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[April / May 2009] BOTM Nomination Thread
This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of April / May 2009.
Please note the BOTM Rules here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/info.php?do=botm Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of March 2009. 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:
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 King Kovifor or an administrator. Best of luck to all nominees! |
Site Name: India Talks
URL: http://indiatalks.in Description: Where India actually talks! Reason for Nomination: An online community exclusively for Indians and for all the people around the globe who love India. |
Site Name: Christ First Forums & RPG
URL: www.christfirstforums.com Description: Conservative Christian community forum running over 60 modifications with a Large Section dedicated to Role playing games. Reason for Nomination: We're months 10 old next month so I thought it was time i nominated it |
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NewsForum URL: www.NewsForum.com Description: NewsForum.com is a fairly new community designed for discussion of all the latest news headlines and hot topics. Reason for Nomination: Our goals are to bring several news sources and opinions together into one place so that all sides of a story can be heard, allowing members to draw their own conclusions. We have tried to keep the design as simple and fast loading as possible, yet still keep the "news" theme intact. ------------------------------------------------------------ Site Name: FightForum URL: www.FightForum.com Description: Mixed martial arts and boxing discussion community focusing on the UFC, PrideFC, K1 and other combat sports. Reason for Nomination: In less than 2 years, FightForum has become an extremely popular web destination for many Boxing and MMA fans. We have a great team of moderators that uphold very high standards and make this site what it is. The design is very simple, with minimal styles changes to keep the site looking attractive yet fast loading and simple to upgrade. |
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BowlingBoards.com URL: www.BowlingBoards.com Description: BowlingBoards.com is an online bowling forum community. We focus on the bowlers needs such as forums, score tracking software, tournament listings and more. With so many sites that allow flaming, cursing, adult material and more, it was the desire to build a site with Ethics, Dignity, and Values in mind. BowlingBoards.com is a site for people who love the game of bowling to enjoy talking about the game without the abuse of other forums. Reason for Nomination: We work with youth bowlers all the way up to seniors. We are a Family Friendly bowling forum with no adult material, cursing, or flaming of any kind. We care about people and the communities we all live in. We have sponsorship opportunities for bowlers who due to a lack of funds are unable to bowl. Conclusion Thank you for considering us for your highly honored BOTM Program. We hope that you will give BowlingBoards.com the chance to represent your great award. Chris |
Site Name: Game Renegades
Site URL: www.gamerenegades.com Description: Gamers, Prepare for the Renegade Revolution Reason for Nomination: A Gaming community with many options for our users including Counter Strike Servers and a gaming Wikipedia(Coming soon). |
Site Name: Talk Jesus
URL: www.talkjesus.com Description: True Non-Denominational Christian Website, 100% Scripture Based Reason for Nomination: Talk Jesus is a very clean forum, no advertisements anywhere and not cluttered. It is completely organized, fast loading pages, well moderated and 100% sincere to its purpose which is: discussions of the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ (GOD) and preaching the truth as told by Scripture. It does not allow for debates, therefore refraining from being hypocritical of its sole purpose. The forum is very friendly, honest, edifying. There are over 350+ arcade games all family friendly/kid safe as well. A lot of great features including personal journals, prayer events, hundreds of testimonies of miracles performed by GOD in people's personal encounters, complete online Bible in 24 translations, bible dictionary, colorful high quality Scriptural maps, a high quality live chat room that is actually stable on high number of concurrent chatters. The forum is very active, 12,000 members and on average about 50-100 posts per day. All registrations are moderated first to weed out any potential troublemakers. All photos are also moderated first as well for obvious reasons. Talk Jesus forums has a built in live chat with over 150+ songs in a neatly integrated mp3 player (left column of the live chat). Our chat is able to handle well over 50 concurrent users, especially during our occasional massive prayer events. Talk Jesus has many awesome features to make it a one-for-all amazing experience to be part of the community. A quick run down of the features provided are (mostly mods taken from this site, approximately 90 mods installed currently)...
