[March 2008] BOTM Nomination Thread

[Guest190829]

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of March.

Please note the BOTM Rules here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/info.php?do=botm

Nominations will be accepted until the 29th of February.

When nominating please post the site name, URL to the forum, a short description what makes your board stand out from default vBulletin, and a reason for nomination that will motivate others to second the nomination. If the staff feels that a nomination post is too promotional it will be edited accordingly.

Any sites without a name, URL, description and reason for nomination will NOT be entered into the poll. Please ensure that your nomination is in the format:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sample Nomination
Site Name: vBulletin.org
URL: www.vbulletin.org (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/../) - this must be clickable
Description: Official vBulletin Modifications Site
Reason for Nomination: Not Nominated. This is an example nomination.

When seconding sites, please ensure that you use the same post for the maximum of 3 allowed seconds. Any seconds not located in your first seconding post will not be counted. Please also ensure that you quote the nomination post you are seconding in your post (Use Multi-Quote Option if you are nomination multiple boards). If there is no name or URL provided then the post will be ignored when the nominations are counted.

Also, please make sure that you are seconding a forum that has already been nominated by its forum owner. Any seconds for a forum that has not been nominated yet will be counted as null and void.

Please posts only nominations or seconds, no "Thank you" posts are needed, they clutter the thread and will be deleted.

Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Danny.VBT (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?action=getinfo&username=Danny.VBT).

Best of luck to all nominees!

[Guest190829]

Notice:

We have been lenient with some formatting rules regarding seconds - now all seconds must QUOTE the nomination they are seconding as well as posting all their seconds in a SINGLE post. Any seconds not doing this will be ignored!

[CLF]

Site name: Capper's Lobby

Site URL: www.capperslobby.com

Description: If you like to talk sports and sports betting, and you love to give your opinion, then Capper's Lobby is the right place. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, horse racing, other sports... NFL, NCAAF, CFL, MLB, NBA, NCAAB, WNBA, FIBA, FIFA, UEFA, MLS, NHL...

Reason for Nomination: Brand new but soon to be one of the best sports handicapping forums on the web. Also, we would love to hear what others have to say about it. Still working on some things.
Thanks for consideration. ;)

[Enclave]

Site Name: Australian Travel Guide

Site URL: http://www.next89.com

Description: more than just your average travel guide – a great place to plan your trip Downunder and find a few mates before you even leave home.

Reason: I included the vbulletin board in the whole site and design at all by my self! Hope that is enough... :)

Thanks
J?r?me

[Playa82]

Site Name: Crackmuzik-GFX-Elite
URL: http://crackmuzik-gfx-elite.de
Description: GFX-Site and normal Community about Sigs, Wallpapers, Banners, Designing and many other Sections.
Reason for Nomination: I want to grow my Forum, and maybe this is a good way to see if somebody like it or not...
+ i want to start a big Graphic Community

[ccaldwell]

Site Name: ncrmc.org
URL: http://www.ncrmc.org
Description: NCRMC offers the Mustang and Ford enthusiast many activities year round. Some examples include an annual club display at the World of Wheels car show, a winter party, a summer picnic, parades, car cruises, Spring and Fall All Ford shows, swap meet spaces at the annual All Ford swap meet and car show in Carlisle PA, and restoration and judging seminars. Members are also encouraged to attend car cruise nights and other shows in their local area.
Reason for Nomination: I believe that this site is what vbulletin was designed to do and that is to be a social site for users that have common interests. I would like to see this site nominated for the March Board of the Month.

[lane]

Site Name: ServerCommand
URL: www.ServerCommand.org (http://servercommand.org)
Description: ServerCommand is a community resource for web hosting, dedicated servers, game servers and much more. ServerCommand prides itself on our large publc download section that provides many files that are needed by todays web hosting and gaming enthuists. Along with our download section we also have many tutorials that can help with every day issues for your web site, game servers, etc.
Reason for Nomination: I am nominating our community to receive an overall evaluation from the outside world as to experience and impression our community.

[vitoreis]

Site Name: Portal dos Cl?ssicos
URL: www.portalclassicos.com
Description: Portuguese portal about classic Cars
Reason for Nomination: Biggest forum about classics in portuguese.

