October BOTM Nominations

[Roms]

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of October 2010.

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




Let me reiterate the rules for this thread:
Only post nominations or seconds, no chatter.
All seconds are to be placed in 1 post, with a max of 3.
All seconds should include the word "second" or "+1".
All posts must be in English.Please abide by these rules or your post will be removed.



Nominations will be accepted until the 30th of September 2010 (close to midnight... close means +/- HOURS. YES, I WILL CLOSE AND GET TO IT AS "SOON" AS I CAN (Like when they have to type that code in the tv show "LOST" this is some serious stuff here!!!)

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:


Originally Posted by Sample Nomination
Site Name: vBulletin.org
URL: www.vbulletin.org (http://www.vbulletin.org/) - 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.

IMPORTANT inqueries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Roms or an Administrator.

Best of luck to all nominees! :D

[pneo]

Site Name: PNE-Online

URL: http://www.pne-online.net

Description: A forum for discussion of Preston North End Football Club and the City of Preston (UK).

Reason for Nomination: PNE-Online has been established as an advertisement free, community funded forum for over six years and recently reached the one million post mark. After over a year of development we recently upgraded to VBulletin 4 and our new forum includes a fully customised CSS designed style with an abundance of unique imagery and a host of custom modifications created by ourselves such as an optional swear filter, RSS parser, prediction league, and hidden 'ignored user' quotes coupled with a selection of plug-ins from VBulletin.org such as the VSa ChatBox.

It would make all of our hard work and effort worthwhile if we could be awarded the VBulletin.org Board of the Month as the highest accolade for a VBulletin forum.

[omniqix]

Site name: SpookyRealm.com

URL: http://www.spookyrealm.com

Description: talk about everything paranormal and supernatural

Reason for nomination: October is Halloween!!

[Jack12]

Site Name: PNE-Online

URL: http://www.pne-online.net

Description: A forum for discussion of Preston North End Football Club and the City of Preston (UK).

Reason for Nomination: PNE-Online has been established as an advertisement free, community funded forum for over six years and recently reached the one million post mark. After over a year of development we recently upgraded to VBulletin 4 and our new forum includes a fully customised CSS designed style with an abundance of unique imagery and a host of custom modifications created by ourselves such as an optional swear filter, RSS parser, prediction league, and hidden 'ignored user' quotes coupled with a selection of plug-ins from VBulletin.org such as the VSa ChatBox.

It would make all of our hard work and effort worthwhile if we could be awarded the VBulletin.org Board of the Month as the highest accolade for a VBulletin forum.

I don't usually vote, but this is clean, fast loading and just all round nice.

Seconded.

[webcosmo]

Site Name: Webcosmo Forums

URL: http://www.webcosmoforums.com/

Description: Webmaster Forum offering help and resources on SEO, online marketing, online business, website design & development, and other webmaster related categories.

Reason for Nomination: Webcosmo Forums is one of the fastest growing webmaster forum. We are on the first page of Google.com for the keyword webmaster forum. Our first hand experience on website design, website development, marketing, SEO lets us help out webmasters better. We recently upgraded the forum to vbulletin 4 with a completely new look and feel.

[CMSTemplateZ]

Site Name: Battlefield 3
URL: http://battlefield3forums.com
DESCRIPTION: A community dedicated to Battlefield 3.
Reason For Nom: A lot of hard work has gone into the site, i feel it's the best BF3 site out there at this time so i am nominating my site.

Again still a work in progress, but i do have several unique features within my site.

Thakns

[cricko]

Site name: SpookyRealm.com

URL: http://www.spookyrealm.com

Description: talk about everything paranormal and supernatural

Reason for nomination: October is Halloween!!

Very Nice work there.

Seconded.

[omniqix]

Site Name: Sociopets.com
URL: http://www.sociopets.com/forum/
Description: Forum for owners of regular and exotic/weird pets
Reason for nomination: Not many forums where the owners of pet stick insects, cockroaches, Llamas and Skunks can get togehter and chat

[EnderNolan]

Site Name: Task Force Sixteen: Atlantic Lightning

URL: http://www.taskforce16.com/

Description: Online community for an Airsoft Team based out of North Carolina.

