I nominate @Edie@hexbear.net for a category of "best technical work" for always being helpful with tech related questions and for its work on ComLib, which has helped me dramatically with being able to share theory with people on the other side of the great Communist Firewall and my own personal reading

I, once again, nominate myself for this prestigious award just so I can be the only two times Hexie nominated actor in Hollywood.

Nominating myself @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net for best username. I am not biased at all.

can i be nominated for worst poster anyway

I know everyone is having fun here but I personally find this whole thing tres icky. A literal popularity contest?

Maybe someone would like to explain to me how this won't lead to problems like resentment, big egos, anxiety, performance pressure, tensions, jealousies, celebrity, hurt feelings, deference etc. There are just so many pre-existing issues individually and relationally something like this could exacerbate, or even create. For all involved: who do or do not nominate/comment/vote/win.

I feel bad posting this because I guess that it will be read as maybe I don't like the people who are nominated, that I wish to be nominated etc. Anticipate any criticism, no matter the content, will initially be suspected of pettiness. Or that I am belittling the genuine affection being solicited and shared here. Don't think that's just my own idiosyncratic anxieties. The structure is created in such a way as to disincentivize ~~being the fun police~~ criticism. That makes me really uneasy too.

The idea of recognizing people who make contributions is perfectly sound. I am just not sure this is a good way. Making an institution (even as a quote/unquote "bit") of the idea that this is a place where some people are officially popular is a very weird choice for a left/communist community.

The best defense of this I can anticipate is that it'll come and go and nobody'll remember in a week. And besides it's probably a slow time for the site so fewer people than usual will even see it.

I'd like to nominate this moment where I made an offhand mention of a lib who had their own subreddit for monitoring us and hadn't been active in years, then received a reply from said lib in mere minutes, as the wildest moment of the year. Use the "view moderation history" button to see their comments since they were all removed.

Awards are a type of liberalism

I nominate myself @OgdenTO@hexbear.net for best (worst) Beanis poster, the only category so good it wasn't even mentioned in the main Hexie lineup.

I nominate @Infamousblt@hexbear.net for best BLT recipe (Beanis, Lib-smashing, chapoTraphouse)

I nominate @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net for best all around poster this year

We did this last year?

Nominating @REgon@hexbear.net for most likely to get called a tankie. They had a way to just keep annoying libs and be very thorough at arguing through all the ways in which they were wrong. They are great at doing the exact kind of thing that gets libs to call you a tankie, cornering them and showing them they're confidently incorrect.

Id like to nominate gay tucker carlson for resuming our past friendship and being nice to me in DMs about personal stuff when they saw id come back to the site after not talking for a long time, also for the best impression of tucker carlson if he was gay. didn't want to @ her bcs it felt awkward.

Ngl im slightly tipsy with friends + family rn posting from the toilet, and the main reason i didnt at them was actually bcss i couldn't work out how to withmy dumb dumb tipsy brain

dang I should have badposted more

I nominate myself for the award of most forgettable poster @Gorb@hexbear.net

Most comradely: @dustbunnies@hexbear.net