[WFZ]

Site Name: Wrestling Forums
URL: www.wrestling-forums.net (http://www.wrestling-forums.net)
Description: Wrestling Discussion Forum
Reason for Nomination: I thought I would nominate Wrestling Forums because it is a great discussion forum for wrestling fans, it is only 3 months old and allready has 5,000 members and over 9,000 posts.
The members are great and are really friendly.

[bela-meaad]

Site name: Saudi Stock Market

Site URL: www.ssmarket.net (http://www.ssmarket.net)
Forum URL: www.ssmarket.net/forum.html (http://www.ssmarket.net/forum.html)
Description: Its an Arabic Forum & its all about the Stock Market in Saudi Arabia, *** Promotional text removed *** :p

Reason for Nomination: Its a Nice Design & Nice Coding
imazing Tabs changing with the pages you exploring, when you click on the first button from the right will takes you to the homepage & that button will convert to red color as you are watching the home page & changing when ever you click on the buttons again.
The Logo is professional two arrows RED & Green & thats mean Stocks Arrow, the Climber is the sign of saudi arabia.
The Login Box is imazing its Red in color when you loged out & changing to Green whe you login.
Width is Fixed & the Reply , Views & Moderators section joined togather & when you click on the moderator section you can see the moderators names.
Whos online is cool specially with members names & the color they are using.

if you like the site vote for me
if not then vote again :D

Thanks for consideration.

[gbox master]

site url www.gboxforum.com
forum www.gboxforum.com/gb

forum is all about a special satelite receiver and its uniqeu functions
what is so special
forum is a converted forum from phpbb
a phpbb style converted to vBulletin
a portal that is not standart can be switch off and on by users
many nice hacks/mods installed
all styles are based on black with small color modifications
like new postings have a color
links are colored when touched with the mouse

all this is done by a noob with no design or it background
i am not shure that the ads on the forum are in conflict with the rules
installed version is vB 3.6.8 PL2

[bxbigt]

Site Name:
EliteForums
URL:
http://www.elite-forums.com
Description:
A Community for All.
Reason for Nomination:
Four months old, and the site has grown to 1900+ members. We have a little of everything, Online movies, Cellular discussion, A Casino , A Arcade , the best Psp section i seen anywhere and much much more. A lot of hard work, and an excellent staff, makes it a great place to visit.

[cookiepants]

Site Name: Sewing Mamas Online

Forum URL: Sewing Mamas Forum Home (http://www.sewingmamas.com/b)

HomePage URL: Sewing Mamas Home (http://www.sewingmamas.com)

Description: Sewing Mamas focuses on niche market. It exists to bring the home sewist a wealth of free sewing information, ideas, patterns and support with their sewing endeavors. With over 6000 members and a large percentage of paying sponsors, we are still growing every day. We are an internet based sewing circle where we chat about everything

Reason for Nomination: I visit here often, yet rarely see large sites focused on women's needs and issues. I think it would be nice that a board with 99.9% female members and all female admin be considered. We don't reject men, in fact we do have a couple of male members. They just don't want to talk about sewing and family as much as we seem to LOL

I'm not a programmer or coder, basically a stay at home mom, but have managed to get the site's graphics a unique look, and foster a sense of home with my members. We should be in the black this year which gives me a great deal of happiness and a feeling of accomplishment.

[christian8a]

Site Name: MyLs1.com

Site URL: http://www.myls1.com

Description: Camaro, Corvette, Firebird, GTO and other LSX cars community.
I recently updated our software, and modified all my templates, and turned out like one of the best sites around.

Check it! ;)

Reason for Nomination: You have to check how nice this site is :)
Thanx

Chris___
MyLs1.com Admin

[shaynehammy]

Site Name: The Chief Baboon

HomePage URL: The Chief Baboon (http://www.thechiefbaboon.com)

Forum URL: The Chief Baboon Forums (http://www.thechiefbaboon.com/forums/index.php)

Description: An online community for Zimbabweans (and friends) located all over the world, that have been displaced due to the polictical situation in Zimbabwe.

