Top 3 Forums - Not Yours

[legionofangels]

I had this idea for a while but never made the thread, it will probably bury anyway. After seeing someone at .com make something similar I want to ask the question.

State 3 forum boards you like/are inspired by/love the design/love the content/love the concept

YOU CANNOT LIST YOUR OWN - there are plenty of boards better than mine, and certainly many MOST likely better than yours. So give props to others for what they've done or what you like.

State why you chose those 3 boards.

(( using 3 so you don't have to list your top 10 or 20 ))

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/index.php - I emailed the owner of this site, probably never letting him know how much I respect there work. I don't even know what the forum is about, but I love there post bit in there Old Medeival style, they put the name, this colorful image and the user rank all on this bar and it just looks awesome. They also somehow did unique reputation ranks for each style...I don't know how but I'm impressed.

http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/office-management/ - first reaction is probably "what?". But these people have some unique coding as well. I'm not sure if the quote button just doesn't work, or if there is something else being done. But in certain threads you'll see "users commented on this post" and instead of searching through the thread for those quoted posts, you see within your own post who commented and what they said. I like that kind of personal interaction without having to sift through 8 posts quoting my own.

http://www.koww.net/ - those with slow connections or out of date pc's won't like this one, but of all the forums I've viewed clicking peoples sigs and just browsing, this one stood out huge. It's just so unique, so different. I mean I don't even know the game it's about, but man just viewing the forum makes we want to play it. lolz Flash is impressive it also can be annoying if overdone, or non-stop but if there is a way to use flash as a good first impression, and then the option to turn off flash displays and intro's after joining, then I think you've got a winner.

Anyways, those are my 3, anyone?