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Site Name: Lirenti.com
URL: http://lirenti.com Description: Hi-Tech Albanian community! Reason for Nomination: An online community for Albanian people about technology and new researches. The most important reason that I'm participating is that we're new to vBulletin software (we switched this week) and give as a chance. We have a very friendly staff and they speak more than two languages. We are working to build a really big portal. Thanks |
Site Name: eibuddy.com
URL: http://www.eibuddy.com Description: Community similar to facebook, Old facebook! Reason for Nomination: This site turned out so great, it deserves to see it. The people is great and the design is outstanding. |
Site Name: Digital Kaos Forums
URL: http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums Description: Digital Forum dedicated to the help and support of its members. We specialise in cable and satellite tv (Dreambox, Technomate), games consoles (xbox360, PS3, Wii, etc.), Mobile phones, Sat Nav GPS, PC tech help and support, etc. Reason for Nomination: Digital Kaos has been online for 10 months and it has taken flight at a tremendous pace! We regularly get 7000+ unique visitors and approximately 600+ new posts daily. We've recently passed the 130,000 posts milestone which is a great acheivement in such a short time. In December, we invested in a custom style for the forum, completely unique and it's fitting for our niche. The members love the change. We have a few forum features that you probably wouldn't find on other forums. MP3 Search facility - listen online, search lyrics, download tracks, etc. all FREE. (files not stored on our server) Rapidshare Search facility - Search for those illusive rapidshare.com links. KaosTube - Our own version of YouTube with our own collection of great videos. Live Sport Streams and Live Football Scores from around the world! Stats: Threads: 27,024, Posts: 132,302, Members: 35,158 Thanks for reading and I hope we've done enough to gain your nomination. |
Site Name: Cell Phone Forums
URL: http://cellphoneforums.net Description: Cell Phone Forums is community for cell phone enthusiasts. Active forum discussion about Cell Phones service providers and Cell Phone Manufacturers Reason for Nomination: Cell Phone Forums is a highly customized site that has been online since 2003. Over 50 vbulletin.org plugins have been tastefully added along with custom modifications and theme that completes the user's experience. The Cell Phone Database is unique to the site and fully integrates into vBulletin. This systems helps users with the same phone models connect as well as identify new phones that meet their needs. Site activity has been increasing steadily since it's inception. With the help of vbSEO, the site is highly optimized and in Dec 2008 a new record was made for unique visitors. Currently, the site has over 170,000 members, 160,000 threads and 770,000 posts |
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Site Name: Free Realms Forums
URL: www.freerealmsforums.com Description: Full user support and fan based discussion about the new game from SOE, Free Realms. Reason for Nomination: Free Realms is designed and published by SEO, a huge MMORPG publisher behind such titles as EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies. Free Realms is their first attempt at a free to play MMORPG and so far it looks great! Free Realms caters to the younger, more casual crowd than their older games. While the game will emphasis social interaction, combat is not forgotten. Free Realms will have at least 11 playable classes and 2 races; Human and Pixie. Besides player housing and the ability to raise pets, players will be able to send each other videos, pictures, links and messages. The graphics are colorful and appealing to all ages and knowing SEO, Free Realms is bound to have great character customization. This site discusses Free Realms and tries to give support to all players of Free Realms. We are one of the newest communities on the web! |
Site Name: The Social Meet
URL: www.thesocialmeet.com Description: This is an online social networking site for teens all over the world, it is using the old facebook layout and is clearly superbly modified to fit the vBulletin style. It includes the applications drop down that is shown on the new version of Facebook and is definately one of the nicest looking communities on the web |
Site Name: JoubonJatra.com
URL: http://joubonjatra.com/forums/index.php Description: Largest Web Community From Bangladesh. Reason for Nomination: One of the top 10 site from Bangladesh in alexa, perfect blend to be put adult and minors all together. Doing social charities, hangout, gaming and many more. perfect example how a vb forum can turn into a social community. Extra: Claiming as the first adult community who put filter for minors. Logins: userID: demovb pass: vbdemo |
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Site Name: Srimeenakshimobiles - Creating Gsm Community URL: http://srimeenakshimobiles.com/forums Description:srimeenakshimobiles is a community of GSM and people interested discussing and sharing knowledge related to mobiles hardware and aslo software Stats: Threads: 6,877, Posts: 19,361, Members: 15,088 Reason for Nomination: Its my site for heping gsm workers |
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Site Name: Finding Jesus Today
URL: http://www.findingjesustoday.com/forums/index.php Description: Friendly Evangelist Sist that is open for People to discuss their faith or ask Question. Reason for Nomination: Site is Aim to reduce confusing on Prinicples Of Jesus and is a real Youth Movement on the Internet. also applying to their Physical Lives. |
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Site Name: Awakening of Chaos
URL: http://www.awakeningofchaos.com Description: Where Darkness Falls, One Shall Rise Reason for Nomination: The website and community for Awakening of Chaos guild and general World of Warcraft players. |