Reason for Nomination: A realtively young forum that is going from strength to strength. All the hacks are incorporated from Vbulletin.org that work well for our community and are pleasing on the eye. Forum content is everything from political to humour to sport to nostalgic chit chat (I suppose like every other forum out there!). A newbie entry for BOTM but I feel our design and content is of high quality.

Thanks

Shayne

[Almotmaiz.Net]

Site name: Saudi Stock Market

Site URL: www.ssmarket.net (http://www.ssmarket.net/)
Forum URL: www.ssmarket.net/forum.html (http://www.ssmarket.net/forum.html)
Description: Its an Arabic Forum & its all about the Stock Market in Saudi Arabia, *** Promotional text removed *** :p

Reason for Nomination: Its a Nice Design & Nice Coding
imazing Tabs changing with the pages you exploring, when you click on the first button from the right will takes you to the homepage & that button will convert to red color as you are watching the home page & changing when ever you click on the buttons again.
The Logo is professional two arrows RED & Green & thats mean Stocks Arrow, the Climber is the sign of saudi arabia.
The Login Box is imazing its Red in color when you loged out & changing to Green whe you login.
Width is Fixed & the Reply , Views & Moderators section joined togather & when you click on the moderator section you can see the moderators names.
Whos online is cool specially with members names & the color they are using.

[touba]

Site Name : Club Scooter GT (http://www.club-scootergt.com/)

URL : http://www.club-scootergt.com (http://www.club-scootergt.com/)

Description : a french board who has almost 2 years old. Community up to 1900 members and 120.000 posts. Speaking about scooter GT (from 125 to 800cm3).

Reason : it will be a recongizment to our work if club-scootergt.com will be nominated !

hope all of you understand my english :o

Thanks,

[Shane]

Site Name: Battlestar Forum

HomePage URL: Battlestar Forum - www.battlestarforum.com (http://www.battlestarforum.com)

Description: An online community for Battlestar Galaicia fans of the show. Fans from all over the world.

Reason for Nomination: There are many Battlestar forums on the web, however we try to stand out as one of the better forums using vB and incorporating a lot of the show's elements into the design, even the iPhone skin we created for the site. we are also a very tight community.

I been getting better at designing vB graphics, and this is one of my best works that I have done.

Thanks,

Shane

[hydn]

Site Name: PinStack.com
URL: www.pinstack.com (http://www.pinstack.com)
Forum URL: http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com
Description: BlackBerry user community (300,000 members)
Reason for Nomination: Seeking feedback. Recent redesign - about 30 hacks installed.

[lordtopcat]

Site Name: UrbanMusic2000
URL: www.urbanmusic2000.com/forum
Description: The next era in urban music and fashion discussion forum.
Reason for Nomination: We are a small, but tight community. We have been open for about 6 months and believe we are moving at a steady pace. For these reasons I am nominating us for Board of the Month.

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Site Name: BCMTouring.com

URL: www.bcmtouring.com/forum

Description: BCMTouring is a Road Trip centric travel forum, first and only of its kind in India. Our members belong to diverse age groups and socio-economic backgrounds, yet they are bonded together for their passion for travel and automobiles. It is this passion that initially led me to start BCMTouring in April 2006. Since then we have grown into a flourishing online community of wheel bound 21st century nomads, who eagerly await opportunities to break free from the shackles of responsibility, leaving behind the concrete jungle, to get on their modern day steeds and chariots to explore the length and breadth of India.

Reason for Nomination: Because I feel I owe this nomination to my fellow community members, who are the sole and essence of the community. And because of whom, not single day goes by when I am not enthralled to login to my forums and talk to them again.

[touba]

Site Name: PinStack.com
URL: www.pinstack.com (http://www.pinstack.com)
Forum URL: http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com
Description: BlackBerry user community (300,000 members)
Reason for Nomination: Seeking feedback. Recent redesign - about 30 hacks installed.

