Salami

Here are my final nominations. I'm going to refuse any more temptations to nominate anyone else.

Best Avatar: I'll have to go with Jackhammer. I love that "Pink Freud" so much. Vanilla and duga are also very good.

Sexiest Member (Male): Odyshape. He's really cute. Look at him with his watch in the picture gallery. And duga.

Sexiest Member (Female): Easily Vanilla. I love her already. I think Aurora comes pretty close. [And duga too! Kidding.]

Most Inane: Killcreek. I don't know why Killcreek ever came here.

Most Enigmatic: Tore. I love it when he turns up. Duga is so infrequently encountered, but when he turns up, I want to listen.

Angriest Member: TheBig3, because Urban says so.

Biggest Drama Whore: Paloma. She's a real babe. Great lass. I'm not giving her this in a negative way, I just think she really deserves an award.

Nicest Member: s_k. Really friendly guy. Burning Down a close second. Necromancer deserves special recognition too.

Best Debater: duga. Only seen a few posts by him, but every single one was brilliant. And it's about time someone gave him some love! Il Duce is the "master debater", but that's different.

Worst Debater: Erasertime.306. Worked very hard for this award and he damn well deserves it. He even changed the thread name to C.C. Deville. Worthy winner.

Best Writer: RMR. Fantastic series of reviews.

Biggest Virtuoso: Freebase Dali. No competition.

Smartest Poster: Jackhammer. Tore is also very intelligent. Duga writes more in a single post that I've ever said on this forum, so I'm nominating him too.

Funniest Member: Urban. Every single one of his posts make me laugh out loud. Also Unchained Ballad. @#!*ing hilarious at times.

Best Mediator: Janzoon. Coolest man on the forum. Nothing can annoy him.

Biggest Troll: SIRIUSB, Hip Hop Bunny Hop and Bane of your Existence.
Also very worthy of note is Baggs, the "progwanker" as Pedestrian amusingly put it.

Biggest Contributor: Pedestrian. So much effort put into here, I don't know how she does it.

Most Improved Member: I haven't been around long enough to know!

Most Underrated Poster: Necromancer. Really knowledgeble yet no one mentions him. Same with duga

Most Mainstream Music Taste: djchamelean.

Most Obscure Music Taste: Batlord. Knows more about metal than I ever knew about my girlfriend.

Best Music Taste: Trollheart. And by "best", I probably mean similar to mine! Burning Down as well.

Biggest Music Nerd: Jackhammer. In a good way.

Best Thread Starter: Jackhammer again! His really do stand the test of time.

Most Missed Poster: Boo Boo. I feel very sorry for poor old boobs. I think there must have been some deep personal loss in his life for his unfortunate deterioration. I sympathise with him, but think that he should really have thought before saying some of what he did.

Thread of the Year: "The Evolution of Music: Accident, or Adaptation? " It's a new one, but has a potential for endless productive discussion./

Journal of the Year: Crosswalking - Pedestrian. It's an incredible read, very informative, very well written with excellent turn of phrase and very personal.
A close second would be Thoughts from a music major - by Burning Down. Talks about exactly the kind of music I love in a very honest and friendly kind of way.

Moderator of the Year: Sorry to sound like a creep, but there are several that deserve a mention:

Overall best mod must be Pedestrian. The amount of effort she puts into this forum is amazing. duga is the coolest, and one whom
I'm liking increasingly. Burning Down is the nicest. I can't nominate any more, sorry!

Best New Member 2011: Il Duce and Tom Clancy11.

Member of the Year 2011: duga.

