/me likes this idea

Voting is subjective so there will always be a chance of biasness occuring. Because the (current) staff is made up of Coders and Designers they'll be able to stick with the judging criteria more than the general population. Plus, we're looking for voting consistency. The general population come and go and people who voted for month A may not vote for month B. The staff, unless you're expected to make changes monthly, will be the constant and give the contest more reliability and credibility. :)

Im unsure if you mean making a whole new contest or merging with current one. My own view is that the contest currently on vbulletin.com needs to stay where it is. Firstly the winner recieves a space on the vbulletin site, a very nice prize for any board. Secondly it makes it more offical than having it on here. Finally its a reason for users to go to the offical forums, and in my eyes should be there rather than here

I agree...I wouldn't support moving/merging it to here.

The reason why we are going to make one here will be because here we can actually feel that people will get involved. Over there, it's just because old members are used to vote, usually nobody has an idea that there is one.

Here we will list you the prizes that will be won, and we will be making a new system for forum links, where you will be able to nominate boards by clicking on a link, like for the HOTM.

Just to let all of you know, we are working on implementing this soon. We might have one for June, but we can't confirm it yet.

Sit tight and look for more news about this!

I just worry with you creating a similar event it may kill the offical one, while yours will offer nothing more than an unoffical award. Winning it on vbulletin.com was offical, this wont be

It has the potential to, if it's organized well.

well, it depends on how this work out at all, but it may become official, so that the contest is holded here because more people participate, but the result is submitted to vb.com to do what they always did with the winner ;)

Will share some of my personal views on this.

- Let's first get the competition that really belongs to vb.org (HOTM/MOTM) running good again.
- Once that runs good, think about expansion.
- Keeping close to what vb.org is about, a design of the monh would be first to add. Like that we can serve both our coders & designers.
- Maybe add a different type of BOTM. Nominate & vote for boards based on how well they made changes to improve themself above standard vB.
- If doing a "normal" BOTM, i think it should stay where it is now, on vb.com. If w really want to have a similar contest, maybe merging the 2 might be a good idea: Nominate on both vb.com & vb.org., addup the nominees and create 1 list of boards that will enter the current month competition, and start a vote on that list on both sites. In the end, total the votes, and declare a global winner. Or some variation on this.