[April / May 2009] BOTM Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of April / May 2009.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of March 2009.

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.

Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to King Kovifor or an administrator.

Best of luck to all nominees!

[veenuisthebest]

Site Name: India Talks
URL: http://indiatalks.in
Description: Where India actually talks!
Reason for Nomination: An online community exclusively for Indians and for all the people around the globe who love India.

[RedeemedWarrior]

Site Name: Christ First Forums & RPG
URL: www.christfirstforums.com
Description: Conservative Christian community forum running over 60 modifications with a Large Section dedicated to Role playing games.
Reason for Nomination: We're months 10 old next month so I thought it was time i nominated it

[guile09]

Site Name:
NewsForum

URL:
www.NewsForum.com

Description:
NewsForum.com is a fairly new community designed for discussion of all the latest news headlines and hot topics.

Reason for Nomination: Our goals are to bring several news sources and opinions together into one place so that all sides of a story can be heard, allowing members to draw their own conclusions.

We have tried to keep the design as simple and fast loading as possible, yet still keep the "news" theme intact.

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Site Name:
FightForum

URL:
www.FightForum.com

Description:
Mixed martial arts and boxing discussion community focusing on the UFC, PrideFC, K1 and other combat sports.

Reason for Nomination: In less than 2 years, FightForum has become an extremely popular web destination for many Boxing and MMA fans. We have a great team of moderators that uphold very high standards and make this site what it is.

The design is very simple, with minimal styles changes to keep the site looking attractive yet fast loading and simple to upgrade.

[colochris]

Site Name:
BowlingBoards.com

URL:
www.BowlingBoards.com

Description:

BowlingBoards.com is an online bowling forum community. We focus on the bowlers needs such as forums, score tracking software, tournament listings and more. With so many sites that allow flaming, cursing, adult material and more, it was the desire to build a site with Ethics, Dignity, and Values in mind. BowlingBoards.com is a site for people who love the game of bowling to enjoy talking about the game without the abuse of other forums.

Reason for Nomination:

We work with youth bowlers all the way up to seniors. We are a Family Friendly bowling forum with no adult material, cursing, or flaming of any kind. We care about people and the communities we all live in. We have sponsorship opportunities for bowlers who due to a lack of funds are unable to bowl.


Conclusion

Thank you for considering us for your highly honored BOTM Program. We hope that you will give BowlingBoards.com the chance to represent your great award.

Chris

[Mahar]

Site Name: Game Renegades
Site URL: www.gamerenegades.com
Description: Gamers, Prepare for the Renegade Revolution
Reason for Nomination: A Gaming community with many options for our users including Counter Strike Servers and a gaming Wikipedia(Coming soon).

[Chadi]

Site Name: Talk Jesus
URL: www.talkjesus.com
Description: True Non-Denominational 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. 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 350+ 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 in 24 translations, 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, 12,000 members and on average about 50-100 posts per day. All registrations are moderated first to weed out any potential troublemakers. All photos are also moderated first as well for obvious reasons. Talk Jesus forums has a built in live chat with over 150+ songs in a neatly integrated mp3 player (left column of the live chat). Our chat is able to handle well over 50 concurrent users, especially during our occasional massive prayer events.

Talk Jesus has many awesome features to make it a one-for-all amazing experience to be part of the community. A quick run down of the features provided are (mostly mods taken from this site, approximately 90 mods installed currently)...

• personal journals
• live chat w/ mp3 player
• iSpy
• Tag Clouds view & search
• arcade games with 350+ games
• streaming radio & tv player of Christian stations
• Stumble Upon like feature, shows random threads
• Bible Glossary - over 500+ terms included
• High quality Bible / Scripture Maps (over 100+)
• Complete online Bible in dozen+ translations, commentaries, stories
• Scriptural Answers (ie, FAQ like questions/answers on common Bible topics) alphabetically sorted in a dedicated forum.

[Bisha]

Site Name: Lirenti.com
URL: http://lirenti.com
Description: Hi-Tech Albanian community!
Reason for Nomination: An online community for Albanian people about technology and new researches. The most important reason that I'm participating is that we're new to vBulletin software (we switched this week) and give as a chance. We have a very friendly staff and they speak more than two languages. We are working to build a really big portal.

Thanks

[christian8a]

Site Name: eibuddy.com
URL: http://www.eibuddy.com
Description: Community similar to facebook, Old facebook!
Reason for Nomination: This site turned out so great, it deserves to see it. The people is great and the design is outstanding.

[glennybee]

Site Name: Digital Kaos Forums
URL: http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums
Description: Digital Forum dedicated to the help and support of its members. We specialise in cable and satellite tv (Dreambox, Technomate), games consoles (xbox360, PS3, Wii, etc.), Mobile phones, Sat Nav GPS, PC tech help and support, etc.

Reason for Nomination:

Digital Kaos has been online for 10 months and it has taken flight at a tremendous pace! We regularly get 7000+ unique visitors and approximately 600+ new posts daily.
We've recently passed the 130,000 posts milestone which is a great acheivement in such a short time.
In December, we invested in a custom style for the forum, completely unique and it's fitting for our niche. The members love the change.

We have a few forum features that you probably wouldn't find on other forums.

MP3 Search facility - listen online, search lyrics, download tracks, etc. all FREE. (files not stored on our server)
Rapidshare Search facility - Search for those illusive rapidshare.com links.
KaosTube - Our own version of YouTube with our own collection of great videos.
Live Sport Streams and Live Football Scores from around the world!

Stats: Threads: 27,024, Posts: 132,302, Members: 35,158

Thanks for reading and I hope we've done enough to gain your nomination.