sport, competitive team sport, team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called Paintball equipment#Paintballs, paintballs that b ...
, it also hosts a large "Small Talk" section where paintball players discuss topics that are not directly paintball related.
Splat Magazine awarded PbNation the 2007 "Paintball Web Site of the Year" and credits PbNation for having "played a larger role in the expansion of paintball knowledge than practically any other source in history."
SplatXD awarded PbNation the "Paintball Website of the Year" and said, "For as big as our sport is, our media for the most part is poorly produced, has extremely limited reach and does nothing to expand the visibility of the game. PbNation not only smashes all those limitations, they get more visitors per month than practically all of other forms of paintball media combined. With content that is almost 100% user-driven, they've created a community unlikely to ever be challenged in scope or scale." In 2008, the site was credited as having more traffic than all other paintball websites combined.
According to
Forbes
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, PbNation is the "number one paintball fan site", and the Chicago Tribune called it the "ultra popular paintball website" and listed becoming involved in PbNation as number one in their "Tips for Going Pro" about becoming a professional paintball player. Press Enterprises cites PbNation as "the leading paintball forum, helping facilitate everything from equipment reviews to discussions on the world's best paintballers to the organization of games."
In May of 2011, PBNation was acquired by CrowdGather. In June of 2014, CrowdGather sold PBNation to
TorStar
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owned VerticalScope, who are the current owners of the forum.
Users
Registration is free
and users with free accounts have access to standard features such as forum posting,
private message
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s, B/S/T access. Users paying a subscription fee are called Annual Supporting Members (ASM) and gain access to extra features such as increased
Private message
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(PM) capacity, larger
avatar
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, access to a private forum, no wait between posts, and free Gold Ups.
Small Talk
One of the largest forums on the site dedicated to off topic discussion. Small talk brings in a large amount of new users. The administrators frequently talk of "nuking" this forum, but fear shutting this section down will spread the immaturity to other sections.
See also
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List of Internet forums
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References
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External links
PbNation
Sport Internet forums
Paintball-related media