BoardGameGeek is an online board gaming resource and community. There are reviews, ratings, images, play-aids, translations, and session reports from board game geeks across the world, as well as live discussion forums. In addition, every day nearly a hundred game trades pass through the hands of registered members, as well as transactions in the marketplace. The site is updated on a real-time basis by its large user base. BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko as a resource for the board gaming hobby.

Rate Your Music (or RYM) is an online collaborative metadata database of musical and non-musical releases and films which can be cataloged, rated and reviewed by users. In RYM users rate and catalog releases, as well as write reviews, create lists and add artists and releases to the database.