Nominations for BotM - July 2006

Here is the second contest for BotM here on vb.org.

Here are some changes we have made to the Official BotM Rules and voting. I will put the guidelines here for everybody to see them.

Originally Posted by BOTM Rules

Global Rules
1.1) No rallying whatsoever is allowed either internally at vBulletin.org or externally. Any evidence proving this will result in disqualification.
1.2) Any complaints/questions should be forwarded via Private Message to the BOTM Leaders: The Chief and Ntfu2. They will be evaluated and escalated to vBulletin.org Staff if necessary.
1.3) If a candidate wins, the candidate is not eligible to enter the Board of the Month contest for another 6 months.
1.4) All nominated boards must use vBulletin, open to all guest, and can not contain or promote any adult and/or illegal material. Any boards that go against this rule will be disqualified immediately.
1.5) The vBulletin team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate BOTM Rules and Guidelines. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.). If you have any complaints please refer to clause 1.2
1.6) vBulletin.org Staff can not nominate/second a board.

Nomination Guidelines
The Board of the Month is run on a nomination system.

* Primary Nominations can only be made by the Site Owner or Administrator.
* All Nominations must be seconded by anyone else.
* In the nomination thread, one may only nominate their board or second an already nominated board. Any other posts involving anything else will be deleted.
* Nominations will be voided if it is not seconded.
* When nominating please post the 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.
* If the nominated forum is not available at the time of creation of the poll the next nominee in line will be selected to take its place.

Voting Guidelines
* The 5 boards that have the most seconded nominations will be placed in the poll in alphabetical order.
* The thread containing the poll will be closed to any replies to prevent any unnecessary influence.
* Voting is up to the voters; no one can force or rally a vote, please visit all nominated and vote for the best board, not the board that you are most familiar with. Please check for clause 1.2 of the Global Rules section above.

Voting/Nomination Dates and Deadlines
* Nominations will begin on the 3rd of every month, and accepted for the 8 following days till the 11th.
* Actual Voting will take place during the 12th till the end of the month. This will leave you around 18 days for you to vote for your favorite board.

We are sorry to have started this a bit late, but we have had some difficulties with organization

Now let your nominations begin!

Charles

[Sean S]

Name: Static-Design
URL: http://www.static-design.com/forums
Description: Static-Design is a professional design community.

thank you.

[Snake]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Please before submitting, read the changed rules.

Until now 3 submissions:
- 1 gives me a suspended page
- 1 is leading to a portal and not to the vB board
- 1 i had to edit the text since it was promotional to a product.

Whoops sorry about that Macro. There ya go, my forums are back online once again. It was down for a while 'cause I had to move to a new server...

[Freesteyelz]

Originally Posted by Sean S

Name: Static-Design
URL: http://www.static-design.com/forums
Description: Static-Design is a professional design community.

thank you.

There's a lot of hot nominations this month but from a web designer's perspective I second Sean S' forum. The entire site is well formed and integrates nicely with vB.

[Mr. Slugworth]

I will throw mine into the pile:

Front page: http://www.mousebuzz.com
Forums: http://www.mousebuzz.com/forum

One of the biggest Disney fan forums out there. We recently had to move from our original domain, www.disneycentral.com, and with the move introduced a new design among many other features (adding a review section as I type).

[cscgal]

I'm going to go ahead and nominate by baby:

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community

Forums (of course), blogs, a code snippet library, tutorials, a link directory, an event calendar, an IRC chat network, a portal, social networking, and a lot more than I can't even remember, all completely built on top of the vB framework.

[JenniferK]

Name: PCOS Mommies
forums URL: http://www.pcosmommies.com/forums/index.php
homepage URL: http://www.pcosmommies.com/index.php
Description: A support site for moms who have PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), we opened on March 3, 2006. The original board was opened 1 year prior but was on Proboards, so we had to start from scratch.

[Cole2026]

Originally Posted by cscgal

I'm going to go ahead and nominate by baby:

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community

Forums (of course), blogs, a code snippet library, tutorials, a link directory, an event calendar, an IRC chat network, a portal, social networking, and a lot more than I can't even remember, all completely built on top of the vB framework.

Great forum, seconded.

[The Chief]

Thanks for your nominations, keep them up

[Snake]

Oh for sure, don't worry about that. :P

[MentaL]

Name: RaGEZONE
URL: http://forum.ragezone.com
Description: The largest MMORPG development community in the English language, over 190,000 members.