Hi MrDoubts,

Thanks for stopping by. I say that MBL is visit and stats focused is because of two primary things. First is the way they promote themselves through the offering of their stats tracking capabilities. Second is simply the layout and paths through the site focus on visits rather than discussions, ratings, reviews or any of the other potential options they could have gone with. Please understand that I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. Also of the three MBL is the one I have the least experience with, which is why I have not reviewed it at all yet. I am actually thinking of asking a friend to do a guest post reviewing MBL.

Now I understand what you are saying with "Do we need two Wikipedias or two White Houses?", but I would submit that the more appropriate question would be "do we need Ford and Chevey" or "do we need FedEx and UPS". When you re-frame the question this way I think you have a truer perspective. Also I would point out the number of people just in the comments here who have declared a strong preference or even exclusive use of just one of the services.

I would not outright recommend joining all three. In fact I tell people to pick the one that feels like home and concentrate on it. That said there are advantages to blonging to all three as well.