I second this one :up:

[Shazz]

Site name: Saudi Stock Market

Site URL: www.ssmarket.net (http://www.ssmarket.net/)
Forum URL: www.ssmarket.net/forum.html (http://www.ssmarket.net/forum.html)
Description: Its an Arabic Forum & its all about the Stock Market in Saudi Arabia, *** Promotional text removed *** :p

Reason for Nomination: Its a Nice Design & Nice Coding
imazing Tabs changing with the pages you exploring, when you click on the first button from the right will takes you to the homepage & that button will convert to red color as you are watching the home page & changing when ever you click on the buttons again.
The Logo is professional two arrows RED & Green & thats mean Stocks Arrow, the Climber is the sign of saudi arabia.
The Login Box is imazing its Red in color when you loged out & changing to Green whe you login.
Width is Fixed & the Reply , Views & Moderators section joined togather & when you click on the moderator section you can see the moderators names.
Whos online is cool specially with members names & the color they are using.

Second

[JVCode]

Site Name: ConsoleCommunity
URL: ConsoleCommunity Forums (http://www.forums.consolecommunity.com)
Description: Gamers from around the world hookup, chat, chill, and game.
Reason for Nomination: Has a great userbase and a lovely warm welcoming feel to it, Nominating because of just that reason, it takes a good userbase to make a good community.

[no mods]

Site Name : Club Scooter GT (http://www.club-scootergt.com/)

URL : http://www.club-scootergt.com (http://www.club-scootergt.com/)

Description : a french board who has almost 2 years old. Community up to 1900 members and 120.000 posts. Speaking about scooter GT (from 125 to 800cm3).

Reason : it will be a recongizment to our work if club-scootergt.com will be nominated !

hope all of you understand my english :o

Thanks,

2nded.

[dethfire]

Site Name : Physics Forums

URL : http://www.physicsforums.com

Description : Quality science discussion. All staff are either professionals or with a masters in a science.

Reason : Unselfish community that helps thousands of students a month with their homework.

[SBlueman]

Site Name: GridironFans.com
URL: http://www.gridironfans.com/
Description: 100% Uncut, 100% Uncensored Football Forums. All The Latest News And Views Around The NFL
Reason for Nomination: We pride ourselves in keeping our members up to date with all the latest news and rumors from around the NFL. We have a staff of dedicated members who are constantly scouring for and posting news. We also try to create a fun atmosphere on the site by incorporating numerous features and add-ons like: vBookie, Casino, ibproarcade, iCash, iShop, Monthly Member Awards and more. We reward our VIP members with hidden forums they can enjoy after reaching post milestones.

[EagleNick]

Site Name: UrbanMusic2000
URL: www.urbanmusic2000.com/forum (http://www.urbanmusic2000.com/forum)
Description: The next era in urban music and fashion discussion forum.
Reason for Nomination: We are a small, but tight community. We have been open for about 6 months and believe we are moving at a steady pace. For these reasons I am nominating us for Board of the Month.

I second this one.

Site Name : Physics Forums

URL : http://www.physicsforums.com (http://www.physicsforums.com/)

Description : Quality science discussion. All staff are either professionals or with a masters in a science.

Reason : Unselfish community that helps thousands of students a month with their homework.

I second this one.

[boogiejoe]

Site Name: ProfessionalDetailer.com

URL: http://www.professionaldetailer.com/

Description: Online gathering site for career based car detailers. Site works as a back office, allowing members to become more productive, efficient and profitable. We provide educational tools, discounts, networking, shop location finder, completed project gallery and member shop promotions.

Reason for Nomination: The concept is to provide shared services for small detailing shops which could otherwise not afford the benefits of a back office. All of our services are free for members who qualify as a professional (career minded) shop. Our site allows the customer to interact with the shop of their choosing.

[dietcokebf2]

Site name: CleverFloat

Site URL: www.cleverfloat.com (http://cleverfloat.com)

Description: CleverFloat is a new freelancer forum for talking about all things freelance, from coding to design.

Reason for Nomination: It just opened today, and it design is one of the best I've seen, you need to check it out to see how pretty it is :)

[njoker555]

Site Name: Gamers Forum

URL: www.Gamers-Forum.com (http://www.gamers-forum.com)

Description: Gaming forum that just hit 900 members and about to hit the milestone of 50,000 posts. Open for over a year and a half and we have come far with an arcade, game reviews, section, and a points system.

