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!
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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 Lay Liberty by the pussy
