October BOTM Nominations
 

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of October 2011.

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



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 31st of October 2011 (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 - 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, BirdOPrey5, or an Administrator.

Site Name: Poker Maps
URL: PokerMaps.com
Description: PokerMaps.com - The Authority on Home Poker
Reason for Nomination: Unique site for poker enthusiasts

+1 for this awesome forum

Site Name: Inferno-Gaming
URL: http://inferno-gaming.co.uk
Description: Inferno-Gaming, great gaming hangout for great gamers
Reason for Nomination: hard working, hard playing gaming site.

Site Name: Pizzastic.com
URL: http://www.pizzastic.com/forum/
Description: Forums for talking about pizza.
Reason for Nomination: Because everyone loves Pizza! and because of the cool pizza theme.

Site Name: The Woollybacks
URL: http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk
Description: UK Mountainbiking site, attracting lots of interest since gone vbulletin cms
Reason for Nomination: Lots of work has gone in to vbulletin CMS to make it one of the best ranked uk mountain bike sites in the UK.

Site Name: The Factory Five Forum
URL: http://www.thefactoryfiveforum.com
Description: Official Community Site for Factory Five Racing
Reason for Nomination: Lots of fun mods; Custom Picture Of The Month (POM) widget, CMS turned into Build WIKI's, Great family-friendly community, easy to manage thanks to many mods off this site, Custom Template to master WIKI List, Emerging use of forms for POM Nominations, "Graduations", Registry; menu mod, etc...

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

Site Name: whitegadget.com

URL: www.whitegadget.com

Description: Gadget, Mobile, Gaming Forum

Reason for Nomination: Board gets approx. 34k unique visitors per day, over 99k indexed pages in google, 150k registered members and users love it.

Site Name: School Bus Forums
URL: http://www.schoolbusforums.com
Description: An online community for School Bus Drivers, Monitors, Bus Mechanics and Parents
Reason for Nomination: Still new to the net, this site offers a diversity of community action based on School Busses. October 17-21 is National School Bus Safety Week and we feel that it would be awesome to have this site nominated to increase awareness of School Bus Safety from Parents and Drivers.

Site name: SpookyRealm.com

URL: http://www.spookyrealm.com

Description: talk about everything paranormal and supernatural

Reason for nomination: Spooky atmosphere

Site Name: TeenzSpot
URL: http://www.teenzspot.net
Description: Our community is based on teenager discussions and what you would expect to discuss amongst each teen from a day to day basis. Our community is hip by offering free registration, live chat with other members, arcade,media uploads and much much more. Our style is a combination of a pre-designed skin and some custom coding.
Reason for nomination: We feel our design and layout is classic and east to read and navigate. Vote for us.

Site name: Het bouvierforum

URL: http://www.bouvierforum.nl

Description: Large populair forum about the breed Bouvier des Flandres.
Many possibilities for the placement of threads, photos and video

Reason for nomination: Style Forum is designed and made ​​especially for this breed

Site Name: Bordersdown
URL: www.bordersdown.net
Description: Friendly Import video game forum and reviews, NTSC (Japan / US) and also PAL
Reason for Nomination: The style has been designed to be very clean and easy to read (in the forum), whilst successfully avoiding it looking like an indentikit vb4 site (homepage and content). The site is 10 years old this year. I hope you like it. Only a few plugins of note (DP Sphinx, CTech IRC chat, and Tabs Add) - tried to use as few as possible to make it easy to maintain and stay close to the release schedule. Mobile style will be activated shortly.

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+1 for this site. Looks nice and friendly.

Site name: RotoLandia.com

URL: http://www.rotolandia.com

Description: Off Topic forum from Spain.

Reason for nomination: Custom style, over 1 million of post made since 2008 and much work on it.

Site name: Xtremecoders

URL: http://www.xtremecoders.org/forums/forum.php

Description: Tech News and Hardcore Coding for Routers - etc..

Reason for nomination: Many MODs Installed and Nice Looking Theme.

Site Name: Mature Video Gamer
URL: http://www.maturevideogamer.co.uk
Description: MVG, Laid back gaming community for over 18's
Reason for Nomination: Unique site with and great membership and continues to grow.

Site Name: Anime Fans

URL: http://www.animefans.tv

Description: AnimeFans is a forum for people who love anime.

Reason for Nomination: AnimeFans has two fully custom designed and coded themes and many custom built plugins as well as a great community.

I second the nomination for this forum.

+1 for this board.

Site name: Modelbouwen@BE

URL: Modelbouw@BE

Description: This is an active Modelbuilding forum, you can find all themes of miniature modelbuilding

Reason for nomination: Many mod's installed, and only the active members we keep.
Still improving the style every day :)

+1 for this board, mine also has a scale modeling forum!

omgomgomg OMGOMGOMGSLUSHIEEE!!

+1

Site Name: US Messageboards - "Where the Cool Kids Play"

URL: http://usmessageboards.com

Description: Totally spam, advert and donation solicitation free, open topic message boards.

Reason for nomination: Heavily modified v3.8.7, unique custom styles and all the toys, bells and whistles plus some custom ones, and a good community atmosphere. New board, growing fast. Tapatalk and also mobile skin enabled.

Site name: ChatDD Forums

URL: http://forum.chatdd.com

Description: Desi Community for Language and literature with casual fun talks etc..

Reason for nomination: With Many MODs Installed and Creative Theme.

+1 for this one, like the style!

Site Name: united-forum.de
URL: www.united-forum.de/news
Description: Biggest german command and conquer forum ~ 12 years old (10 on vbulletin)
Reason for Nomination: Highly customized using a lot of self coded modifications. F.e.: Replayparser. Membermap. Tournamentsystem. CSS Sprites. Fully customized vb4-cms (link leads to the cms). Advertisement free since the beginning. Highly optimized for speed (varnish + nginx + ...).

+1, just awesome :up:

Site Name: ITQalam
URL: http://www.itqalam.com
Description: Information & Technology in Urdu & English all over the World
Reason for Nomination: Providing Free Registration & Free Education all over the world in Urdu & English language

+1, nicely desinged and managed :up:

Nominators closed.