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Site Name: GameGeekSpeak
URL: http://gamegeekspeak.com/

Description: Gamers community board offering podcasts, discussions, news, interviews and contests. The community support allows for hosted guilds which get forums, calendars and teamspeak all at no costs and ad free. Finally, the community donations are used to fund contests, game servers for sponsored clans and reimburse staff their monthly MMO fees as a reward for their contributions.

Reason for Nomination: After the past 3 years running sites on DotNetNuke and CommunityServer, I can tell you just how much better vBulletin is for someone new to vBulletin, this community and LAMP.

This site is up as of today for 3 weeks, is heading towards 3000 posts and is running all of the bells and whistles that make for a great, fun vBulletin community. The ease at which you can use the resources of vBulletin and the vBulletin community today to get not just up and running, but running huge is amazing. Integration out of the box and via mods and hacks is amazing.

Podcasts: I let my goal of podcasts go for over a year because the prior forums I worked with had no support, then when it came out, it was just horrible.
Photo Gallery: Can you imagine my joy at being able to actually move pictures, rename them and delete them?
Stats: You mean I don't need to manually run SQL reports, the forums have it already?
RSS feeds to populate forums: What, you mean I dont need to mnaully copy past in news items.

CommunityServer has no Community in it. Just broken features, lack of support, no mods, hacks and barely visible add-ons. Yet core features of the product just do not work. Get hit by SPAM? Check of the box hide this users posts. Then find out that a key feature in the base UI does nothing. And when you post about it, the CS community is not shocked or suprised.

So, GameGeekSpeak is running, and after working with different forums and software products for years, I cannot express how much I wish I had gone to vBulletin from the beginning. Thank you all for everything.

But what makes it the BOTM is how easy it ease to get all this going, and it all works and is rock solid. The bonus to this as a BOTM is my personal experience and frustrations with vBulletins competitors and a final remark, "Go vBulletin and have zero regrets."