[BOTM November 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 31st of October. Also, please note, that the current voting thread for BOTM October will remain open as well until the 31th of October 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!

[Jon.]

I'll second militarysos.com. Looks like a nice community (even if I am the wrong gender to appreciate it).

[Calash]

Originally Posted by vertigo jones

Site Name: Stirrdup

URL: http://www.stirrdup.com

Description: Uncensored Social News. Members submit all the cool stories they find on the internet and our custom passive voting system promotes the ones that get the most attention. We have a brand new friend system that makes it simple to share what you're in to with your buddies.

Reason for Nomination: Stirrdup is one the most unique uses for Vbulletin and we're growing rapidly. Thanks for your second!

Wow......I really had to hunt to figue out it was vBulletin. You have done a great job with this.


My Seconds
1: http://www.stirrdup.com
2: http://www.obesitydiscussion.com/forums/
3:

[aceofspades]

Site Name: Hiven.net
URL: www.hiven.net
Description: Mature Gaming Community
Reason for Nomination: The hiven has been a place for mature gamers to come and play with like minded people since 2002. We are also involved in CAL, TWL and OGL competitive gaming leagues. Since then we have picked up a lot of members and have used vbulletin as the base of our site with a custom skin. Please second us if you like the communtiy.

--------------- Added [DATE]1193486243[/DATE] at [TIME]1193486243[/TIME] ---------------

I'll second Accel - thecarforum.net (http://www.thecarforum.net/forum)

(btw, im also from Kent!)

[XxBuLLeTz]

Site Name: HaloArena
URL: www.haloarena.com
Description: Halo 3 Forums, Tournaments & Videos
Reason for Nomination: HaloArena has a good design, and loyal members which keeps it running. The site supports Halo 3, which is the biggest entertainment launch in American history.

[Ziki]

Site Name: Ziki's Hideout~The Hideout From Reality
URL: www.zikihideout.com
Description: vBulletin modifications,hacks and services
Reason for Nomination: The main reason I am nominating because my board has wanted hacks to offer (paid).We also provide help and support for unofficial hacks or just for the usual vBulletin users.

[BuRaCh]

Originally Posted by Ziki

Site Name: Ziki's Hideout~The Hideout From Reality
URL: www.zikihideout.com
Description: vBulletin modifications,hacks and services
Reason for Nomination: The main reason I am nominating because my board has wanted hacks to offer (paid).We also provide help and support for unofficial hacks or just for the usual vBulletin users.

my faworite.seconded

[Joshyyy]

Site Name:
Assault Elites Community Forum

URL:
http://www.assaultelites.com/forum/index.php

Description: Steam Gaming Community Forum (Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Team Fortress, etc)

Reason for Nomination:
AssaultElites is a slowly growing active community with just over 100+ members, were not massive ill admit it, but we seem to grow a little bit more day by day, winning board of the month would be a nice thing to bring to the community as myself and the team have put a lot on work into making it what it is.

[FallenMorgan]

Originally Posted by BrandiDup

Site Name: Military Significant Others and Spouse Support (MilitarySOS)
URL: http://militarysos.com
Description: a support site for military spouses and significant others

Reason for Nomination:
I believe our site changes lives for military significant others who have no other means of support. A lot of our members have deployed husbands, no family around and have been forced to leave good friends behind everytime they have to move to a new duty station. Our site allows members to access information that can sometimes be hard to find even directly from a command, gain knowledge from people who have actually "BTDT" (been there, done that), make "portable friends" that they don't have to leave behind at a duty station and find support even at 2am.

I started the site as NavySOS.com about three years ago, but eventually expanded to include all branches because I had the desire to offer the same support and resources to all branches, not just Navy. Since our expansion in Jan of 2006, we have more than tripled in size, by post count and member base.

I've put hundreds, possibly even thousands, of hours of work into this site, not to mention the money I've put into it, but the lives that our site changes for the better, is what makes everything completely worth it.

Edited to add: most of our forums are open to public but there are a couple of forums that I'm not able to open up to all public b/c we have them set for members to have more than 250 posts to access, mostly for security reasons (personal health subjects, photo albums with our children's photos, etc). I do have most open to public though, and I hope this fits within the requirements.

Seconded. It's heartwarming to see sites like this

[smacklan]

Originally Posted by BrandiDup

Site Name: Military Significant Others and Spouse Support (MilitarySOS)
URL: http://militarysos.com
Description: a support site for military spouses and significant others

Reason for Nomination:
I believe our site changes lives for military significant others who have no other means of support. A lot of our members have deployed husbands, no family around and have been forced to leave good friends behind everytime they have to move to a new duty station. Our site allows members to access information that can sometimes be hard to find even directly from a command, gain knowledge from people who have actually "BTDT" (been there, done that), make "portable friends" that they don't have to leave behind at a duty station and find support even at 2am.

I started the site as NavySOS.com about three years ago, but eventually expanded to include all branches because I had the desire to offer the same support and resources to all branches, not just Navy. Since our expansion in Jan of 2006, we have more than tripled in size, by post count and member base.

I've put hundreds, possibly even thousands, of hours of work into this site, not to mention the money I've put into it, but the lives that our site changes for the better, is what makes everything completely worth it.

Edited to add: most of our forums are open to public but there are a couple of forums that I'm not able to open up to all public b/c we have them set for members to have more than 250 posts to access, mostly for security reasons (personal health subjects, photo albums with our children's photos, etc). I do have most open to public though, and I hope this fits within the requirements.

Excellent site and very well done! I will add my second to this very deserving site

[mertron]

Site Name: r10.net
URL: www.r10.net
Description: The Unofficial Turkish Google Fan forum. Because we love Google!

Reason for Nomination: The biggest webmaster forum for Turkey. R10.net is one of the most popular Google fan communities online, and we have one of the largest repositories of Google-related information online.