June / July BotM Nominations

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of June / July 2009.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of July 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!

[bbcentral]

Site Name: Blues Brothers Central (The Soul Food Cafe Forum)
URL: http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/
Description: The forum for Blues Brothers Central, based on the Soul Food Cafe in the Blues Brothers Movie
Reason for Nomination: The forum has a heavily customized theme (created by myself), with original artwork/graphics. It completely fits in with the topic of the site ("The Blues Brothers"), and it's instantly recognizable by fans.

The forum uses vBSEO to boost loading speed, it gets a lot of traffic from Google searches looking for information from the movie. It's important that those people can get the information they need without being forced to register, or wait for a slow page covered in advertising to load.

It has customized icons for each forum, as well as a Games Arcade and Chatroom ("Bob's Country Bunker"). The forum is well moderated and maintained, and there has always been a great sense of community amongst the members.

The advertising is relatively low, and much of it only displays to unregistered members.

There's still plenty of work to be done, the main website is 95% rebuilt (from scratch) and will integrate much closer with the forum. The last 5 threads will be displayed on the homepage, and related threads will display on other pages throughout the site (ie Dan Aykroyd's page will show the last 5 threads in the Dan Aykroyd forum, and so on).

[basil2070]

Site Name: CompleteThoughts
URL: http://www.completethoughts.info
Description: A social network for members to come and express whatever thoughts or feelings they may have,
Reason for Nomination: We aren't your ordinary general chat forum where the same stupid topics are posted. We have fun, in depth conversations. We aren't a website, we are a family.

[Ocean-Wonders]

Site Name: Ocean-Wonders
URL: www.ocean-wonders.co.uk
Description: On-line fish keepers community
Reason for Nomination: We are a true on-line community, with a fun, friendly, relaxed and inviting atmosphere. We actively encourage members to ask the questions they are to worried about asking on other forums of the same context. We have been established for little over 8 months and at the time of writing we have over 270 members, 1900 threads and over 21,000 posts. We have been visited over 100,000 times ! Customised forums integrated with vbadvanced. Lots of extra features including poker table, games arcade, living avatars, classifieds and casino.

[thcf]

I'd like to nominate:

Site Name: THCfarmer

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

Description: thcfarmer is a medical marijuana community

Stats: Threads: 7,259, Posts: 125,261, Members: 3,742, Active Members: 1,520

Reason for Nomination: We are trying hard to become one of the friendliest and most useful medical marijuana forums online. I have spent a considerable amount of time giving vBulletin a unique, one of a kind, custom look in layout and colors. We have also had alot of custom designed addons.

[PixelFx]

I'd like to add my personal site for nomination:

Site Name: OrBSydia DevNetwork

URL: http://www.orbsydia.ca/index.php
FORUM: http://www.orbsydia.ca/forum/

Description: OrBSydia is hobbiest based site for gaming development, and creative outlet. The sites been revamped as of january 2009, however has been online for more than 18 years now.

Reason for Nomination: Shows off the best of vbulletin, vbulletin.org addons, and custom hacks we made with vbcredits etc. And it would make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. This site's been a passion for many years now.

[veb]

Site Name: Toribash
URL: http://forum.toribash.com
Description: A forum based around a physics multiplayer fighting game
Reason for Nomination: This community has over 1million posts and 300k users. Everything on the site uses the vB API. It's a great example of how you can use vBulletin for anything: our game literally uses the vB database for user registration, user logging, game statistics and all social aspects.

Gotta love the ease of using vB.

[Cust0ms]

I love Toribash!

[Max Kwiatkowski]

Site Name: AllGoals.pl - Polish Football Board
Site URL: http://allgoals.pl
AllGoals also works in English language. Click HERE to choose english.

Description and resaon for nomination:

AllGoals.pl is one of the largest football boards in Poland. We've working since 2004.
The fans are coming to us from all over the world, talk about the latest games, exchange video material or create their own video projects (sports compilation).
We've added many hacks, which make you stay better.
The most important of these are: vBSEO (and other supplements to support SEO), vBulletin Blog, Live Scores, an advanced of galleries, a lot of statistics and occasional modifications (written by our programmers) to assist in the organization of tournaments for members.
An important advantage of the forum is own style that convinces you about our unique.
Our forum is known for the majority of Polish football fans. We are the only such forum in the country.
For this moment we have over 33.000 registered users and over 133.000 posts.
Our team is 30 people.
Every day, over 20.000 people visit us (unique visits).

[skylab]

Site Name: Nightlife Vibe
URL: www.nightlifevibe.com
Description: Nightlife music enthusiast community. Everything from DJ's, nightlife, events, equipment, clubs, concerts, genre discussions, and more. Great for artists, producers, and listeners.
Reason for Nomination: Easy interface for all users using the board without taking away any features.

[Noosphere]

Site Name: The Noosphere
URL: http://www.thenoosphere.com

Description: Taking Community to the Next Level

Reason for Nomination: In an incredibly short period of time, we have built an aesthetically attractive, highly organized, unique place on the web for intelligent posters to discuss a myriad of topics, from science, music, and art, to politics, history, and pop culture. We hold our members to a higher standard than many places on the internet, and we encourage civility, respect, and thoughtful conversation from our members. The site is built around the concept of 'the noosphere', defined as the 'sphere of human thought' (the natural evolution of the Earth beyond the physical world's 'Geosphere' and 'Biosphere'). Despite having no IT training, we have implemented a number of innovative mods on the site, and upgrade content continuously. From the second a visitor visits www.thenoosphere.com, we believe they know it's 'not just another website'.

Feature List:

Home Page
Forums
Blogs
Photopost Galleries
Reference Library
Answer Board (new)
Avatar Project (sample)
TN Light (alternate template)
TN Radio
TN Chat (members only)
Videos
TN Sphere
Featured Musical Artist
PIC of the Week
Witching Hour