TheBig3

Best Avatar: Urban's Mark E. Smith/Ice Cream Cone
Sexiest Member (Male): Barnard, Adidasss, Ska Lagos
Sexiest Member (Female): Aurora, Paloma, Alexthe4th
Most Inane: Il Duce, Erasertime, Satchmo
Most Enigmatic: Il Duce I guess since I was pretty sure it was a transvestite and I'm told it isn't a transvestite.
Angriest Member: Vanilla, Danovan Cowboy (sp?)
Biggest Drama Whore: Does this mean they **** drama? If so, Tumor
Nicest Member: Unfortunately, its still Vegan
Best Debater:
Worst Debater:
Best Writer: I like what Engine puts out, and Urban has some crazy one-lines
Biggest Virtuoso: How the **** am I supposed to know this? Fine, Mighty Salami, Above, Thom Yorke
Smartest Poster: Batlord
Funniest Member: Urban, Janszoon, Satchmo
Best Mediator: Phantom Limb
Biggest Troll: We don't have any good trolls here, its sad
Biggest Contributor: Tore
Most Improved Member: Mr. Dave for returning
Most Underrated Poster: I like MrD00d a lot
Most Mainstream Music Taste: Ska Lagos Jew Sun Rza
Most Obscure Music Taste: Listnholic (I've spelled this wrong, **** off)
Best Music Taste: Well me, obviously, we should reword this question.
Biggest Music Nerd: Matt Pinfield
Best Thread Starter: I think we all can start threads fairly well.
Most Missed Poster: right-Track
Thread of the Year: I loved that "Is this food?" thread
Journal of the Year: Trollheart
Moderator of the Year: No
Best New Member 2011: I like Salami
Member of the Year 2011: Necromancer

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Burning Down

I'm trying to figure that out myself, Tore . I really don't know how I've managed to stay mysterious on these boards. Obviously I don't talk about myself nearly as much as everyone else on here does. What do you want to know?

And thanks for any other nominations, people!

Here's mine:

Best Avatar: Janszoon's Pac Man Christmas tree.
Sexiest Member (Male): Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra. Or RVCA. Can't decide.
Sexiest Member (Female): Paloma
Most Inane:
Most Enigmatic: duga. Don't know a whole lot about him.
Angriest Member: lucifer_sam.
Biggest Drama Whore: Dirty
Nicest Member: Vegangelica
Best Debater: Tore, he's just so smart and knows how to get a point across in the simplest of ways. I'd also like to mention hip hop bunny hop. Not many people agree with the things he says, but he gets his points across and supports them well.
Worst Debater: eraser.time206
Best Writer: Pedestrian. You have great diction!
Biggest Virtuoso: Besides me (lol)? No idea.
Smartest Poster: Tore.
Funniest Member: Urban. You have the best responses to everything.
Best Mediator: No idea.
Biggest Troll: Dirty hands down. Even more than the Virgin.
Biggest Contributor: starrynight. Stays under the radar but makes really quality posts in the music forums.
Most Improved Member: Il Duce. I didn't really have high hopes for you when you joined.
Most Underrated Poster: Lisnaholic. Doesn't post a lot but he really knows his stuff about music. More people should read what he has to say!
Most Mainstream Music Taste: djchameleon.
Most Obscure Music Taste: bob.
Best Music Taste: Janszoon. That guy listens to everything!
Biggest Music Nerd: Lisnaholic.
Best Thread Starter: No idea.
Most Missed Poster: Rickenbacker and James
Thread of the Year: the COME HERE FOR A GODDAMNED SANTA HAT thread. Really. Everyone's avatars look superb with these Santa hats and it's all due to this thread.
Journal of the Year: Trollheart's journal.
Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian. We all work hard though.
Best New Member 2011: Mighty Salami. You're growing on me
Member of the Year 2011: No idea.

I may come back to edit this.

Engine

Best Avatar: Surell. His dinosaur-headed Jesus is a work of divine beauty and I hope it never changes.

Sexiest Member (Male): I’m not normally into blondes but this one goes to TheFolkslave.

Sexiest Member (Female): Without a doubt, MB’s favorite lustful southern belle, 6Underground.

Most Inane: Mighty Salami. Sorry kid but I can’t seem to open a thread these days without bumping into one of your strange unsubstantial posts. The real award goes to s_k, though. It’s been explained why a bunch of times here already. You earned it man.

Most Enigmatic: skaltezon. I don’t understand your period usage and I can’t tell who you are at all but you know your baroque music and I dig the few other posts I’ve seen you make.