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Site Name: MMO Addict
URL: http://www.mmoaddict.com Description: A community for massively multiplayer online games. Reason for Nomination: My site is a very clean site. It runs vBulletin 3.8.1, along with Blog 2.0.1 and vBAdvanced CMPS v3.1.0. Our sections are well defined, and content is easy to get to. I have put a lot of work into my site, and I would like to be able to share this with others. |
Site Name: Poetry in Color Forum
URL: http://JPiCForum.info Description: Poetry Forum Reason for Nomination: Because I love poetic people :) Jacquii. |
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Site Name: THCfarmer URL: http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/ Description: thcfarmer is a medical marijuana community Stats: Threads: 5,031, Posts: 81,377, Members: 2,798 Reason for Nomination: its my site :) |
Site Name - Sin City Sportbikes
URL: http://scsportbikes.com Description: Motorcycle rides and riders for the Las Vegas, Nevada region. Reason for Nomination: Please take a moment to look at my site. I have spent a considerable amount of time giving vBulletin a unique, one of a kind, custom look in layout and colors. We have a large community of motorcycle riders in the Las Vegas area, and giving them a unique community to congregate and communicate on has allowed the site to grow and expand which has been beneficial to the area. |
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Windows 7 Forums URL: http://www.w7forums.com Description: W7Forums.com is a new community to discuss the new Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft. We've created a custom article system using the vBulletin product/template system, which allows us to add interesting articles on a regular basis (and will be released here as a free mod in the coming weeks). The vBulletin install has been tweaked in many ways to provide a custom design. Reason for Nomination: We are trying hard to become one of the friendliest and most useful Windows 7 websites on the net, providing free advice to any user no matter what their experience level. There are no advertisments on the site, and we are growing at a good pace - creating a database of knowledge for the next big operating system. |
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Site Name: Blank My Blank! Promote Your ____!
URL: http://blankmyblank.com Description: Promote your website, blog, product, or service! Reason for Nomination: We're offering a free service for everyone and hope to get the word out more. Thank you. |
Site Name: The Noosphere
URL: http://www.thenoosphere.com Description: A Discussion Forum for Grownups Reason for Nomination: In an incredibly short period of time, we have built an aesthetically attractive, highly organized, unique place on the web for intelligent posters to discuss a myriad of topics, from science, music, and art, to politics, history, and pop culture. We hold our members to a higher standard than many places on the internet, and we encourage civility, respect, and thoughtful conversation from our members. The site is built around the concept of 'the noosphere', defined as the 'sphere of human thought' (the natural evolution of the Earth beyond the physical world's 'Geosphere' and 'Biosphere'). Despite having no IT training, we have implemented a number of innovative mods on the site, and upgrade content continuously. From the second a visitor visits www.thenoosphere.com, we believe they know it's 'not just another website'. Feature List: Home Page Forums Blogs Photopost Galleries Reference Library Answer Board (new) Avatar Project (sample) TN Light (alternate template) TN Radio TN Chat (members only) Videos TN Sphere Featured Musical Artist PIC of the Week Witching Hour |
Site Name: 1320LEGEND
URL: www.1320legend.com Description: Brand new Online Drag Racing game coming soon! Reason for Nomination: Great community and site! |
Site Name: Ocean-Wonders
URL: www.ocean-wonders.co.uk Description: On-line fish keepers community Reason for Nomination: We are a true on-line community, with a fun, friendly, relaxed and inviting atmosphere. We actively encourage members to ask the questions they are to worried about asking on other forums of the same context. We have been established for little over 4 months and at the time of writing we have over 200 members, 1200 threads and over 12,000 posts. We have been visited over 100,000 times ! Customised forums integrated with vbadvanced. Lots of extra features :D |
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Site name-Obamacies.com url: http://www.obamacies.com Description: Resource to Learn, debate, and discuss the Obama administration. Talk about his Cabinet, Policies, and News. You can read biographies, catch up with current events and watch videos of todays politics. There are even local and international sections for everybody to get involved. Reason for nomination: I have worked with the developer to get a format that will help people learn. I feel people need to know about what impacts the U.S.A and even the world. We have biographies, speeches, videos, links, etc. of the current events. It may have ads, but they are for operating costs. I would be happy not making $1 if I could get 1,000 people educated and involved in society. |
Site Name: ExoMagic
URL: http://www.exomagic.com/forum (http://www.exomagic.com) Description: ExoMagic[dot]Com - The premier place to teach, learn, and share magic freely. Reason for Nomination: This is an exclusive online community dedicated to the learning, teaching, and discussion of magic. We have invested our time and money into creating the most unique custom forum around. From our unique skin to our custom modifications, this is truly a site worth a nomination. Note: This is for magicians like David Blaine, Houdini, Paul Harris, etc... not the game. Looking forward to your vote! |
Site Name: What's Your View?
