[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!

[jrwap]

Site Name: Club-tC

URL: http://www.club-tc.com or http://www.club-tc.com/forums/ (for the forums)

Description: Club-tC is place for Scion tC owners and enthusiasts to gather and share ideas about repairing, upgrading, racing, and customizing their cars.

Reason for Nomination: Club-tC features a Wordpress front end integrated with a vBulletin forum. Features include: Dynamic Homepage, News Articles, Technical Articles, vBulletin Forums, tC Garage Gallery, Classifieds System, Videos Area, and much more.

Everything is completely integrated into vBulletin!

Thanks,

-JRW

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Originally Posted by tpearl5

Second!

I agree... nice site... second!

-JRW

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by 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.

Second.

[carcomp]

Site Name: The Quad4Forums
URL: www.vbulletin.org

Description:
A site for people devoted to the General Motors Quad4 and Twincam engines and the vehicles they came in

Reason for Nomination:
I nominate this board b/c of its simple, yet extremely functional design, and its perserverence to weather the storm. This site has undergone an owner change, a server crash, a database corruption (months of which were spent offline hand-rebuilding the SQL database), as well as multiple hacks from random places and people.
The userbase of this site is phenomenal. They are not only online friends, but personal friends who organize meets in different places around the country (see the quadbash), and are there for their fellow boardmates. When I lost my job and my car broke down, a few members sent me the parts I needed, no questions asked.
This board represents what a true vbulletin board should be like. Friendly, knowledgeable members, a decent server/hosting suite, and administrators not afraid to make changes for the better.

Things to check out....
The active EVO chatbox.
The ajax search feature built into the navbar.
The main page with the "factory cars" image integration.
Recent threads scrolling in the header.

(Simple, yet functional)

[abbasbsp]

Site Name: Forum Repair Ponsel
URL: http://forum-repairponsel.com/index.php
Description: forum-repairponsel.com is a community of GSM CDMA and people interested discussing and sharing knowledge related to mobiles hardware, software and trick solution
Reason for Nomination: Forum Repair Ponsel is a highly customized site that has been online since 13-05-2008. Over 65 vbulletin.org plugins have been tastefully added along with custom modifications and theme that completes the user's experience. the site has over 5,601 members, 4,478 threads and 27,691 posts

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by glennybee

Site Name: Digital Kaos Forums
URL: http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums
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Originally Posted by tpearl5

Site Name: Cell Phone Forums
URL: http://cellphoneforums.net

2nd both these

[Rocket 442]

Originally Posted by MoMan

Site Name: PentaxForums.com
URL: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/

Originally Posted by beansbaxter

[B]Site Name - Sin City Sportbikes
URL: http://scsportbikes.com

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Site Name: Cell Phone Forums
URL: http://cellphoneforums.net

Second these 3.

[Audax666]

Site Name: Sub-cultures
URL: www.sub-cultures.de
Description: Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Punk, Oi subculture Forum
Reason for Nomination:
After a complete makeover with a handmade design and the modified video directory the forum is now worth a look.
It's the only german community which covers all areas of subculture (too much to name all of them) , that's why it should be board of the month. And of course the fine design.
Thanks for your votes....

[scott_237]

Site Name: Konoha-Village
URL: www.konoha-village.com
Description: Anime fan forum about the popular Naruto series.

Reason for Nomination: This forum has been built up and established to a pretty high standard in just 4 Months. At the time of this post the forum has 1679 members, 1326 threads, 42875 posts and in its current state gets close to 1k unique visitors a day. A great deal of work has been put into the forum on page and off page with the SEO of the forum ranking it high up for its targeted keywords in Google, thanks to anyone who votes

[Ziki]

I nominate my site:



Site Name: KXDesign
URL: www.kxdesign.com
Description: Custom and pre-made vBulletin modifications
Reason for Nomination: I always tried to make my site and my mods unique and I think this time,it's exactly what it should be.

[Ziki]

Originally Posted by thcf

I'd like to nominate:

Site Name: THCfarmer

URL: http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/

Description: thcfarmer is a medical marijuana community

Stats: Threads: 5,031, Posts: 81,377, Members: 2,798

Reason for Nomination: its my site

Second