April-May 2009 BOTM Poll

**Rocket 442** · 04-26-2009, 08:46 PM

Here are the 5 Nominees for April-May BOTM.

Good luck to all, and it was really hard for us to narrow it down to just 5.

PC-HelpForum
University of Mom
Diesel Bombers
The Best Forum Ever
IndiaTalks

**Brandon Sheley** · 04-26-2009, 08:57 PM

Good luck everyone!

**glennybee** · 04-26-2009, 09:03 PM

Good luck everyone! My vote is cast!

**juster** · 04-27-2009, 01:21 AM

Gave mine too, to UoM. Nice boards, but this one was my favorite!

**Big Dan** · 04-27-2009, 01:48 AM

I don't know if we're supposed to review the sites posted but I took a stab at it. From first glances:

India Talks - Has a real nice layout, nice color scheme and a great header image.

UofMom - Not quite my type of site

but looks really informative and community oriented.

PC Help Forum - I cannot read it but I really like the flash notice showing people how to register/login

The Best Forum Ever - Also has a great layout although from the homepage, I cannot tell what the site is about..The best forum ever.....the best what forum? I'm going assume gaming based on one of the images I see on the page.

Diesel Bombers - Looks pretty cool, like the logo and forums makers, could probably benefit from making the guest notice an image map, unless the vBSEO 'trick' is being used so that SEs don't see all that text on every page. Probably could benefit from an actual front page instead of just a forum index (I'm no one to talk, my forum is the same way) but just a suggestion.

Not sure who I'm voting for yet, It's a close tie between India Talks an UofMom but the flash registration tutorial on the PC help site is really cool too.

**Brandon Sheley** · 04-27-2009, 07:56 AM

feel free to review

It was tough for us to narrow it down to these 5, I think we had 30 to choose from.
Some great forums all together

**juster** · 04-27-2009, 08:37 AM

I did not put mine in because I thought other languages would not be a succes, but now I see a Belgian board online, I sure will add mine the next time.

**Bruwizzle** · 04-27-2009, 12:40 PM

India talks does the trick for me....great, relevant skin and nice break down of topics...

**ArnyVee** · 04-28-2009, 07:25 PM

Wow, I'm having a real tough time with this one. All are good, but three are really solid looking at first glance. Hmm....tough call.

Diesel has put a ton of work in on his site and it's lookin' solid.
Best Forum Ever has a beautiful look to the site as well as a real clean layout.
India Talks has tons of great touches on the site and attention to detail to the max.

Sheesh...I think I'm going to have to keep thinkin' about this one.

**fattony69** · 04-29-2009, 12:41 PM

Oh wow, I actually made it! Thanks. Good luck to everyone! I hope my board actually does well in the voting or wins!

**DieselMinded** · 04-29-2009, 04:42 PM

Thanks for the Nom !

**DieselMinded** · 05-01-2009, 02:26 PM

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-05-2009, 03:02 PM

only 15 votes, come on guys

I know there are more ppl here than that

**Cerberus** · 05-05-2009, 04:21 PM

LMAO There, I voted. I was boycotting the vote but changed my mind :P

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-05-2009, 04:34 PM

it's getting close to a 3 way tie

**fattony69** · 05-05-2009, 04:53 PM

Well, I got blown out of the water.

**veenuisthebest** · 05-06-2009, 06:34 AM

seriously, IndiaTalks does it for me. Deserves to win!

May I know why vbsetup has changed the way they used to decide winners. Polls is just not the right/fair way for this. For some, its really easy to gather votes.

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-06-2009, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

seriously, IndiaTalks does it for me. Deserves to win!

May I know why vbsetup has changed the way they used to decide winners. Polls is just not the right/fair way for this. For some, its really easy to gather votes.

because you all complained

the staff narrows it down to 5 and you pick
only those in the vb group can vote
we think its pretty fair

**veenuisthebest** · 05-06-2009, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

because you all complained

I searched, but cannot find that complaint thread.

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-06-2009, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

I searched, but cannot find that complaint thread.

It may be in the trash, but I assure you it was brought up a few times

We wouldn't of revamped the voting and added more work for ourselves if it hadn't been addressed by the members.

**Rocket 442** · 05-06-2009, 09:48 AM

We can't win. Like 20 people complained when Brandon and I chose the winner without a vote.

Also, there really isn't a way for people to gain votes easily. Everyone who votes is a vBulletin Owner so it isn't like they can have their members come in and vote for them.

**Caddyman** · 05-06-2009, 10:08 AM

Yeah i would say the system is pretty fair as it is right now. It stings to lose but that is part of entering contest....

chalk it up to experience and try again next time.

**Cerberus** · 05-06-2009, 10:56 AM

Well, I wanna know how anyone can read the pc help site to vote on it LOL...But I think its done pretty fair..

**DieselMinded** · 05-12-2009, 03:21 PM

Congrats ! PC Help Forum

**karel1985** · 05-18-2009, 02:14 AM

Thanks for the votes guys... I'm impressed.
I was two weeks out of town so it did not saw even we were nominated... lol

But great to see that a non english board like us can win this ;-)

a great appreciation for the hard work and now almost 8000 members after 3 years

Karel

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-18-2009, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karel1985

Thanks for the votes guys... I'm impressed.
I was two weeks out of town so it did not saw even we were nominated... lol

But great to see that a non english board like us can win this ;-)

a great appreciation for the hard work and now almost 8000 members after 3 years

Karel

np Karel
you have a great looking site

I'm going to close this thread, thanks all for voting