[BOTM October 2007] Nomination Thread

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

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 30th of September. Also, please note, that the current voting thread for BOTM September will remain open as well until the 30th of September 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:

Quote:
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!
-Roms

[ManagerJosh]

Originally Posted by Floris

Site Name: We Talk TV

URL: http://wetalk.tv

Description: The discussion forum for lovers of TV shows, YouTube, IPTV and TiVo, etc. A great community that started just recently with a great team, nice content and a good board set-up. September fall season started, so a great time to get back into TV.

Reason for Nomination: Communities are growing every day and despite the already many TV related sites we feel we are a great place for friends who want to share information about TV shows and hardware with eachother, and a great place to find new friends with similar interest. We have various modifications installed, from simple tweaks to the underlying design to a more drastic vBSEO, a blog, and chat. Unique plugins such as TV Showbox above the threadlist and we're building a unique custom style to give face to our strongly growing community. We believe that despite a young site we qualify for a review from the experienced community users here and introduce them to another great community.

Second (or Third) for WeTalk.tv

[Allan]

Originally Posted by 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.

Second ^^

[a1whs.com]

Site Name: Bookmark My Services

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

Description:
A Forums dedicated to Stumblers,Diggers,and those interested in social bookmarking sites, service exchanges like forum posting,post to host, content exchange like blog comment exchanges and other web related services !! Place to advertise your services for free basically.

Reason for Nomination:
This is fairly new board (hmm like less than 36 hrs hour old) and personally i have spent lots of time in creating the gradients and color theme, with lots of hacks and mods installed. And is growing at a good rate. Also lets be frank here for advertising it free at this wonderful site vbulletin.org .

[jawatkin]

Site Name:
WebkinzInsider Webkinz Forums
URL:
www.webkinzinsider.com/forum
Description:
Third-party fan site for discussion of Webkinz virtual pets & virtual world.
Reason for Nomination:
WebkinzInsider was launched on March 23rd, 2007, and in 5.5 months has become the leading information source and place of activity in the Webkinz Community. This is a diverse community, in terms of the age demographic, ranging from under 10 years old to over 60.

As of this writing, we are approaching 25,000 members, & 1.2 Million posts. During the summer, we were averaging 300+ new users a day (our best day was 413), but now that school has started, we are (only) adding 175-200 per day.

This is a highly-modified template to match the Joomla template on the landing page, and for all the content articles, with a great deal of graphics involved. We've also created a "Safe trading" area to trade virtual items, in which people have to pass a relatively rigorous application and use the iTrader mod to keep track of our "good traders". Over 75,000 virtual trades and very few (less than 20) of our members have been scammed on a trade. At this point, we feel that it's "good enough" to submit, so here it is!

[Scathmere]

Site Name: Klash Boards
URL: http://www.klashboards.com
Description: A general discussion and humor forum. Lots of mods, and a great community.
Reason for Nomination: The community stands out the most, it's a great group of people.

[FallenMorgan]

Site Name: Imperial Gaming
URL: http://www.imperial-gaming.net
Description: A site devoted to PC games, namely First Person Shooters.
Reason for Nomination: The site is only a month old, but is somewhat all put together in the sense that there are very few instances of something not having white pixels around it. We use a wide variety of products, plugins, and mods.

[CristianoDiaz]

Site Name: SLUniverse.com
URL: http://forums.sluniverse.com
Description: SLUniverse is the largest and longest running community site dedicated to the virtual world of Second Life.
Reason for Nomination: This summer, the long running (4 year) forums were replaced with a brand new vbulletin installation, a painful but necessary move to grow the site. Using vbulletin as the base, the site has been transformed into a tightly integrated community site by using additional addon products (vbAdvanced, Photopost Classifieds, vbAdvanced Links Directory,vBulletin Blogs) and plugins to provide a consistent user experience. The site also provides two dramatically different themes based upon user preference. Extensive work continues on further integrating and adding new features, but the results already have been worthwhile. The site currently has over 1 million visitors a month, and hopefully the work put into improving it will pay off in even more growth.

[enjoyyaself]

Site Name: Enjoyyaself.com
URL: www.enjoyyaself.com/forum
Description: A general based discussion forum with a lot of diverse individuals.

Reason for Nomination: Enjoyyaself stays true to its name by allowing it's members the right to discuss what they please without having to worry about admins or mods abusing their powers. We provide a very relaxed online environment. We are only six months old and have already attracted close to three thousand members and growing each day. Come check us out.

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by no mods

Site Name:Type 2 Chat

URL: http://www.type2chat.com/

Description: A general talk forum with many things to do.

Reason for Nomination: Lets see. We are a growing comuunity, with many things to offer. From are arcade with a 1,000+ games two are crazy smileys. Were a nice community and would love to have you as part of it, we dont bite So what are you waiting for? Oh and I also release some skins under type2chat, Cool eh? We also have a bot, who isnt very bright, but is pretty fun to talk two, just dont feed it after 12:00, bad things happen:erm:. Any ways, did I mention we have around 40 skins installed? I just couldnt help myself. So I will now end this silly rant. Thank you for your time.

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2nd

[TR?PST?R]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Site Name: vBCredits.com
URL: www.vbcredits.com
Description: Official vBCredits Support Site
Reason for Nomination: The best place for support for vBCredits and submitting bug reports and suggestions in an orderly manner. Also includes directory of addons and styles and other scripts that I create. Also looks pretty and naturally, the site to test both current and upcoming versions of all my scripts, including vBCredits.

I fourth this site.