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-   -   Voting for BotM - June 2006 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=118844)

Gio~Logist 06-19-2006 04:30 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Basscat
I never said vBHackers was breaking any rules nor am I trying to bash them. I am stating how unfair this current contest is.

I did receive a spam mail they sent out for members to check out the poll and a couple of other things. This went out to members who selected NOT to receive email from administrators in their usercp. I have mine set to NOT receive them for a reason.


Did I leave out the announcement on the forums at vBHackers about the poll? Like I said before...How can the average webmaster compete?

Perhaps vb.org should send out an email and put an announcement across all of its forums.

The current group of boards in the contest is based on membership loyalty.

How fair is this to the webmaster who does not have a membership based on licensed vb owners. Wake up and smell the coffee.

There is no way the average webmaster will be able to compete against this.

Yep....this contest is a LBotM contest. No thanks!

Ever noticed how all of the members here who have "coder" or "advanced coder" for a user title, voted for vbhackers?

Come on....This contest is not fair!

Perhaps you should break your contest down into catagories of boards. This way the average webmaster is not competing against boards with a large licensed vb member base.
I'm sorry, last time i checked, you can't force someone to click something. By asking them to go over to the poll and check it out because vbh is in it, all that's being done is directing them to the thread. Their decision and such is completely up to them. How can the average webmaster compete? Take a look at the members that the other sites have and compare them to vbh, that's how. And the email you got was an update not spam. It's also nothing that should be discussed here.

Am i missing something here, did anyone pay money or receive money for being in this contest? Last time i checked, it was done for fun.

Lizard King 06-19-2006 05:57 AM
Voted for vbseo.com

Smiry Kin's 06-19-2006 01:59 PM
I don't think paid sites should be in the vote, sorry but my option.

Marco van Herwaarden 06-19-2006 02:15 PM
Do you mean paid (ie pay to enter the site) or commercial?

The Chief 06-19-2006 02:22 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcoH64
Do you mean paid (ie pay to enter the site) or commercial?
He probably meant commercial, even though I can't see why they couldn't enter?

amykhar 06-19-2006 02:32 PM
Just about every site is commercial. They use ad banners to make money, or they sell or support a commercial product.

Lizard King 06-19-2006 04:18 PM
I think it shall be open vote so anyone can check the voters :)
Also from the next month the guidelines shall be prepared so noone can complain about anything.

Ziki 06-19-2006 04:35 PM
vb.org definately

Ntfu2 06-19-2006 05:00 PM
Everyone just breathe, this is just a fun little contest and our first one mind you. Changes will be made after the first month to accomodate everyone and try to make everything even more fair and equal :)

The important thing is that no one has lost an eye or anything....yet :D

hotwheels 06-19-2006 07:33 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by amykhar
Just about every site is commercial. They use ad banners to make money, or they sell or support a commercial product.
Mine isn't......I don't have banner's, google adsense or anything........

However, i am glad that this is starting to work BoTM.....I think it is a great idea and will go over big. Just take's sometime to get the bug's worked out......

BamaStangGuy 06-20-2006 04:27 PM
If it uses vBulletin and complies with vBulletins terms and conditions there is absolutely no reason at all it should not be allowed to enter.

johnrizz 06-21-2006 01:17 AM
vbulletin.org
Even though vBhackers.com been very helpful, vbulletin.org has help me the most so therefore you guys get my respect.:bunny:

sab2000sab 06-21-2006 03:43 AM
I voted for PhotoSharingForum.com!

joeychgo 06-21-2006 06:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by amykhar
Just about every site is commercial. They use ad banners to make money, or they sell or support a commercial product.

How do you define that? VBSEO sells a product, so yes, its commercial, but the others have what - advertisements? That doesnt make them commercial.

noppid 06-21-2006 06:15 AM
vbhackers. Good Luck.

I'm off to "make money". :)

Ike013 06-21-2006 07:01 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by joeychgo
How do you define that? VBSEO sells a product, so yes, its commercial, but the others have what - advertisements? That doesnt make them commercial.
Think you first need to know the purposes of the owners of the board to be able to say it is commercial or not.

hotwheels 06-21-2006 12:54 PM
well my vote still went to mustangevolution............Mustangs rule, hehehehe

sezmar 06-21-2006 10:45 PM
Yep Yep! It's got to be VBHackers.com

Ah! Why is vbulletin.org even on it? That to me ain't right!

TruthElixirX 06-22-2006 01:33 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by sezmar
Ah! Why is vbulletin.org even on it? That to me ain't right!
Stop with the "X board shouldn't be on there!" crap. All the boards met the rules for this contest. Get.Over.It.

Logikos 06-22-2006 01:37 AM
Any vBulletin powered site should have the right to be apart of the contest, regardless what the site content is.