Reason for Nomination: This is our third rendition of our team forums, the latest two have been vBulletin. We are simply very happy with the new vB4 and how it can tie together our website information and our forum community/networking. While this newest rendition has only been live for a few months, we are quite proud of it and enjoy showing it off.

[Ian Cunningham]

Site Name: Keyboard Forums

URL: http://www.keyboardforums.com

Description: Community for musical keyboard enthusiasts of all levels of expertese.

Reason for Nomination: The forums have just undergone a huge upgrade and facelift, totally changing the feel of the forum. It's one of the largest musical keyboard forums around and has a really friendly community :).

[TheLastSuperman]

I don't usually vote, but this is clean, fast loading and just all round nice.

Seconded.

Same here.. I completely agree.

+1

[njoker555]

Site Name: Gamers Forum

URL: http://www.Gamers-Forum.com

Description: Community for Gamers By Gamers

Reason for Nomination: The forum just turned 4 years old and even though many people had doubts about how far we'll get, we've gotten this far and I believe the forum deserves it. We have more than 200,000 posts and we're just starting. We have many plans for the near future to take it much further including a Gaming For Charity event we plan on hosting for this coming Holiday Season, we have volunteers from our forum who will be gaming for 24 hours straight (with some breaks) with the idea of raising money for a children's Charity for the holidays. We plan on making this an annual tradition because interest in this has grown very much since the idea was recently introduced by a forum moderator.

[OurCouponHome]

Site Name: Our Coupon Home

URL: http://www.ourcouponhome.com

Description: Website to help save money by using coupons!

Reason for Nomination: Recently just upgraded to 4.0 and had a major facelift.

[omniqix]

site name: peertravel.com

url: http://www.peertravel.com/

Description: Talk about travel related stuff

Reason for Nomination: Simple yet elegant travel theme and design

[ArtAttack]

Site Name: Instant Jump!
URL: http://instantjump.com
Description: An anime community.
Reason for Nomination: Recently relaunched with a fresh start; Instant Jump! has been heavily modified to create an amazing user experience.

[blake247]

Site Name: Masons of Texas

URL: http://www.masonsoftexas.com

Description: Online community for Freemasons

Reason for Nomination: Masons of Texas is the premiere online community for all things Masonic. We feature live chat, SMS support, twitter integration and our very own iOS App that integrates with the CMS articles and Forum. This is my first foray into the vBulletin world and I hope you guys enjoy it. I appreciate your support.

[omniqix]

Site name: ArmyAttack.com

URL: http://www.armyattack.com/forum/

Description: forums to discuss anything military related

Reason for nomination: Clean style, and a place where you can go feel like in a military headquarters and talk about everything from boot camp to high tech weaponry

[ah786]

Site Name: ScriptsListing Marketplace

URL: http://scriptslisting.com/marketplace

Description: ScriptsListing Marketplace is the World's Largest Gigs Marketplace Where People Buy/Sell Services, Products & Anything they want for $5 to $50

Reason for Nomination: An Awesome Marketplace which is getting very Popular now only after 7 days of Launch. I was having many options to run such a site with other ready-made scripts but Preferred Vbulletin due to its Comprehensive Admin Panel and User-friendly front-end. This Marketplace is absolutely free at the moment without any strings attached and We look forward to introduce more exciting features with the help of Vbulletin Mods in future.

[dsav90]

Site Name: Dachshund Forum : Dachshund Breed Dog Forums

URL: http://www.dachshund-talk.com

Description: Internationsl Online community for Dachshund enthusiasts

Reason for Nomination: Because everyone loves a Wiener Dog;) :)

[Martyn1983]

Site Name: Fiat Scotland

URL: http://www.fiat-scotland.com

Description: Scotland's only dedicated Fiat Community

Reason for Nomination: Our summer season is now finished and on top of attending and arranging a number of meets throughout the UK we've managed to keep the site looking, in my opinion at least, in tip-top condition. Lots of hard work behind the scenes this year, and I think a BOTM award would be a fitting attribute to all the work that we, the site admin, have carried out this year.

