Official War Room Awards 2017

[cincymma79]

well, bro, I totally misjudged you. My sincere apologies. I'll edit my post.

I am always misunderstood on the topic

 

[Devout Pessimist]

Official Nominations

• Rebranded Poster- @Devout Pessimist - Some of his posts this year make me feel he's been more introspective about his own views rather than some who are completely set on questioning the views of others.

 

[JosephDredd]

I am always misunderstood on the topic

It's probably because you say the exact same things that Trumpbots say. And if you say the exact same things... you're doing the same work as a Trumpbot... you're indistinguishable from a Trumpbot... you're a Trumpbot

 

[Bald1]

Lot of competition there for worst TS.
@STEVEN SEAGOLD
@El anciano
@Panmisiek
@Byron Carter
@guard_passer / @Pied Piper / @Drew Peasack

Probably have to give it to Byron though, because he isn't banned and might not be a troll.

I also nominate "Best Use Of Media" as an invalid category and suggest removing image posting from the WR.

Best TS has to be @Arkain2K . He puts the effort in.

Least Biased: Not in the War Room. Although I'd say @JDragon manages to pull off centrism in a fairly unbiased fashion.

Best quote... probably @ehtheist on the longevity of the WR's Online Role Players:
"Maybe after being a forum persona since the late 90’s, I’m finally getting tired of this game… Maybe."

Best Thread: Any thread that wasn't about identity politics. That's right... both of them.

Best Shill/Hack: I think @TheComebackKid has really turned it up this year. Which is saying something...

Worst Poster: Quite the competition here as well, although I'd go with @GORETAURO / @ReAnimator Reagan for his overall posting and the most likely candidate for sending seizure inducing PMs.

...and last, but obviously not least (just hardest), Best Poster:

Spoiler

Going to have to go with a draw between @Gandhi, @Kafir-kun , @Jack V Savage and @InternetHero. Not for being the most prolific or even most informative poster, but for being the posters I'm most likely to read in posts that aren't reported, tagging me or replies to my posts.

Good post, but I strongly disagree with removing image posting from the WR. Yeah, I know sometimes we get overwhelmed with tweets during "breaking now" events, but uploads from those on location really helps with driving the immediacy home.

 

[JosephDredd]

• Rebranded Poster- @Devout Pessimist - Some of his posts this year make me feel he's been more introspective about his own views rather than some who are completely set on questioning the views of others.

I feel like he utterly failed to be introspective. I say this because he said he was going to distance himself from White Supremacists, but what this resulted in is he now shares videos of those same white supremacists and, if you ask him why, he says he doesn't agree with their racist stuff, but their other ideas are good.

 

[Phr3121]

New category. Best female newcomer: @abiG
Carries a good argument with good sources to back her points.
@Limbo Pete
@Lead

 

[Lord Commander Palis]

zzzzzzzzz

 

[second sight]

Biggest brown noser that guy in the other thread that said madmick deserved an award, hell with that train of thought let’s give computer fogie a life time achievement award. Why stop there Kim Jong-un for mod.

Not taking anything away from lead or limbo, a good mod is like a good ref or umpire, you should never notice them, both those guys fit the bill as does rup

 

[snakedafunky]

Worst All Around Poster: @Bald1 seems like a nice guy. But spreads his Bolshevik propaganda in every post. Some people might not have the Communist spotting eye my Grandfather passed down to me. He can be very sneaky about it something his Soviet education indoctrinate into him at a young age like a STASI officer. But as an example, his favorite movie is about a Soviet agent killing innocent Americans. The only criticism he had was that he didnt kill enough women and children and the capitalists' pigs he did kill didn't suffer enough.

 

[Bald1]

Worst All Around Poster: @Bald1 seems like a nice guy. But spreads his Bolshevik propaganda in every post. Some people might not have the Communist spotting eye my Grandfather passed down to me. He can be very sneaky about it something his Soviet education indoctrinate into him at a young age like a STASI officer. But as an example, his favorite movie is about a Soviet agent killing innocent Americans. The only criticism he had was that he didnt kill enough women and children and the capitalists' pigs he did kill didn't suffer enough.

This is the equivilent of saying I'm a secret Muslim. It seems our leading phrenologist is tilting at windmills in search of hidden commies while ignoring posters with obviously red names. Clearly a case of too little too late virtue signalling. Must be a Merkel plant.

 

[snakedafunky]

This is the equivilent of saying I'm a secret Muslim. It seems our leading phrenologist is tilting at windmills in search of hidden commies while ignoring posters with obviously red names. Clearly a case of too little too late virtue signalling. Must be a Merkel plant.

That is exactly what a Bolshevik would say, the thing about the true Bolsheviks. They are to smart to name themselves after communist figures or slogans.
But a poster with an AV from a professional wrestler claiming to be from Canada trying to put the focus on Muslims is an ideal cover.
Going on about how bad Muslims and immigrants are. All of a sudden boom a 5000-word post about how important it is that the worker get control over the means of production.

But not on my watch. No political commissar gets away.

 

[rokzilla]

Some posts I've been saving up.