Angriest Member: lucifer_sam. A lot of the anger seems a bit manufactured but it’s always pretty … angry. I recently read that he gave up his dope-smoking so maybe that’s why some of his latest outbursts have been so loud.

Biggest Drama Whore: They’re all the same size. You’re either a drama whore or you’re not.

Nicest Member: Maybe she hasn’t been very nice to a lot of you assholes but 2011 has been the worst year of my life and Tumor was consistently there for me whenever I asked her to be and she always tried to help me out no matter how ridiculously self-pitying and drunk I got. This one goes to her.

Best Debater: Tore wins the argument literally every time. Even if I enjoyed debating on the Internet, I’d never take him on.

Worst Debater: A dime a dozen around here.

Best Writer: There are many. Janszoon gets a nod for the evocative writing in his 25 Albums journal. Pedestrian epitomizes good diction and grammar. Stu expresses his opinions and other contributions as well as or better than everybody else.

Biggest Virtuoso: Last year Freebase Dali won this I think (?) because of some of his music he posted on which he sang in a way that made me cringe. This year he posted some “music he totally made” sans vocals and I really like it. It’s strange to base this on one song but there ya go, I nominate him. Janszoon once (not this year) posted a link to an entire electronic album that he made and I really like it. I hope he makes/posts more. Also, I haven’t checked out a lot of what others have done so this isn’t a putdown of anybody else’s music.

Smartest Poster: Janszoon, Urban Hatemonger, and Freebase Dali. Don’t fuck with any of these guys if you value your credential.

Funniest Member: Same three as above plus Tumor.

Best Mediator: Even though it often comes across as a scared child begging mommy and daddy to stop fighting, Jack Pat often puts in an effort to cool things down.

Biggest Troll: Same as the drama whores – all the same size to me.

Biggest Contributor: This year it was Pedestrian. She’s the new Tore.

Most Improved Member: I don’t remember why exactly but when Jack Pat first joined he seemed to me like a kid who was probably picked on or ignored in school and dealt with it by cracking open a case of Mountain Dew and venting on an Internet forum. A year later and he seems more sophisticated and truly in love with music than a lot of posters. So he gets this.

Most Underrated Poster: Shoutout to Sparky who makes this place more fun than it would be without him. Oh, almost forgot, loose_lips_sink_ships routinely goes unnoticed.

Most Mainstream Music Taste: dunno

Most Obscure Music Taste: This feels unfair to the many people with vast musical knowledge here but the usual suspects I guess: bob. and Stu.

Best Music Taste: This one’s really too difficult because so many posters here have such good taste. What really interests me is when I feel a connection to a poster’s taste even when I really don’t like the same music they like. For instance, I don’t love a lot of post-rock but I know TheFolkslave has got that genre locked down. Same with CanwllCorfe and his black metal, and Hip Hop Bunny Hop's thrash, grind, and death metal. Whenever I open youtube links they post I enjoy it even if I know I’ll never listen to it again because it’s not really my thing.

Biggest Music Nerd: We’re all so nerdy it’s ridiculous to try to choose.

Best Thread Starter: I guess I rarely notice who starts threads. I know Sparky and Stu start threads on musicians that other people wouldn’t so … them?

Most Missed Poster: dankrsta, dankrsta, dankrsta. Please come back.

Thread of the Year: I’ve probably ignored the majority of them so I don’t feel qualified to say.

Journal of the Year: Janszoon’s 25 Albums, Pedestrian’s Crosswalking, and _____’s 1960 met 1963 is also a fun read. Honorable mentions to CanwllCorfe, Trollheart, Stu, Zer0, and bob.

Moderator of the Year: I can’t nominate people for things that I don’t even know that they’ve done.

Best New Member 2011: I really can’t say yet.

Member of the Year 2011: Janszoon is who keeps me coming back.

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FaSho

I haven't been here in like three months, and probably won't be around long, but felt like filling some out anyway, also what happened to the rest of the negative awards? You guys have gone soft.