Reason for Nomination: I have worked hard on this forum from the start over a year and a half ago. I think it deserves some form of publicity to help us get bigger and better than we already are at the moment.

[TrumpetMaster]

Site Name: TrumpetMaster.com

URL: http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb

Description: The premier trumpet site on the web!

Reason for Nomination: TrumpetMaster.com is a very active niche forum with over 7000 members. Our site has a custom skin and uses mods such as photo post classifieds, Vbadvanced links, Wiki and more to give our registered members and guests the best possible forum experience. Thanks for your consideration!

[Tom_S]

Site Name: Recovery Crossroads
URL: www.recoverycrossroads.com (http://www.recoverycrossroads.com)
FORUM URL: http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/community/cmps_index.php
Description:
Recovery for Alcoholics, Addicts, and anyone with an addiction at Recovery Crossroads offers great information for and a Safe Place in Recovery.
We are a Website that will foster friendships, promote camaraderie and endorse the sharing of knowledge through a foundation that is built on integrity, community involvement, and unity. To unite all types of Recovery who seek to protect and preserve the sacred sanctity of sharing. To encourage sharing recovery and to provide fellowship, both locally and worldwide, and to provide an ever expansive knowledge base of experience, strength, and hope for helping others like us. We will accomplish this by offering a family oriented outlet for the newcomer and veterans alike to not only garner information about their recovery, but will first and foremost; offer the opportunity for its members, and their families, to join in activities that may help them and others.
EDIT
You can login to mine as:
Username: Guest
PW: password
This way you can see everything. You can't post but you can see everything.

Reason for Nomination:
To respectfully show the work of all of the coders who have helped to provide the opportunity for me to build on their abilities and to be able to help give back to the community of those who seek the help they can now find online. I thank all of those who provide the fine mods that gave me the opportunity to build this website.

[ChU v2]

Site Name: PinStack.com
URL: www.pinstack.com (http://www.pinstack.com)
Forum URL: http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com
Description: BlackBerry user community (300,000 members)
Reason for Nomination: Seeking feedback. Recent redesign - about 30 hacks installed.

Second.

[BuRaCh]

Site Name: MMOCC Forum

URL: http://www.mmoccforum.com

Description: MMOCC Forum is a community resource for massive multiplayer online chat communities for developers, administrators, and users of MMOCCs.

Reason for Nomination: It's a good place for people to go if they want to learn about those types of games.

Seconded;)

[Jase2]

Site Name: Tech support Team

URL: www.techsupportteam.org please note: Homepage is under construction, so it would be best to go to our forums for the time being: www.techsupportteam.org/forum/

Description: Providing free computer help & support!

Reason for Nomination: Because we help users with their computer problems for free, as well as providing the latest technology news.

Regards Jason :)

[Daniel]

Site Name: MMOCC Forum

URL: http://www.mmoccforum.com

Description: MMOCC Forum is a community resource for massive multiplayer online chat communities for developers, administrators, and users of MMOCCs.

Reason for Nomination: Just reaching 3,000 members, MMOCC Forum is a relatively active forum with all it's members sharing a common interest in mass multiplayer online chat communities (MMOCC) such as Habbo Hotel.

[snunhuck]

Site Name: ThinkTeen Community

URL: community.thinkteen.co.uk (http://community.thinkteen.co.uk)

Description: Teen Community form where teens from around the world can meet and discuss things in a safe environment.

Reason for Nomination: This site started off as a project in October with no money/funding at all. Now, they have bought a vBulletin forum, again not from funding but from one of the project member's money. Though they are growing slowly, they hope to gain more traffic and a few more members soon. The amazing thing about this is that all of the project members are not aged 16 yet, are still at school (http://www.bournemouth-school.bournemouth.sch.uk) (in full time education, the two project managers doing their GCSE Examinations to add to the stress) and they are doing well!

[soletrader]

Site Name: Traders Laboratory

URL: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/

Description: Financial community for traders and active investors dealing with stocks, forex, futures, and options.