[jacobsen1]

Site Name: New School Of Photography
URL: http://newschoolofphotography.com/forum.php
Description: A photography forum that's a bit more laid back and NOT brand specific.
Reason for Nomination: We're a small photo forum with <1200 members but we've already passed the 500k post mark. We started life as a SMF forum but upgraded to vb as soon as our income allowed us to afford the license. We've since upgraded to 4.0.x again as our funds have allowed. The site is my "baby" that I've learned EVERYTHING about forums and VB from and it's been a lot of fun.

[TheComputerGuy]

Site Name: Gun & Game Forums
URL: http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/
Description: The Friendliest Gun Forum On The Internet
Reason for nomination: Great integration on the style breaking away from the forum normal look that is refreshing yet not too drastic.

[strudinox]

Site Name: GND-Tech

URL: http://gnd-tech.com

Description: We are on online computer hardware enthusiast community who have a passion for PC gaming, and getting the most out of our computers. We offer unbiased reviews and tech news, as well as guides on various topics such as overclocking. We take pride in our gaming rigs and the games we play!

Reason for Nomination: We are relatively new to the tech scene, but with our news, reviews, and community, we believe we are offering something great! We recently converted our forums to VB from phpbb about 6 months ago, which has been the best thing that ever happened to our site. We have sponsored gaming events and tournaments with great prizes. We are also a very respectful and mature community and welcome newcomers!

[Arcade Fire]

Site Name: GND-Tech

URL: http://gnd-tech.com

Description: We are on online computer hardware enthusiast community who have a passion for PC gaming, and getting the most out of our computers. We offer unbiased reviews and tech news, as well as guides on various topics such as overclocking. We take pride in our gaming rigs and the games we play!

Reason for Nomination: We are relatively new to the tech scene, but with our news, reviews, and community, we believe we are offering something great! We recently converted our forums to VB from phpbb about 6 months ago, which has been the best thing that ever happened to our site. We have sponsored gaming events and tournaments with great prizes. We are also a very respectful and mature community and welcome newcomers!

Seconded! :up:

[championcycle]

Site Name: Ontario Motorcycle

URL: http://ontariomotorcycle.ca/forum/

Description: Forum for motorcycle enthusiasts all around the province of Ontario. Local meetings, charity events, and great online discussions and long cruises. New riders and veteran riders welcome.

Reason for nomination: We few started something small, free to everyone with the intentions of bringing the motorcycle community closer and for a small forum who try to help everyone who joins it has worked out great. We have worked very hard on our forum and it has come to look just the way we wanted. full of features.

[MylesM]

Site Name: GameRex

URL: http://forum.gamerex.net

Description: A general gaming discussion board for gaming enthusiasts

Reason for Nomination: We are very new, but we are also a thriving community. A lot of hard work and preparation was put in for our official release and believe this board deserves to be recognized.

[robdawg]

Site Name: Packer Forum

URL: http://www.packerforum.com

Description: The #1 Fan Website for the Green Bay Packers

Reason for Nomination: We have been modding vBulletin for a while to try and get it out of the standard look and feel. We have a number of mods that really give this site a unique look and feel. Hopefully other enjoy the site as much as I did making it!

[webcosmo]

Site Name: Ontario Motorcycle

URL: http://ontariomotorcycle.ca/forum/

Description: Forum for motorcycle enthusiasts all around the province of Ontario. Local meetings, charity events, and great online discussions and long cruises. New riders and veteran riders welcome.

Reason for nomination: We few started something small, free to everyone with the intentions of bringing the motorcycle community closer and for a small forum who try to help everyone who joins it has worked out great. We have worked very hard on our forum and it has come to look just the way we wanted. full of features.

Nice one, second this.

[MOGmartin]

Site Name: MOGmartin's SEO Forum

Site URL: http://seoforums.org

Reason for Nomination:

Since our last nomination we have changed completely,
new skin,
new custom SEO plugins,
new caching built for the site to ensure performance even under heavy traffic spikes,
and much, much more!

Also we are now the #1 ranked SEO forum in google, helping other people improve their websites!

[Roms]

Thank you for your nominations! The poll will be up later today.