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What exactly does BOTM get voted on these days? Seriously, it can't be design can it?

sometimes it's been a bit of a popularity contest.... until I won it that is LOL

I had a quick through it last night, I'm seeing entry after entry of poorly designed communities with little posts. I'm wondering what the criteria is if any.

there are guidelines of course - but criteria? no. not much.

Seems little point in holding the contest. Good communities used to win, well designed active communities. Now any old crap can get through. Shame.

I do agree with Chris.

I said this years ago lol. Unfortunately - I do not think vB.org is going to be changing/reforming the BOTM competition anytime soon.

Nope, its not going to be changed. How long it will continue is another question entirely.

I was thinking the same thing actually - I remember a time when a suggestion was floated around that BOTM might be BO(every 2)M or was that vB.com? I forget - but vB.com has disbanded their BOTM - I never quite understood that really...

On the occasion I nominate or vote the style is obviously the first turn on (or turn off) for me... but second I look at the forum stats... if it's a great design but has no traffic it's not BOTM material IMO. Unfortunately I think you'd really need to be a member, and an active member, of each forum before you can make an informed decision and that just isn't practical so inevitably any contest of this type will always be a popularity contest and/or style contest. That said I'm happy to see it continue, I've found a few interesting forums by reading the nominations over the years.