Reason for Nomination: Our board is heavily customized. We have recently implemented clipshare into vbulletin allowing a youtube like environment. This can be viewed here (http://www.videos.traderslaboratory.com). We have also implemented a custom review system hack. A preview can be seen here (http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/broker.php?do=show&did=1). Our chat room is also unique allowing users to share files and post images directly in the chat.

Thanks for looking.

[touba]

Site Name: MMOCC Forum

URL: http://www.mmoccforum.com

Description: MMOCC Forum is a community resource for massive multiplayer online chat communities for developers, administrators, and users of MMOCCs.

Reason for Nomination: Just reaching 3,000 members, MMOCC Forum is a relatively active forum with all it's members sharing a common interest in mass multiplayer online chat communities (MMOCC) such as Habbo Hotel.

Site Name: MMOCC Forum

URL: http://www.mmoccforum.com

Description: MMOCC Forum is a community resource for massive multiplayer online chat communities for developers, administrators, and users of MMOCCs.

Reason for Nomination: It's a good place for people to go if they want to learn about those types of games.

already posted...

[Mrquarter]

Site Name: QuarterX
URL: http://www.quarterx.org/forums/
Description: QuarterX is a community where everybody is allowed to express their opinions, chat with their friends, and just have a good time!
Reason for Nomination: The board is original, customized, and still being worked upon to improve everything.

[TCE Killa]

Site Name: Hip Hop Global

URL: http://www.hhglobal.com/forums

Description: Lots of stuff you can do on this forum, it is heavily modified and is a success. If you are interested in hip hop, then this is a good place to discuss the music with other users.

Reason for Nomination: It is a board forever growing, with so much things users can do on it, their is nothing else needed although so much new stuff is being added. The board is a success so far. The general look of the board I think is what attracts users the most, once they have joined, it is a bonus for them to see how much stuff they can do on it.

[Theoldwiz]

Site Name: School Converse

URL: http://schoolconverse.com/

Description: Ever need a place to come get school help from real people instead of googling all over the internet for a tutorial? Well, School Converse may be a good idea! You can ask for school help and most of your questions now get answered in less than 1 hour. You can always rely on us! Not the kind of person to ask school questions? Thats ok! Come talk in the lounge about anything you want! If posting is your favorite thing, theres always our exiting forum games section!

We also provide an awsome arcade where once you make your daily post and meet your 5 overall post requirment can play.

Or have you always liked the stock market. Come use your credits to buy some shares and see if you make or lose credits. Its all based off real stocks and its all what the real market is doing, thanks to vBTrader.

All ad free, all free

Reason for Nomination: We really look in to seeing kids get good grades and helping them advance. Free and with no ads, exept a sponser or two but this is how we keep it from YOU ARE THE 1 MILLIONTH VISITOR CLICK HERE FOR YOUR PRIZE or ONLY $50/month for excellent school help. Unlike these, we are free and ad free, and we dont mind that

[x YNWA x]

Site Name: PesForum

URL: http://www.pesforum.co.uk

Description: Pesforum.co.uk an online gaming community where you can join and compete in leagues cups and tournaments for the video game pro evolution soccer, in a well setup friendly forum . As a registered member you can:

* Participate in leagues cups and tournaments
* Communicate privately with other gamers around the world
* Post your goals with a chance to win goal of the month
* Discuss tips/formations and get advice from other members
* Win Prizes such as console games, dvd's and football equipment
* Chat in the Football forum about your team, or general gaming forum about many other games and consoles!

Reason for Nomination: It is a forum forever growing every day, with a lot for users and activities for them to do on the forum from the massive arcade to virtual betting on the weeknd football matches, our main goal is to keep members happy and if there is a problem to solve it asap, we have a heavily modified skin so you autmatically know what the forum is about and the skin feels in tone with the aim of the forum, everyone on the site seems to love it and i enjoy running it so very much :up::up::up:

[Guest190829]

Thread closed. Results will be posted tonight. The nominations/seconds after the deadline will not be counted.

[Guest190829]

BOTM results will be up shortly, sorry for the delay!