[BOTM September 2007] Nomination Thread

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

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

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

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!

[towermatt]

Site Name--The Dark Tower.com

URL: http://www.thedarktower.com/palaver

Description: This site is a life long dream come true for me. I have been a fan of Stephen King since I was a teenager and always wondered how I could feed the addiction. While it is primarily a fan site for Stephen Kings series of books "The Dark Tower", any fan knows that everything about the man has something to do with this series. We have books and writing information--along with loads of information on the series itself.

We have only been around two months and are already climbing the search engines. Already on the first page with the keywords...the dark tower. Fans of the series will love this new fan sites ran by fans, for fans.

Reason for Nomiation: The board itself is beautiful in every way imo and I believe it should be nominated not only for that but also it is the best Stephen King fan site on the net, hands down. Also, this community has been instrumental in helping me get it off the ground

Thank you for your consideration.

[no mods]

Site Name: Type 2 Chat

URL: http://www.type2chat.com

Description: A general talk forum. With many different areas to discuss.

Reason for Nomination: Well im growing pretty good now. Have a good few active members. Plenty of fun mods and skin installed. Site is coming along quit nicely.

[RC Attacker]

Site Name: Webmaster Meets Administrator

URL: www.WebMeetsAdmin.com

Description: This is a new forum for both webmasters and administrators to talk about the things they do best. It was just moved from MyBB to vBulletin today.

Reason for Nomination: I think that my forum is unique and from what I know it is one of a kind. I'm entering it kind of early - I still have a lot to do as it has on been on vBulletin for a few hours such as create an exclusive theme, install some mods, modify the forums and many other things. But I think it still has enough potential to be entered as it is. Thanks.

[Zate]

Site Name: TampaForums.com

URL: www.TampaForums.com

Description: Tampa Based Offtopic and Social Networking Site

Reason for Nomination: This site showcases alot of firsts and "one-offs' in terms of vBulletin hacking. It was one of the first sites to share users between multiple vBulletins (shares with www.tamparacing.com), one of the first sites to have social networking features like editable profiles/friends/winks/user created groups/blogs/bulletins and much more. All that was implemented through vBadvanced with alot of custom written modules. The site (and its brother TR) are quite large and well populated for purely local sites and are the hard work of our dedicated userbase, our tireless moderators and some pretty savvy code monkeys.

[exc1te]

Site name: Polski Support vBulletin [Polish vBulletin Support]
URL: http://vBulletin.net.pl/
Description: Unofficial Polish vBulletin Support forums.
Reason for Nomination: I just want to know what others think about the site (mostly the design), and also would like to advertise a wee bit, just to increase traffic This is not first support board in Poland, but it's most professional so far (others are really bad). I think it will change the vBulletin scene in Poland, as we're quite nicely located on google and people do appreciate our support.

[KuJoe]

Originally Posted by Zate

Site Name: TampaForums.com

URL: www.TampaForums.com

Description: Tampa Based Offtopic and Social Networking Site

Reason for Nomination: This site showcases alot of firsts and "one-offs' in terms of vBulletin hacking. It was one of the first sites to share users between multiple vBulletins (shares with www.tamparacing.com), one of the first sites to have social networking features like editable profiles/friends/winks/user created groups/blogs/bulletins and much more. All that was implemented through vBadvanced with alot of custom written modules. The site (and its brother TR) are quite large and well populated for purely local sites and are the hard work of our dedicated userbase, our tireless moderators and some pretty savvy code monkeys.

Seconded FTW! I love the groups mod and the style is simple yet awesome. Overall layout is simple to navigate, yet they pack more features than most forums I've seen (yes, my forums envy them).

[dethfire]

Site Name: Physics Forums
URL: http://www.physicsforums.com
Description: Science and Homework Help Community
Reason for Nomination: Could very well be the highest quality of discussion anywhere on the web. Virtually zero spam. 20+ Staff that is grad student level and above. Nearly 20,000 homework help questions worked though. Custom LATEX addon. It speaks for itself, again extremely high quality of discussion as we have a zero tolerance crackpot policy.

[ssvp]

Site Name: F/V Northwestern
URL: forums.fvnorthwestern.com
Description: The Official Forums for the Alaska Crabber Northwestern and her Crew.
Reason for Nomination: After a week of not logging on I had 1,234 new messages.. So it's seems to be growing with crazed crab fans.. No reason really.. Just thought I'd throw it out there..

[GrZyB997]

Originally Posted by exc1te

Site name: Polski Support vBulletin [Polish vBulletin Support]
URL: http://vBulletin.net.pl/
Description: Unofficial Polish vBulletin Support forums.
Reason for Nomination: I just want to know what others think about the site (mostly the design), and also would like to advertise a wee bit, just to increase traffic This is not first support board in Poland, but it's most professional so far (others are really bad).

I second this board, becouse i think it will change the bad situation on polish vbulletin scene.

[soletrader]

Site Name: Traders Laboratory

URL: www.TradersLaboratory.com

Description: A financial forum for active traders mainly dealing with derivatives.

Reason for Nomination: We have a ton of custom work done on the site. The system is a complete makeover of vbulletin with unique skin and look.