[June/July 2008] BOTM Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of June 2008.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of May

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:
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.

Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Danny.VBT.

Best of luck to all nominees!

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by laserterd

Site Name: Spectra Forum
Site URL: http://www.spectraforum.com
Short Summary: A discussion about lasers, laser pointers, and the sort.

I second this one.

[Boosted Panda]

Site Name:
Yorkiechat.net

URL:
http://www.yorkiechat.net/forum/index.php

Description:
Donation based Yorkieshire Terrier Community. Two Month old website with 421 members, almost 65,000 posts, 200 donating members, and steady growth.

Reason for Nomination:
Extremely friend and fast growing! Just celebrating our 3 month anniversary in 15 days YC has grown beyond belief. Some of the reasons I feel YC should be the Board of the Month is the extensive modding and custom content while staying true to the vBulletin feel. Some mods installed, a custom retrofitted iTrader System with phpClassifieds, custom retrofitted Awards Systems with automatic awards, custom theme and postbit, MGC Chatbox, vBulletin.org System Template Modifications, Arcade, Thank You Hack System, vBadvanced, a custom Breeder Section and Members Area, and many other smaller mods!

[wicked80]

Tried for April and May but did not made through ...Will give it one last try for the month of June.We made some major changes and would like to nominate our site:

Site Name: CricFever

URL: http://www.cricfever.com

Description: CricFever is a website for cricket fans all around the globe. CricFever provides the latest cricket videos, cricket forums, cricket groups,blogs and lot's more.

Reason for Nomination: We would like to know how we are going and how we can improve our site more for the 10k+ users.Thanks for time and consideration.

[glennybee]

Site Name: Digital Kaos
URL: http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk

Description: Digital Kaos Forums - Dreambox Support Forum from the very best. We offer support, help and advice for all models of dreambox including dm500, dm600, dm7000, dm800 & dm8000. We also have forums for games consoles, cable and satellite tv, mobile phones/PDAs, PC help and Home Entertainment.

Reason for Nomination: Site has been active just short of 3 months and we already have 1,450+ members and 13,500+ posts. Several mods done to the site including new style which is very easy on the eyes. Very friendly member base and always willing to help. We're not here to make money, only to help.

Thanks

[JJ the Fox]

Site Name: Teal and Black

URL: http://www.tealandblack.net

Description: Florida Marlins Baseball Fan Site
Reason for Nomination: Just a few months old fan site with a dedicated user base. A smooth, clean design with user maintained blogs and other marlin features that coexist with the board seamlessly.

The forum utilizes several vbulletin.org template modifications, plug-ins and products and we feel is a good showcase to what those can do.

[Chadi]

Site Name: Talk Jesus
URL: www.talkjesus.com
Description: True 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. There is no room to allow for personal religious/own version of GOD and the Holy Bible. 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 200+ 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, 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, nearly 11,000 members and on average 150 posts per day.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by JJ the Fox

Site Name: Teal and Black

URL: http://www.tealandblack.net

Description: Florida Marlins Baseball Fan Site
Reason for Nomination: Just a few months old fan site with a dedicated user base. A smooth, clean design with user maintained blogs and other marlin features that coexist with the board seamlessly.

The forum utilizes several vbulletin.org template modifications, plug-ins and products and we feel is a good showcase to what those can do.

I second this site, being a native Floridian

[CampinCarl]

Site Name: USGcommunity.com
URL: http://usgcommunity.com/forums/index.php
Description: Gaming community in cs:s cs 1.6, and tf2
Reason for Nomination: I spent a long time on the template and whatnot, so i just thought id nominate it so people can see it . It has image resizer, donations, and a modified reputations mod that displays differently.

[StonePilot]

Site Name: GMTruckClub
URL: www.gmtruckclub.com
Description: Chevy and GMC Truck website
Reason for Nomination:

• GMTruckClub.com has grown consistently over the past 4 years to become a leading auto website for Chevy and GMC trucks.

• It's consistently ranked highly in the search engines and earns 400+ new members monthly. Through the native power of vBulletin, the site has earned top 5 SERPs for major keywords.

• Best of all, its a great resource to get questions answered - a great community atmosphere. Auto enthusiasts helping other enthusasts ... drama free too.

[chimaira]

Site Name: PRMC, Potential Royal Marine Forum
URL: http://www.prmc.co.uk
Description: Royal Marine, Pre Join up fitness
Reason for Nomination:

A forum dedicated to boosting the young lads fitness in preperation towards there 4 day potential royal marines course at lympstone, a very beneficial site for anyone wanting to become a Royal Marine, Many serving Royal Marines onboard at the site to help you with anything you need in preperation, This forum is a great tool to getting young lads in tip top fitness shape for when they start there PRMC and Recruit training at Royal Marine training centre, Lympstone, Exmouth

* Last 8 weeks, had 35,000 google searches
* From over 30 countries & over 500 000 page views have been undertaken in that period