I both love and hate the Watchy Awards!
But thank you Syl keeping it going.
I hate it because my memory is so bad.
I actually make posts like "best post of the year!" but then when it's time for the Watchies I have no clue where I said something like that.
So I try to search and find out what I really enjoyed the past year and want to nominate and notice that more than an hour has gone by or that someone has changed their avatar or signature...... arrghh!!
That was the whole point of the "Spotlights," HLT.
So we could post which posts/threads we wanted to remember at nomination time.
It was an excellent innovation on the Watchies on Syl's part.
Try scrolling up to the beginning of each nomination thread. Perhaps some of those you are thinking of were Spotlighted at the time.
1. Gravin Threndor
a. Eztlicoatl - Montressor
b. Borderlands - Montressor
2. Best Thread in a General Forum
a. Win Wayfriend's Money - Wayfriend
b. blank - Kevinswatch (Jay)
c. The Rolling Interview - Deer of the Dawn
3. Best Post in a Covenant Forum
a. Was Kevin so wrong to enact the Ritual? - SGuilfoyle1966
4. Best Thread in a Covenant Forum
a. You mean to tell me they ALL died? All of them everywhere? - aTOMiC
b. A Letter to Linden Avery (aka, I just finished FR) - Foamfollower1013
c. Hile Troy as an African American? - Despiser Dave
d. Nature of the Ravers - Skurj Scourge
5. Best Avatar
a. The Benefactor (Palin and McCain) - Queeaqueg
b. Seareach's avatar (someone please link/describe in the thread) - Seareach
c. Blinking doll - Mistweave
d. screen licker - Nav
e. pulsing FR - AjK
f. Statler pimp - Plissken
g. Linden's a whore - HLT
6. Best Thread in General SRD
a. The Official Thelma & Louise thread - Seareach
b. The most horrible death - Shadowbinding Shoe
7. Funniest Watcher
a. High Lord Tolkien
b. dANdeLION
c. Sgt. Null
d. Lurch
e. Zen Lunatic
f. Ken Socrates
g. Cagliostro
8. Watcher of the Year
a. Wayfriend
b. Lurch
c. Seareach
d. Menolly
e. CovenantJr
9. Best Post in a General Forum
a. Why you should review your child's homework (adult content) - dlbpharmd
10. Best Signature
a. "i found solace in belonging nowhere..." - Lucimay
b. "A lie well told..." - Cleburne
11. Best GI Question
a. about the Theomach - Xar
b. opinion of video games as a medium - A. J. Hines
12. Moderator of the Year
a. Xar
b. Syl
c. Variol Son
d. Murrin
e. Cameraman Jenn
13. Best Thread in a Hegemony Forum
a. The Atheist Bus - Stonemaybe
b. Food Rants - High Lord Tolkien
14. Best Thread in a Library Forum
a. How would you reboot Trek? - Zahir
b. "The Whomping Willow" dissection - Zahir
15. Best Post in a General SRD Forum
a. Does SRD talk the way he writes? - High Lord Tolkien
16. Best Prose
a. The Transient - Lord Foul
17. Best Poem
a. Little Brother - Jazz Fusion
b. Wobblings sticky - Sgt. Null
c. Wolfism - rdhopeca
18. Best Title
a. Little Lebowski's Urban Achiever - Balon
19. Artist of the Year
a. Jwaneeta
b. Kevin164
20. Best Thread in a Waymeet Forum
a. Lost Season 4 - Cagliostro
b. Let's talk crossovers - Lord Mhoram
c. Best Low Budget Flicks - Chrysalis
21. Best Chapter Dissection
a. "From the Depths" - Syl
b. "Interference" - Malik23
c. "In the Care of the Mahdoubt" - danlo
d. "Difficult Answers" - Earthbrah
22. MIA
a. Edge
b. thefirst
c. Alynna lis Eachann
d. Esmer
23. Best Newbie
a. rdhopeca
b. AjK
c. Jeff
d. magickmaker17
24. Best Post in a Library Forum
a. What is your favorite romance - Farm UR-Ted
25. Comeback of the Year
a. Lurch
b. Matrixman
26. Best Debate
a. Rusmeister
27. Best Post in a Hegemony Forum
a. "There is a part of reality..." - The Dreaming
b. "The recent loss of New England Patriots quarterback..." - aTOMiC
c. afterlife - Malik23
28. Best Post in a Waymeet Forum
a. Planet of the Apes - aTOMiC
b. House MD - Cail
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"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
Voting is now open. Each member will send a ballot to me via PM, with title "2008 Ballot". Ballots will remain unopened until all are counted. Please have all Ballots in by 11:59 pm, January 31st, 2009.
The nomination threads are now open for various goings-on.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
Ok, everyone's ballot except Menolly's will be unread. Please title the PM "2008 Ballot." Exactly. Quotation marks not necessary. Otherwise, my PM reflexes take over, even if it's probably obvious what the PM is about.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
Ok, so apparently saving PMs counts them as read, so all of clan Wagner has been "read." Sorry. Montressor, I believe I have your votes.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
If everyone follows the sample ballot, I'd have to check to see who did. Too much work.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
This may sound like a silly question, but are we required to cast a vote in every category? I only ask because your system sounds like it may have some level of automation and I don't want to screw it up.
I certainly hope not, as I know I didn't vote in every category.
However, I did list "abstain" for those categories I didn't vote in.
I'm not sure how my guys handled their ballots, but I know they voted in far fewer categories than I did.
Ah, "abstain". The story of my teenage dating career!
Thanks, Menolly! While I will be voting on the categories in which I am entered (although certainly voting for someone more deserving than myself ) I wanted to be able to abstain from voting on categories on which I really didn't have a strong enough opinion. Thanks again!