Most Inane: s_k
Most Enigmatic: ThePhanastasio
Angriest Member: GuitarBizarre
Biggest Drama Whore: GuitarBizarre
Best Debater: Big3
Smartest Poster: Big3
Best Mediator: Pedestrian
Biggest Troll: Tumor
Biggest Contributor: Tore
Most Underrated Poster: Trauma
Best Music Taste: Stu
Biggest Nerd: Dayvan Cowboy
Best Thread Starter: Dirty
Most Missed Poster: CAPTAIN CAVEMAN
Moderator of the Year: Vanilla
Member of the Year 2011: Big3

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Guybrush

Thanks mate! Although early this year, I finally got frustrated enough with MB to quit as a mod and take a long break while working on my own website, so I really haven't been such a big contributor this year.

Since then, I notice Pedestrian's been (more than) filling my shoes, doing these awards, album clubs, members compilations, themed weeks ..

She'd be my pick

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Guybrush

To me, biggest contributor is definetly something that the mods are most deserving of. They're working for free to protect the community from disturbance and ensure the quality of the site. A lot of the work they do is invisible to regular users and it's often a thankless job, particularly from the site admins who never took an interest in going-ons when I was a mod.

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Above

Best Avatar: jackhammer - You've got to love Pink Freud

Most Enigmatic: tore - I keep seeing you around, but I don't know much about you; your intentions, or anything about you at all.

Nicest Member: jackhammer - Never seen a mean-spirited post from you.

Best Mediator: Janszoon - For taking an appropriate and relative response to sensitive topics.

Biggest Troll: Dirty - Does this really need explaining?

Biggest Contributor: Pedestrian - I don't know how you invest so much effort into this community. We'd be lost as a community without you.

Most Obscure Music Taste: Jack Pat - I find it really hard to understand your taste in music, but it's interesting.

Best Music Taste: Janszoon - Industrial buddies.

Biggest Music Nerd: Stu - You seem to know your stuff about every genre I've seen mentioned. Good to have you around the Electronica forum.

Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian - It really ties in with the contribution award, but you've been great.

Janszoon - Again, it ties in with the award I nominated you for earlier. You handle disputes really well.

Best New Member 2011: TomClancy11 - You seem to fit in really well, even from my limited experience.

Member of the Year 2011: Stu - For speaking your mind and having a wealth of knowledge about music.

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Best Avatar: First would be Tumor, because when I saw the Christmas hat I literally almost died. Second on my list would be Hank the Drifter, TVZ is my favorite performer and it's a quaint picture of him. Third would be Jackhammer, as I found his current avatar quite clever. Honorable mention to Antonio for the Nyan Cat.
Sexiest Member (Male): I think Freebase Dali is a very pretty man, and since I can't vote for myself I'll have to vote for him. I'll also nominate Il Duce and.. what the hell? Big3 is a good looking guy.
Sexiest Member (Female): Pedestrian is a very pretty lady, I'd be kidding myself not to nominate Vanilla again this year, and Tumor has a good look. This was seriously way too hard to choose.
Most Inane:Dirty definitely gets my vote here. He was a fun guy, had the habit of taking things too far, and in the end didn't end up contributing much to the music side of the forum. Basically, for better or worse, he was the biggest lounger ever.
Most Enigmatic:CanwllCorfe takes the cake here. I don't know much about him, and judging by his choice of music - he's most likely one of the most awesome weirdos you'll ever meet. Also nominating Big3 just because his perspectives, opinions and even his prose is usually very different. Sometimes this is refreshing, sometimes it's off-putting, but I never know what to expect from him. NumberNineDream gets my third nomination. She may have barely posted this year, but she's one of the coolest, most enigmatic characters in MB history.
Angriest Member:GuitarBizarre, definitely. Although his anger definitely seems more like righteous indigence - I can usually see where he's coming from. But he's angry nonetheless. Boo Boo is second. Our archvillain (or maybe that's just how he sees it) reared his head briefly this year, albeit indirectly, and went on one of his trademark pissy-fits. Is pissy-fits a term? Oh well, it is now.
Biggest Drama Whore:boo boo, the guy just can't let go. Dirty, the guy... just.. can't.. let.. go. Tumor, she just can't help herself.
Nicest Member:I think Janszoon should win this one for people incredibly personable yet not at all a pushover.
Best Debater:Ska Logos Jew Sun Ra and Big3. They've been on a multi-page, very well articulated and researched debate about Beavis and Butthead. I think this says enough. Janszoon also gets a nomination.
Worst Debater: No nominations from me.
Best Writer: big3, trollheart, and newcomer Above for her very personal journal.
Biggest Virtuoso:RezZ and Freebase Dali.
Smartest Poster: tore and Janszoon strike me as very critical, down to earth thinkers.
Funniest Member:Urban Hatemonger for his intentional humor and The Virgin for his unintentional humor (at least, we think it was unintentional. The great debate continues...)
Best Mediator:The Entire Mod Staff. Yes, that is my nomination. Although we had a few kinks to work out as a mostly new team, I think we've managed to become an effective, cohesive unit. Far more effective as mediators than other forums I've visited, where moderators essentially act as clean-up crews.
Biggest Troll:THE VIRGIN. Can I nominate him three separate times?

