[April / May 2009] BOTM Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of April / May 2009.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of March 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!

[miner]

Originally Posted by fly4food84

Site Name: Pilot Buzz
URL: http://www.pilotbuzz.com
Description: A brand new community for aviation professionals.
Reason for Nomination: The community's theme suits it well, graphics are fantastic.

Originally Posted by akoj

Site Name: BeTweenTalk
URL: http://www.betweentalk.com/
Description: Site for kids ages 8-13
Reason for Nomination: Many mods have been integrated to make this a unique, heavily moderated site for kids 8-13 years. VBcredits is used in conjunction with Living Avatars and IBProarcade. VBlogs are integral to the site. Recent custom skin work by Miner created two unique looks, one for younger kids (default) and one for older (http://www.betweentalk.com/?styleid=15)

A few of the mods used (and with great appreciation to the coders)

VBlogs
Living Avatars
VBcredits
Advanced Forum Stats
IBProArcade
Latest Album Pictures
GXBoxLive
Profile Fields In Postbit Dropdown
Inactive User Email
VBSEO
VBadvanced

Top rated google spots (usually in 1st postition) for 'tween forum' and 'kids forum'.

I second both the above...

[sportwiz628]

Site Name: Sports Lounge Central
URL: sportsloungecentral.com
Description: Forum dealing with all sports and is growing quick (pretty new)
Reason for Nomination: It will soon be a top forum and has many dedicated members

[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.
Reason for Nomination: Although were a new website, we have a plan to grow exponentially fast. Our mission is to provide an easy interface for all users using the board without taking away any features.

[paintballer.ie]

Sitename: PaintBaller.ie - The Home of Paintball in Ireland

URL: http://www.paintballer.ie

Description:
PaintBaller.ie is Ireland only dedicated paintball website. It is much more than a website and webforum, but for its members it is a way of life. Up until March 2009, it was phpbb based with a content management system, but not it is rolling with vbulletin, vbadvanced and vbseo.

It is a very close night community, those that are registered yet we get large amounts of visitors who come for the quality content / articles and some stay for the community. We use flash chat4 for our evening chats for who ever is online.

We organise monthly paintball outings where the board members all get to meet up in person and shoot each other , which is uncommon for a internet forum.

Some of the hacks installed are:
Facebook Connect
Front page slide show
Automatic Thread Tagger
Cyb Chatbox
Flastchat
Live topic
VB Blogs
Subforum manager
PM enhancements
vbadvanced are all but to name a few.

The style is custom, detailed yet simple. People can find the information they want in the easily arranged forums. The domain has been around for 2 years now and ranks 2-3 in our own country for the main keywords and very high every where else for important paintball keywords.

Check it out and if you are impressed in the first 10 seconds, then second this nomination

[nando99]

seconded....

Originally Posted by paintballer.ie

Sitename: PaintBaller.ie - The Home of Paintball in Ireland

URL: http://www.paintballer.ie

Description:
PaintBaller.ie is Ireland only dedicated paintball website. It is much more than a website and webforum, but for its members it is a way of life. Up until March 2009, it was phpbb based with a content management system, but not it is rolling with vbulletin, vbadvanced and vbseo.

It is a very close night community, those that are registered yet we get large amounts of visitors who come for the quality content / articles and some stay for the community. We use flash chat4 for our evening chats for who ever is online.

We organise monthly paintball outings where the board members all get to meet up in person and shoot each other , which is uncommon for a internet forum.

Some of the hacks installed are:
Facebook Connect
Front page slide show
Automatic Thread Tagger
Cyb Chatbox
Flastchat
Live topic
VB Blogs
Subforum manager
PM enhancements
vbadvanced are all but to name a few.

The style is custom, detailed yet simple. People can find the information they want in the easily arranged forums. The domain has been around for 2 years now and ranks 2-3 in our own country for the main keywords and very high every where else for important paintball keywords.

Check it out and if you are impressed in the first 10 seconds, then second this nomination

[Switch02]

Site Name:
SportGFX - Football Wallpapers, Soccer Pictures, Photos and Graphic Contests

URL:
http://sportgfx.com/forum

Description:
The best site for Football Graphics, Photoshop Resources and Tutorials.
Browse through our huge free collection of high quality, high resolution up-to-date football Wallpapers Pictures, Photos and Images of all football soccer teams and players of the world!

Reason for Nomination:
In less than 2 years, SportGFX has become an extremely popular Community destination for many Soccer and Football fans.
Our goal is to see our members improving their graphics skills in a friendly place.

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[iTaLiAnBoY165]

2nd this.

Originally Posted by nando99

Site Name:
Fat Boy Magazine
URL:
http://www.fatboymag.com
Description:
Men's entertainment. Hot girls (no nudity), funny videos, funny pictures, jokes, movies, sports, MMA, poker and you get the point... my favorite way to describe it: It's like guys shooting the sh!t over a beer... online.
Reason for Nomination:
It's more then a forum, more then a site - it's members call it home. The whole site runs on Vbulletin, its extremely customized.

[SeeLand]

Site Name: Forum Detectoare de Radar

URL: http://www.radarsdetector.ro

Description: Forum about radar detectors.Discussion detectors on each brand in the radar.

Reason for Nomination: Would like to show off something little different.

[Jorge Gomez]

Originally Posted by nando99

Site Name:
Fat Boy Magazine
URL:
http://www.fatboymag.com
Description:
Men's entertainment. Hot girls (no nudity), funny videos, funny pictures, jokes, movies, sports, MMA, poker and you get the point... my favorite way to describe it: It's like guys shooting the sh!t over a beer... online.
Reason for Nomination:
It's more then a forum, more then a site - it's members call it home. The whole site runs on Vbulletin, its extremely customized.

:O

Seconded.

[ArnyVee]

Very nice work on A LOT of the sites. But, I have to nominate these three!

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Site Name: 8WayRun
URL: http://www.8wayrun.com/

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

Site Name: India Talks
URL: http://indiatalks.in

Originally Posted by glennybee

Site Name: Digital Kaos Forums
URL: http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums

Congratulations to a TON of great communities out there! I commend all of you forum owners for the work you've put in! Great job!