Advantages of the generator meta tag?

Does the "<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.8.6" />" bare any benefit?

You can see that google now gives post info on forums (last post, total replies etc), does it use the generator tag to gather this info? Is it recommended to remove or should we keep it?

It's no biggy either way, Just wondering ^^

There are literally 100+ meta tags, 75 are useless to anything but 'signing' a page as something.
META Tag Snob: The META tag list

It's best use is probably for vb themselves to see how many forums are running X version by doing a generator query. I removed mine. its 30 chars of bandwidth on every page load that i don't need to pay for

Where/how does one go about removing the "<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.8.6" />" tag?

It's near the top of the headerinclude template

Thanks. Are there any other pointless things like this that can be removed? The number of queries in vB4 is outrageous so anything that shaves down load time, I'm all ears for

You can see that google now gives post info on forums (last post, total replies etc), does it use the generator tag to gather this info?

Yes, this is very annoying. I actually deleted dates from my posts for this very reason. Might not be the most user friendly option, but oh well. I don't think there's a generator tag to gather this info though, but maybe I'm wrong? If there is one, please tell me where so I can chop that baby out.