[BOTM August 2007] Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month August.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of July. Also, please note, that the current voting thread for BOTM July will remain open as well until the 31st of July.

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 include the site name or URL for the site you are seconding in your post. 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!

[jderouen]

Site Name: The Mego Museum
URL: http://megomuseum.com/community

Description: Companion forums for the The Mego Museum website, a decade-old spot on the web dedicated to collectors and enthusiasts of vintage 1970's Mego action figures. We were running on IkonBoard 2.2a for years and only recently upgraded to vBulletin, but have already added a lot of nice mods and have done a lot of customization to fit with our member's needs and wants. We offer several different styles, including one that almost perfectly emulates the old IkonBoard for those traditionalists among our group! We also hold an annual (real life) convention, print trading cards to promote the site, and more. We have close to a thousand members and have been adding new registrations daily since we switched to the much-more-robust vBulletin. We offer Arcade games for our members to play, a marketplace to buy, sell and trade their figures, a gallery to host images, and much more!

Reason for Nomination: We're really proud of our community and would like to show it off!

[christian8a]

Originally Posted by jderouen

Site Name: The Mego Museum
URL: http://megomuseum.com/community

Description: Companion forums for the The Mego Museum website, a decade-old spot on the web dedicated to collectors and enthusiasts of vintage 1970's Mego action figures. We were running on IkonBoard 2.2a for years and only recently upgraded to vBulletin, but have already added a lot of nice mods and have done a lot of customization to fit with our member's needs and wants. We offer several different styles, including one that almost perfectly emulates the old IkonBoard for those traditionalists among our group! We also hold an annual (real life) convention, print trading cards to promote the site, and more. We have close to a thousand members and have been adding new registrations daily since we switched to the much-more-robust vBulletin. We offer Arcade games for our members to play, a marketplace to buy, sell and trade their figures, a gallery to host images, and much more!

Reason for Nomination: We're really proud of our community and would like to show it off!

Seccond this one :up:

[Kebbie]

Site Name: GotTwinz?
URL: http://gottwinz.net/forums/index.php

Description: GotTwinz is a community for parents of twins. The board has been around for just under 2 years and is doing rather well. There are a lot of options available to paid members, which aren't available to regular registered members, though registered members do have a lot to choose from. GotTwinz is more than a message board, it quickly becomes an internet family to those who post there. There is also a yearly meeting held, last year was NYC, this year was Chicago and next year is Las Vegas.

Reason for Nomination: GotTwinz has come a long way and we are improving the site on a daily basis.

Site Name: The Political Asylum
URL: http://forums.thepoliticalasylum.com/index.php

Description: The Political Asylum is a place for all kinds of people to discuss politics and current events. TPA strives to be unbiased and allow everyone to voice thier opinions while still being respectful of other posters ideals. The Political Asylum is a forum for intelligent debate.
Reason for Nomination: TPA is one of the few Moderated political based forums. It's doing rather well, and we strive daily to continue to improve it.

[Egycourt]

Site Name: egycourt-forums
URL: http://www.egycourt.com/forums/
Description: Law men service and specialized information technology (for middle east law men)
Reason for Nomination: We are the only site in the middle east who care about the law men and give them a various service like law books and supports , from the other hand we offer a free legal consultation for all people .

[amnesia623]

Site Name: TalkArizona.com - Arizona News Talk and Opinion Discussion Forums

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

Description: This is a vBulletin based discussion forum for current events, political, religious, and family issues for the people of Arizona.

Reason for Nomination: While this site is fairly new, the community isn't. This is a new domain and software (impexed from SMF) upgrade from the previous domain havasutalk.com. This community has pulled together resources, time, and money (all on it's own) to improve it's 'real life' community by restoring a landmark flag in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The community is also a very close community of people that talk about some very sensitive topics such as religion and politics, the very areas where other forums refuse to go. The board runs a very basic custom skin with a ton of commercial and free add-ons including photopost pro, vbclassifieds, vbAdvanced (vbalinks too!), zoints, hot-or-not, vbSeo, and many more.

This domain is still new and I have just started marketing it via flyers, ads, and more. There is much work to do, but I would like to recognize this community not only for the software used, but for the people of the forum.

[hotcouponworld]

Well I am going to put in for this again.

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

Description: We are a deals discussion board helping people get the most out of their money. Our members collectively save THOUSANDS of dollars on everyday household and food items. We provide a coupon database with over 50,000 grocery coupons logged for people to use as a trading tool.

Reason for the Nomination: In terms of what our site means to people, we are celebrating our 1 year anniversary this month on July 10th. We have over 250K posts (not including our mod section) and the board is growing by nearly 70 members a day this month. Here's what our members have to say about our site:
http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums...ad.php?t=36034

Thanks for the consideration!

[Kebbie]

Originally Posted by hotcouponworld

Well I am going to put in for this again.

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

Description: We are a deals discussion board helping people get the most out of their money. Our members collectively save THOUSANDS of dollars on everyday household and food items. We provide a coupon database with over 50,000 grocery coupons logged for people to use as a trading tool.

Reason for the Nomination: In terms of what our site means to people, we are celebrating our 1 year anniversary this month on July 10th. We have over 250K posts (not including our mod section) and the board is growing by nearly 70 members a day this month. Here's what our members have to say about our site:
http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums...ad.php?t=36034

Thanks for the consideration!

I'll second this!

[relivo]

I am going to take the time and nominate ChefClub!

URL: http://www.chefclub.net

Description: A forum dedicated to cooking, recipes and just good and fun members!

Reason for the Nomination: Try and draw more attention to the site and get the exposure out a bit, it has a great design and I think it should be recognized!

Thanks and Good luck to all

[The Ottoman]

I would like to Nominate my site, the Red Leather Couch.

URL: http://www.redleathercouch.com

Description: A social forum made up of about 100 regular members from across the US and Canada that has been going strong for close to two years. Rooms open up to members as their post count increases.

Reason for the Nomination: I've never nominated the site before, and would love to show it off to the VB.org community.

[TruthElixirX]

Originally Posted by ERuiz

Site Name: Virtual American Airlines

URL: www.virtualaa.com/portal.php

Description: Virtual American Airlines is a site dedicated to simulating real world American Airlines operations, by using Microsoft's Flight Simulator software to allow it's members (pilots) to fly scheduled AA flights and subsequently accumulate flight hours.

Reason for Nomination: We at Virtual American Airlines strive on quality and this is clearly apparent by the way we maintain and operate our website. But what really sets us apart from the rest of the Virtual Airlines in the flightsimming community is our family-oriented environment. We have been together as a "family" since the year 2000. We originally started out as a Virtual Airline named AirPUERTORICO.

We then went through some changes and transitions, but throughout all these years, we have stayed together. I really hope you guys enjoy our website. Like I said before, we are all about quality and putting out the best that we have to offer.

Seconded.