URL: http://whatsyourview.net/forum/ Description: What's Your View? - Debate and Opinions on Celebrities, TV, Entertainment, Sport and Media news Reason for Nomination: Just designed a new skin and have reached over 7000 new members in less than 9 months. Recently won board of the month on vbulletinsetup. |
Site Name: 8WayRun
URL: http://www.8wayrun.com/ Description: Soulcalibur (Soul Calibur) for the hardcore enthusiast! A Tournament Competitive Community for the Soul Calibur series. 8WR is the home for the English speaking competitive community for this popular fighting game. With members all around the world; gamers get together to share ideas, strategy and good ole' competition. We are also the forefront of the Soulcalibur IV National Tournament series and supply event planning tools to tournament organizers. Reason for Nomination:
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Site Name: PentaxForums.com URL: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/ Description: Pentaxforums.com is currently the largest-growing community of Pentax camera users in the world, and is the largest English forum that's exclusively dedicated to Pentax. The site features a forum, gallery, article system, and multiple lens databases and uses a heavily-modified/customized, yet seemingly normal, installation of vBulletin. Nearly 500,000 posts. Reason for Nomination: This forum uses dozens of modifications, yet they are seamlessly integrated into the vBulletin installation! Not only are many PHP plugins installed, but there are also heavy template modifications in addition to custom styling. Here's just a brief list of some of the customizations made to the forum: >Custom notice for new users to activate their accounts via e-mail >Custom forumdisplay layout (navigation controls on top; simplified footer) which changes for guests and registered users for SEO purposes >Custimized Photoplog Pro installation >Customized iTrader installation >Postbit contents vary by forum; additional links visible when appropriate >vBSEO installed >Custom HTML listing form used for posts in the Marketplace >"Who's Online" legend for logged-in users >Modified user profile pages: links to iTrader (feedback system) and renaming of Visitor Messages to "guestbook" >RSS Site Map >Rearranged navbar for easier browsing >Two highly customized installations of ReviewPost that serve as lens databases; manual vBulletin templace integration for the headers >Article system integrated into the forum (using the Chief First Post mod) >Links in the "Search" dropdown that indicate the number of new posts >Customized quicklinks menu containing convenient links that are not present in the stock vBulletin >Moderator statistics >Keyword-based anti-spam system for new users >Human User Verification question upon registration in addition to CAPTCHA >JS script that verifies e-mail and password length during registration >Hidden registration fields to prevent bots from registering successfully >Hit counter for forums that serve as links >Option for moderators to bump threads >Inline prefix editing for moderators >Cyb sub-forum manager >Custom poll options: limit number of votes in a multiple-choice poll; hide results until the poll is closed >Highslide JS integration for wide images using [imgwide] bbcode >Custom user CP, complete with icons, custom PM layout, a donation progress bar, invitation system, personal notepad, and moderator log >Extra thread fields for technical data for threads posted in the "Photo Critique" forum and when submitting photo contest entries >Global announcement modification >IP Info mod to detect multiple users using the same IP address >Mass PM function for social group owners >Separation of sticky and normal threads in select forums >System for registered users to automatically mark their threads as "Sold" in the marketplace forum - this lets users move and lock threads with the click of one button, but only in a specific forum >Cron task to remove thread redirection messages once a week >vBadvanced links directory >vBadvanced homepage (soon to be replaced by a custom homepage) The site also uses a custom-built default site style, available in both red and green versions. There's also a "simple skin" available for dial-up users which is based on the standard vBulletin skin. I originally wanted to post screenshots of all these features, but I decided that would take up way too much space - so you'll have to see them for yourself! Several of the features listed above can only be seen or used by registered users. Use the test account below if you'd like to try some of them out: Username- testuser Password- testtest |
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