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Howard the Duck

Okay, i decided to take another shot at this, since it was planned for three nominations, decided to think harder - top spot goes to the first, next two are runner-ups:-

Best Avatar: Janszoon (not just the multi-eyed one, every other one has been as interesting), djchameleon (sexy), Vanilla (always funny)

Sexiest Member (Male): Thom Yorke, Freebase Dali and Odyshape

Sexiest Member (Female): BurningDown, Vegangelica and holly984

Most Inane: The Phanastasio, dirty and s_k

Most Enigmatic: skaltezon, scissorman (don't see him anywhere else besides picture threads) and lovesong

Angriest Member: blastingas10, lucifer_sam (will just simply pick on anybody's post), Engine

Biggest Drama Whore: Ska Lagos Sun Jew Ra, Paloma, The Virgin

Nicest Member: s_k, Vegangelica, Linsaholic

Best Debater: steveeden888, Janszoon, tore

Worst Debater: eraser.time306, hip hop bunny bop (bullies you into submission rather than making a point), The Virgin (doesn't really know what he's talking about)

Best Writer: anticipation, tore, BurningDown

Biggest Virtuoso: SIRIUSB, TheGuitarBizarre, BurningDown

Smartest Poster: DayVan Cowboy, tore, Janzsoon

Funniest Member: The Batlord, lucifer_sam (his random picking on people is funny as long as I'm not on the receiving end), Janzsoon

Best Mediator: pedestrian, JackPat, doctorsoft

Biggest Troll: The Virgin, Baggs, eraser.time306

Biggest Contributor: tore, pedestrian, Lisnaholic (mostly for his folk threads)

Most Improved Member: hip hop bunny bop, i really can't think of anybody being particularly bad then improved, most just left

Most Underrated Poster: Mighty Salami, DayVan Cowboy, Lisnaholic

Most Mainstream Music Taste: djchameleon, The Virgin, me (?)

Most Obscure Music Taste: JackPat, Ska Lagos Sun Jew Ra, pedestrian (?)

Best Music Taste: JackPat, Jackhammer, Garrett (mostly cos of the 60s psyche and blues rock, which i love)

Biggest Music Nerd: Unknown Soldier, JackPat, BurningDown

Best Thread Starter: Urban Hatemonger, pedestrian, Stu

Most Missed Poster: djchameleon, boozinbloozin, oojay

Thread of the Year: The Virgin's Coming Out Thread, can't think of any others, but i like a lot of those religious and vegetarianism debates

Journal of the Year: seldom read

Moderator of the Year: Freebase Dali, pedestrian, Vanilla

Best New Member 2011: TomClancy11, Mighty Salami, mankycaant

Member of the Year 2011: loose lips sink ships, tore, pedestrian

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