[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!

[no mods]

Originally Posted by 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..

Originally Posted by 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.

Both Nice sites, seconded!

[legionofangels]

Originally Posted by Caseyjr86

Site Name: Starcraft Vanilla

URL: http://www.starcraftvanilla.com

Description: Discussion for the up and coming Starcraft 2, will be offering downloads ranging from RPG's, to Bots on battle.net when SC2 is Released.

Reason for Nomination: A fairly new/low traffic site, offering up a place for people to get together and gossip about the release about starcraft 2. (Greatest game ever :P) I would love for this site to get some exposure since this is my first site and boy is it time consuming. But, this would be very rewarding for me, if this site was nominated. And also if not for me do it for SC2!

Originally Posted by 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.

I would like to second these two forum/websites please. I think the graphics work on these two sites is very good, or at least very themed towards your website. I really appreciate your effort.

2 of the others in this list have servers down or time out issues, sorries.

[CLF]

Site name: Capper's Lobby

Site URL: www.capperslobby.com

Description: This is a sports handicapping forum. It is the place, not only to talk sports, but to give your opinion.

Reason for Nomination: We want to have the best looking handicapping forum on the web. Also, we would love to hear what others have to say about it. Still working on some things.
Thanks for consideration.

[wpeloquin]

Site Name: RoadKill Cafe Counterstrike

URL: http://rkccs.com

Description: We are a popular gaming community for Counterstrike players, with 3 active servers. We have a completely customized board, with quite a few 'designed-by-us' aspects, such as our Admin List and Regs List pages (links are at the top).

Reason for Nomination: The forum skin is unique to our site, as i designed the skin myself, as well as a matching CP skin. i have customized many aspects of the board, including a nearly full-scale replacement of the original default vb images (based off the army-green images by breaker) (a select handful, such as yellow/red cards, remain default).

We have also added and customized a 2nd skin for those who like the darker boards, as well as a choice to use the vB Default skin if the user prefers. we currently have only 11 members NOT using our custom designed skin.

[unenergizer]

Site Name: CompleteGFX.com

URL: http://www.completegfx.com/

Description: We strive to provide web masters of all experience levels with low-cost, high-quality web designs and forum templates, while providing superior customer support. Our site is dedicated to support, production of our products, and professional services. We provide professional designing services, template conversions, and upgrades. Our site is unique and our design was meant to "stand out" from the rest. At CompleteGFX.com we offer free skins, such as the popular dark_vb_v2 style showcased on this site.

Reason for Nomination: CompleteGFX is committed to taking all steps of development in a professional manner. With a growing forum base and services, we are tempting to have professional tutorials and articles for everyone, not just customers. We will continue developing and releasing free and paid styles to the community along with strong support for unexperienced forum users and owners. We are taking a step to improve your website with free and paid resources. Let us help you make your site fun and unique.

[ayoko555]

Site Name: StarCraft 2 Battle

URL: http://www.sc2battle.com

Description: An unofficial Starcraft 2 fan site containing latest news, discussion, and videos. This is my 2nd vbulletin forums and still trying to improve and add more plug-ins.

Reason for Nomination: This website is still fairly new and the theme fits Starcraft perfectly. I am sure we have a lot of gamers here would like to find out more about Starcraft 2!

[exes_slayer]

Site Name: WebArea - Romanian Webmaster community

URL: http://www.webarea.ro

Description: Although the site is pretty new(4 months old) Webarea is a romanian webmaster community which contains topics/posts about programming/design/SEO and marketing guidelines. It is one of the few serious webmaster communities in romania where even beginner webmasters can seek help from expert users. Every user is just as much respected as the moderators/admins.

Reason for Nomination: I have the same dream as every vbulletin owner's dream which is to have a big and solid community with quality posts and spam reduced to minimum. In my opinion the moderating staff at webarea ar as active as they can get, around 25% of the daily posts are erased because they just don't fit the forum's standards. In my opinion my forum is pretty much unique in its way:the design is used on about two more sites(1 vbulletin(the guy who made the skin split) and 1 phpbb(a friend recoded the skin for phpbb). We have active revenue sharing on the forum and lots of mods are installed and lots of functions are powered by AJAX(we love ajax). Although the website is a webmaster community we like having fun and having a good time just like any person on earth, thats why users have the chance to change their moods, or post funny topics. The moderating team isn't too soft on the community but not too harsh either(we dont want the time spent on the forum be like in army)

[guile09]

Site Name:
NewsForum.com

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.

[wiredinoc]

Site Name:
The FlyingGiants

URL:
www.FlyingGiants.com

Description:
Online community portal dedicated to the RC modeling enthusiast. Founded in 2006, we focus on bringing the best of modeling to our members through daily homepage article updates, event coverage, live webcasts, discussions, outstanding media, and realtime news. If there's something going on in modeling worldwide, you will find it -first- on FlyingGiants.com.

Reason for Nomination:
In 18 months we have seen our membership grow to 20k members with a current average of close to 1k posts per day and over 60GB of videos and photos for our community to enjoy. Extensive modification of VB core code, custom developed CMS, and tight integration with external content and design has set us apart from the common VB website. Our passion for the hobby and online camaradie will continue to the future, and we're constantly working on new ways to improve the site. Thanks for looking, and your consideration.

[guile09]

All seconded :

Originally Posted by wiredinoc

Site Name:
The FlyingGiants

URL:
www.FlyingGiants.com

Description:
Online community portal dedicated to the RC modeling enthusiast. Founded in 2006, we focus on bringing the best of modeling to our members through daily homepage article updates, event coverage, live webcasts, discussions, outstanding media, and realtime news. If there's something going on in modeling worldwide, you will find it -first- on FlyingGiants.com.

Reason for Nomination:
In 18 months we have seen our membership grow to 20k members with a current average of close to 1k posts per day and over 60GB of videos and photos for our community to enjoy. Extensive modification of VB core code, custom developed CMS, and tight integration with external content and design has set us apart from the common VB website. Our passion for the hobby and online camaradie will continue to the future, and we're constantly working on new ways to improve the site. Thanks for looking, and your consideration.

Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by 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.