2013 Watchies Nomination Category Suggestions
- TheFallen
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I'll second either (or both) of Vraith's Most Inspirational Watcher ideas, although they'll need to be better-phrased to be clear.
(I'm seconding these, because they near-on match with my Most Thought-Provoking Watcher proposal).
(I'm seconding these, because they near-on match with my Most Thought-Provoking Watcher proposal).
Newsflash: the word "irony" doesn't mean "a bit like iron"
Shockingly, some people have claimed that I'm egocentric... but hey, enough about them
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Shockingly, some people have claimed that I'm egocentric... but hey, enough about them
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- Menolly
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uh...Savor Dam wrote:Short answer: Our gracious moderator seems to be approaching Watchies as a start-from-zero proposition this year, now that her Watchy co-mod has stepped away from the Watch. This is not a rejection of any of the excellent historic categories for Watchies...she just wants to have them (as well as any new ones) grass-roots suggested and seconded. Makes sense in a way, as it keeps the list to those categories where people presumably have candidates in mind and prevents having categories where nobody gets nominated.Vraith wrote:how can that have not already been a category???ussusimiel wrote:Best Newbie: seconded
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Wouldn't this be the same as "Newbie of the Year," which was listed as an automatic Watchy category? If not, explain the difference for voting purposes, please.
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Official Categories for 2013 Watchies:
Best SRD-Related Post
Best SRD-Related Thread
Best Dissection
Moderator of the Year
Newbie of the Year
Watcher of the Year
Best Art
Best Prose
Best Poetry
Best Avatar
Best non-SRD Related Post
Best non-SRD Related Thread
Best Debate
Most Entertaining Thread
Most Unusual Thread
Least Likely to Receive a Watchy Award
Best Written form Parody
Best Graphic Parody
Best Alt
Gadfly of the year
Best Signature
Best Title
Funniest Watcher
Watcher with Best Puns
Watcher with Best Attitude to Different Points of View
MIA Watcher
Most Inspirational Watcher
Most Thought-provoking Watcher
Most Thought-provoking Thread
Please review and let me know if I missed any seconded categories, or if any are too close in description to another.
Best SRD-Related Post
Best SRD-Related Thread
Best Dissection
Moderator of the Year
Newbie of the Year
Watcher of the Year
Best Art
Best Prose
Best Poetry
Best Avatar
Best non-SRD Related Post
Best non-SRD Related Thread
Best Debate
Most Entertaining Thread
Most Unusual Thread
Least Likely to Receive a Watchy Award
Best Written form Parody
Best Graphic Parody
Best Alt
Gadfly of the year
Best Signature
Best Title
Funniest Watcher
Watcher with Best Puns
Watcher with Best Attitude to Different Points of View
MIA Watcher
Most Inspirational Watcher
Most Thought-provoking Watcher
Most Thought-provoking Thread
Please review and let me know if I missed any seconded categories, or if any are too close in description to another.
- Rau Le Creuset
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- Cagliostro
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- ussusimiel
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I don't want to tread on anyone's toes, but a couple of these look to me like they could be trimmed.Menolly wrote:Official Categories for 2013 Watchies:
Funniest Watcher
Watcher with Best Puns
Watcher with Best Attitude to Different Points of View
Most Inspirational Watcher
Most Thought-provoking Watcher
Most Thought-provoking Thread
Please review and let me know if I missed any seconded categories, or if any are too close in description to another.
I say let the Punsters duke it out with the Funsters! Let the Inspirationalists smack it down with the Open Mindists, and let the thought provoking threads lead us to the Thought-Provoker!
There are 29 categories and I know from experience that trying to get nominations/votes in so many is hard work
u.
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
- Vraith
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Your ideas are stupid. The only category that needs to be eliminated is theussusimiel wrote:
There are 29 categories and I know from experience that trying to get nominations/votes in so many is hard work
u.
"best attitude to different views" category. Some things are obvious and don't deserve awards, it's just how things are. I win that category beyond question, so humbly demand its elimination. I always have the best attitude toward different views. When they're good views, I say so, and that's the perfect attitude...when they're dumb views, I say so, and that's the perfect attitude.
One doesn't congratulate or reward water for being wet, I am what [and THAT[ I am, and therefore that award should be eliminated, and every other ussisssUSELESSimmieellll thought ignored.
I suggest the category: Best fruits of the vine.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
- ussusimiel
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Thank you! *bows* (Even if you have to borrow someone else's words, every once in an indigo moon you actually manage to get something right. )Vraith wrote:Oscar Wilde wrote:'all art is quite ussusimiel'
This may be his ploy, Menolly! Vraith knows that he has no chance of winning any sort of Watchy this year, so he wants to try and get one on the back of my exceptionally worthy efforts!Menolly wrote:...me thinks we need to consider bringing back:
Best Duo (Straightman/Foil)
u.
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.