This smackdown of Ehthiest by @Falsedawn after that vapid transpostwhore accused him of misogyny is pretty tight:

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/w...th-but-respect.3536099/page-15#post-130305589
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This OP after the baseball game shootout was fucking priceless, crass as shit and just directly on the nose:

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/breaking-low-energy-repubs-routed-11-2-maga.3550807/
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Pun of the Year is this one by @Quipling (needs to be read in context):

http://forums.sherdog.com/posts/132939225/
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@luckyshot 's post on the best looking president of all time really kicked the old funnybone. I don't know why. Rutherford B. Hayes fucked your bitch, btw.

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/k...iate-with-trump.3594805/page-2#post-132854643
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@rokzilla made a dent in his own skull with this gem, but he didn't notice (apparently winning by a few million votes doesn't qualify as "most"):

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/potus-attacks-congress-on-twitter.3590449/page-3#post-132639545

and @rokzilla gets double featured for claiming that Kim Jong Un became a folk hero to liberal America this year:

http://forums.sherdog.com/posts/134126719/
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@TheComebackKid makes the list, of course, for saying probably the dumbest thing a literate person has ever said about oppression:

http://forums.sherdog.com/posts/134161277/
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kln0mega makes the list posthumously, for this most perfect head-in-the-sand comment about POTUS:

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/trump-wants-to-testify.3637733/#post-134782529
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But perhaps my favorite shitshow post of the year is this late entry, by @Giblert, where he implies that different pictures showing absolutely identical and specific vehicle damage, are in fact pictures of two different cars:

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/j...t-degree-murder.3676261/page-5#post-136725659
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Wow do I need to explain this to you all over again?

 

[Fawlty]

Official Nom-noms @Limbo Pete


This year saw the fall of the WR's alt-reich, eating themselves in miserable, glorious fashion, as rationality returned to the WR, if only a little. It was a fine year.


Best All Around Poster: A lot of really good posters this year. For his blend of humor and intelligence, and for the number of informative posts and good arguments, I give it to @Quipling. @Jack V Savage (you can't win my vote every year or people will start talking), @ShoelessRye, @JosephDredd and @panamaican all had damn solid years and might just as well be my pick. But there are probably a couple dozen who should get a shoutout.

Worst Poster: This one doesn't even seem close. @Palis was garbage start to finish. At least most of the deplorables put some effort into their bullshit, so they get at least the minimum respect. Plenty of people trolled, lied, barfed up stupidity on demand and generally stunk the joint up, but nobody was more worthless than Palis.

Best Thread: The Russia Megathread. Taking the easy way out on this one.

Worst TS: Agreed it has to be Reanimator Reagan. Just woof, oof, and ugh. A little blech too.

Best Liberal Shill/Best Conservative Hack: @Pickle Rick for the left. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your posts and you bring the lulz, but yeah. @HereticBD, you're winning the right side for two reasons. One, you're a notable poster, and fuck the horde who don't matter. You're borderline good, and show you're capable of dropping the elephant dick out of your mouth now and then. But hoo lawd, you picked up some hack slack after Kone got put down for his dirt nap. This is, all things considered, quite a goddamn feat for a Canadian.

Least Biased: Being politically centrist only has a little bit to do with being unbiased, and blaming both sides is a terribly stupid bias of its own. For this category it's somebody like @Gandhi or @InternetHero. Both are moderate in practice, but one is perfectly at ease being a motherfucker of a capitalist and the other seems like he's simultaneously begging for and in deep fear of dictatorial world government, somehow. What makes them top unbiased posters is that they are objective- they have a healthy relationship with the truth such that their bias doesn't prevent them from seeing a solution or accepting an argument. But @Gandhi wins out here because @InternetHero is the Comeback of the Year winner, which by some Machiavellian oversight (wait is that even a thing?) is not a category.

Best Use of Media: Either @ShoelessRye or @Diamond Jim. Informative, relevant, no spamming, appreciated bigly!



categories not listed:

Comeback of the Year- IH
Thread Title of the Year- Forcing child to masturbate for cops in sexting case was wrong, court finds by JosephDredd
Pun of the Year- Quipling for "autocoprophilia" describing a poster who seemed to be eating his own shit rather hard in a thread about the VA murder-by-car incident
Most Improved- @PolishHeadlock easily. He was a more frequent contributor and was all-around pretty awesome, imho
Best Takedown- @Falsedawn on ehthiest, linked in my post on the first page
Best AV- Shoeless Rye for Trump grabbing Lady Liberty by the pussy

 

[Fawlty]

Wow do I need to explain this to you all over again?

Nope, you can just reap it. Cheers!

 

[Arkain2K]

You know what I finds the most amusing about these annual WR Award Nomination threads? Eventually somebody will spend 20 pages defending themselves against other people's nominations for them, as if that would changes anything at this point in time!

For those folks, I'll just give this friendly reminder: You already had an entire year to prove your worth, over hundreds or perhaps even thousands of posts. It doesn't matter what you think of yourself in this nomination thread. All that matters now is what other members think about your contribution to our playground this past year!

That's also the reason why all the self-nominations in here are, and forever will be, nothing more than pathetic.