The Chief 06-22-2006 01:39 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by LiveWire
Any vBulletin powered site should have the right to be apart of the contest, regardless what the site content is.
We limit ourselves to anything except Sexually explicit or violent content, which I think is reasonable ;)

Logikos 06-22-2006 01:46 AM
I agree with you on that one.

Smiry Kin's 06-22-2006 11:41 AM
commercial, well for one, there not allowed to be posted on vb.org.. so i dont think its right to include them in the voting..

well thats my opinion, it obviously wont change anything..

niels999 06-22-2006 12:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Chief
We limit ourselves to anything except Sexually explicit or violent content, which I think is reasonable ;)
Dude, you seriously don't know how sexy LiveWire is :banana: I think vBh should be removed :knockedout:

melefire 06-22-2006 01:15 PM
vBHackers all the way

TruthElixirX 06-22-2006 03:53 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by niels999
Dude, you seriously don't know how sexy LiveWire is :banana: I think vBh should be removed :knockedout:
vBH isn't ran by livewire anymore, or wasn't last time I checked. ;)

Logikos 06-22-2006 05:54 PM
I'm no longer the owner, I'm still an admin there.

Zachariah 06-22-2006 06:27 PM
mustangevolution.com :)

niels999 06-23-2006 04:24 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by TruthElixirX
vBH isn't ran by livewire anymore, or wasn't last time I checked. ;)
But he is stil being sexy there ;)

hotwheels 06-23-2006 01:18 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zachariah
mustangevolution.com :)
I like the way you think.......... :D

Zachariah 06-23-2006 01:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by hotwheels
I like the way you think.......... :D
Good ole Red, White, and Blue. :rambo:

Snake 06-23-2006 04:33 PM
vB.org gets my vote! :D

joshll 06-24-2006 08:14 PM
come on vBhackers!! :D

FASherman 06-25-2006 08:05 PM
Had to go with vBSEO. While I am impressed with vbHackers, the net of it is its still a copycat of VB.Org. All the style and graphics work is lipstick on a bulldog when the concept isn't original. Even the content isn't original. There's a large number of mods there that have also been released here.

If BotM becomes nothing more than a popularity contest with admins sending out emails as a voting drive, the whole idea can be tossed on the rubbish heap now.

No promoting of any kind should be tolerated and based on that alone, vbHackers should be disqualified - especially if the rules are based on VB.Com which does have a rule prohibiting promotions.

Of course, I don't expect that to happen. VB.Org doesn't have that kind of credibility any more. Users are leaving left and right. Webmasters promoting votes for their site are at least driving traffic here and that, I'm betting, is more important than integrity.

GaryP 06-25-2006 08:12 PM
I voted for vB.org, although I liked the look of photosharingforum I just didn't think it had enough content yet.

michaelbenson 06-25-2006 09:25 PM
Easy. vBSEO.
Great support, great community, great product. What more could you ask for?

ab420 06-26-2006 05:12 AM
vBulletin.org all the way! I would be lost without this site!

Marco van Herwaarden 06-26-2006 08:33 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by FASherman
If BotM becomes nothing more than a popularity contest with admins sending out emails as a voting drive, the whole idea can be tossed on the rubbish heap now.
As mentioned before, we will use an updated set of rules for the next round where we will try to make it more a contest with equal chances.

Quote:
Originally Posted by FASherman
No promoting of any kind should be tolerated and based on that alone, vbHackers should be disqualified - especially if the rules are based on VB.Com which does have a rule prohibiting promotions.
None of our current rules are broken by any of the submitted sites as far as i know, so i see no reason to disqualify anyone.

We have said that we based our rules on the ones at vb.com, we are not using their version, so we can not disqualify someone based on the rules of another site.

smacklan 06-26-2006 11:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden
We have said that we based our rules on the ones at vb.com, we are not using their version, so we can not disqualify someone based on the rules of another site.
whats the difference? not that it matters to me, mind you, just seems to me that you are contradicting yourself with that answer.

rex_b 06-26-2006 10:41 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by FASherman
Had to go with vBSEO. While I am impressed with vbHackers, the net of it is its still a copycat of VB.Org. All the style and graphics work is lipstick on a bulldog when the concept isn't original. Even the content isn't original. There's a large number of mods there that have also been released here.

If BotM becomes nothing more than a popularity contest with admins sending out emails as a voting drive, the whole idea can be tossed on the rubbish heap now.

No promoting of any kind should be tolerated and based on that alone, vbHackers should be disqualified - especially if the rules are based on VB.Com which does have a rule prohibiting promotions.

Of course, I don't expect that to happen. VB.Org doesn't have that kind of credibility any more. Users are leaving left and right. Webmasters promoting votes for their site are at least driving traffic here and that, I'm betting, is more important than integrity.
While your entitled to your opinion I find your post be both falsely based on assumptions and wrong.

Every site on this list has done exactly what the rules have asked for.

And saying vBH is nothing but a copy of .org is a flat out lie. Why don't we just call vBulletin a copy of UBB with lipstick?


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