The 2011 Music Banter User Awards [Category Discussion]
 

Iiiiiiiiiiiit's that time of year again, to hash out the categories for this year's user awards. It's going to be really simple.

• If you'd like to suggest a new category, or eliminate an old one, post your suggestion here.
• Your suggestion needs to be approved three times by other members to make it as a final category.
• This thread will close on December 9, and then we'll start nominating.

Here's the old list of categories, shamelessly pasted from last year's thread.



Most Underrated Poster - The site's biggest underdog - someone who's positive impact on the forums is generally underappreciated or often goes unnoticed.
Smartest poster - The forums smartest member.
Most Missed Poster - The member who's presence on the boards you missed the most in 2011 due to their long periods of absence or inactivity.
Best Journal - The best Members Journal.
Biggest Drama Whore - The member who most often surrounds him or herself with drama.
Sexiest Member (male) - The male member with the most sex appeal.
Sexiest Member (female) - The female member with the most sex appeal.
Best debater - The member who's best at discussing and communicating intelligently and effectively.
Worst debater - The complete opposite. The member who's presence in a discussion is usually the most disruptive
Best Writer - The best writer on the site, whether they are writing a review, a summary of their day, a rant and everything inbetween.
Biggest music nerd - The member who's most knowledgeable about music.
Funniest member - The member with the best sense of humour and who often makes you laugh.
Angriest member - The bitterest member, a cynic who often responds with hostility and bitterness towards new and old members
Nicest member - The kindest member, always makes an effort to treat people well, with respect, and to be nice.
Biggest Troll - The member who's presence anywhere in the forums is most disruptive
Biggest contributor - The member who's posts and threads have contributed the most to the overall quality of the site in 2011.
Most Improved Member - The member who's somehow improved the most in his or her behaviour on the site in the past 12 months.
Most virtuosic - The member with the highest level of skill with an instrumental ability.
Best avatar - The best member avatar of 2011.
Moderator of the Year - The member of the mod team who has helped to moderate the site the most in 2011 and who's work and efforts are the most appreciated.
Best new 2011 member - The best new addition to the site in 2011.
Member of the Year 2011 - The overall best member of 2011. The member who we love, appreciate and respect the most.
Most Mainstream Music Taste - The member with the most commercial, mainstream taste in music.
Most Obscure Music Taste - The member with the most varied or obscure taste in music.
Best Thread Starter - The member with a consistent habit of making throught provoking threads that manage to bring the community together in healthy, lengthy topic of debate or discussion.
Best Mediator -The member who is best at controlling arguments, limiting negative behaviour but keeping the discussion fair, on-topic and interesting.

CATEGORIES TO BE VOTED ON (Out of 3 Votes):

Most Enigmatic Member: The member you find most intriguing, and want to know more about. (3/3)
Thread of the Year: Self explanatory. (3/3)
Best Music Taste: The member whose taste you like the most. (3/3)
User You Wish Poster More Often: A member who is still here, but just doesn't post enough. (2/3)
Most Eclectic Music Taste: (1/3)
Most Swag: The coolest member. (1/3)
Journal Entry of the Year. (1/3)
The Shut The Fuck Up Award: For those members who spend thousands of posts insisting on telling us every single iota of their boring lives. (3/3)

"Argumentalist" really bugs me. It isn't a word, it should be "arguer".

The years should be 2011, not 2010.

Anyway, cool, I was just thinking about this the other day!

I said I shamelessly pasted it, c'mon now.

I'd like to nominate Most Enigmatic Member. Someone we find very interesting, and want to know more about.

Interesting. I haven't seen a forum do this before. All I know is that The Virgin has the biggest troll locked up.

"Argumentalist" tentatively changed to "debater".

Also would like to nominate Thread of the Year.

That's a good one, I support it.

Pfft, don't put responsibility on me. If I wanted to cheat, I'd just do it. :laughing:

Also: Should booby-prizes be doled out to participants in the awards?

Stu's got his heart set on "Best Member With a Three Letter Username".

I like bob and stu, but I think ___ would get my vote

Everyone probably just wants to get to the fun stuff, so I could knock the category round in half if you like.

Also, thought this was already a category but I guess I was wrong.

Favourite music taste. For the poster whose taste you like the most.

You're ruining it.

That's two votes for this category (or something). Need two more. Should I make a running tally or what?

I'll do a Tine Fey and just start writing my acceptance speeches ahead of time.

Running tally on the first page, for ease of reference.

Firstly, best taste in music is a worthwhile category

Secondly, again, Bob. has a fucking FULL STOP in his name.

Which is not a letter. :p:

We agreed on characters, not letters, Ped's error ;)

It's rigged in Stu's favour. The voting is just a formality.

I should start being an active member of this community, of course this would foil my....plans.

Most enigmatic member is a kool idealia.

Then you're also up against s_k

/completely inconsequential statement

Yes, I think we know who wins that ;)

I don't really have anything to add to the list, but...

It would be nice if this year it was focused more on the nominations and people explained their reasons for choosing the people they do, and actually make the thread interesting to read. Rather than just a list a bunch of names that are counted up to become a boring bunch of statistics like last years and the year previous.

I agree with this, and will specify in the nominations thread that people say a little something.

This should be about celebrating our userbase. I didn't get the feeling of that last year.

How about User You Wish Posted More Often. For those people who haven't left, but just don't post enough in your eyes.

Isn't that pretty similar to the most enigmatic member? I'll support it though. Same with music taste and best thread.

No, I wouldn't say so. Someone who's mysterious isn't necessarily someone who you wish posted a lot.

Regarding best new member must that person have joined in 2011? Because if a member joined in December last year they wouldn't have been in with a chance of being nominated during last years awards.

Also Thread Of The Year sounds pretty good to me.

Saddest Member

Something I could totally get.

Nominating Alex for "Member most depressing by mere proximity".

:rofl:

i love you guys :)

member in most dire need of some pussy

...and we have our first self-nomination for MB Dickhead of the Year.

Too bad this isn't nominations round

How bout Most Eclectic Music Taste?

I like that one. Thought it was already there actually.

How about Swag?

I don't understand.