Whether you are an exceptionally great contributor or an extraordinary shit poster, your record will speak for itself, for better or for worse.

If a well-known shit poster unfairly put you down - Relax! It's not going to negatively change anyone's mind about your contribution! In fact, you should wear that ironic insult with pride! Why? Because you have never contemplated this gloomy scenario: it's a hell lot more dreadful if the bottom-of-the-barrel variety considered you a good poster, thinking you shares the same values and standards as them.

On the other hand, if multiple well-respected members of the forum think you...how should I put this...still have plenty potential for improvement, why be defensive so pointlessly this late in the game now, when you could strive to be better next year instead?

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Nominating yourself for worst poster of the year eh?

Well he's got a real shot at it

 

[JosephDredd]

OK, so I'm going to do my nominations/voting in segments because I have to think about this stuff:

WORST ALL-AROUND POSTER

It's got to be @TheComebackKid, though @Palis is a close runner-up. TCK takes it, though, because any personal problems he's having have to be inferred. Palis just lets it out there for all the world to see in posts that have become more and more deranged. Meaning TCK has a greater impact on people with his shitposting because he's harder to ignore. He tries hard to effect that veneer of competence and sanity.

BEST CONSERVATIVE HACK:

@Farmer Br0wn wins, hands down!

Firstly, because of the time he claimed that a shaker full of awful, awful table salt was more toxic to the human body than a cup of wholesome Monsanto Round-Up Weedkiller! Mmm, boy!

One cup of Roundup herbicide is actually far less toxic than a full shaker of salt.

The only reason we don't consciously consider that amount of salt as toxic, is because the human tongue is designed to find salt, sugar, and fat.

He repeated it several times and each time, because it's such a strangely-conceived claim, I can only imagine it came from a Monsanto sales pitch. (For the record, salt is an essential compound for the human body and Round-Up is a highly toxic, cancer-causing chemical, which was proven with links provided to him before before he disappeared.)

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/m...ops-in-adjacent-farms.3632927/#post-134566343

Secondly, because of the time he was arguing the NRA talking point that SSRIs / depression meds are responsible for mass shootings (a connection that has failed to be found in study after study) and provided indisputable proof:

So these medications don't come with the explicitly stated side effect of "suicidal thoughts"?

Just saying something's been debunked without providing any evidence is just intellectual laziness on your part.

You keep saying that there's studies with this preponderance of evidence, yet you never cite them.

I've provided full evidence for my argument. You have yet to do so.

That's right: he was saying that suicidal thoughts and mass shootings were the same thing and that the warning label on the side of anti-depressants for suicidal thoughts was indisputable culpability that the pharmaceutical industry caused mass shootings, trumping multiple studies.

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/h...ety-must-accept.3676091/page-8#post-136712497

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/h...ety-must-accept.3676091/page-8#post-136712497


But he had some stiff competition:

@Hans Gruber for going into a thread about horrific animal cruelty on corporate farms and tugging everyone's heart strings by reminding them of a deceased, beloved CEO who created jobs for people (and whose business also committed animal cruelty):

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/u...le-still-alive-brexit.3584943/#post-132384517
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/u...le-still-alive-brexit.3584943/#post-132385113

Also @Necromantic for this brainless post that was breathtaking in it's mendacious craziness:

Well, it is a difference than Islam commands killing non muslims. Liberals believe everyone who does not agree with them is a nazi and should be punched.
The alt-rght are leftists like all nazis and have nothing to do with the republican party and never have.

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/n...-trump-websites.3676577/page-3#post-136741115

And a guy I can't track down though the search feature who was literally repeating wishful talking points from 4chan and The Donald that Mueller was secretly working with Trump and was going to unseal the remaining indictments any day now, revealing the crimes (and then arresting) a truckload of Democrats, from Podesta to Hillary Clinton.

 

[Trotsky]

well, bro, I totally misjudged you. My sincere apologies. I'll edit my post.

No, you were on point. The fact that he, at least purportedly, does not unanimously align right kind of feeds into the "shill" aspect of constantly taking the devil's advocate position on supposed principle (which it's really partisanship).

 

[Bald1]

That is exactly what a Bolshevik would say, the thing about the true Bolsheviks. They are to smart to name themselves after communist figures or slogans.
But a poster with an AV from a professional wrestler claiming to be from Canada trying to put the focus on Muslims is an ideal cover.
Going on about how bad Muslims and immigrants are. All of a sudden boom a 5000-word post about how important it is that the worker get control over the means of production.

But not on my watch. No political commissar gets away.

Raise the National socialist deflection shield! Load Schwerer Gustav with propaganda leaflets. Take aim at the Kanafisch, and prey to Hugo Boss their manifesto is shorter than ours. For ze Fatherland!!


That's what I read. Seems like a preemptive strike at a neutral party. Infact, I thought we had signed a non-aggression pact. What's the German word for "feels familiar yet smells fishy"?

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Worst TS- @ReanimatorReagan

The funny thing it seems he has little or no clue as to what Reagan's policies actually were , I think he just chose the name for righ wing street cred