The 2012 Music Banter User Awards: NOMINATIONS!

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-21-2012, 11:26 PM

Welcome to the event you've been preparing for since you weren't nominated the last time it was on: The 2012 Music Banter User Awards (The Nomination Round)! We've had a lot of great and sometimes questionable people come and go this year, and here's your chance to say what you feel about them. The awards will be a bit different this year, to maximize the amusement and streamline the awards, so please take a moment to read the guidelines below.

The Nomination Round will run until December 10th to give all participants time to alter their nominations, and all the stragglers an opportunity to have their say.
You may nominate up to three people for each category. You may nominate fewer people, or nobody at all if you so desire, and honourable mentions are welcome.
To be eligible for the final vote, a user must be nominated three separate times.
Please write a brief explanation about why you selected the people you did for each award; a sentence or two about why they earned it. This is about recognition, so let's recognize!
Please keep your nominations confined to one post. You may edit this post until the deadline, and you may post to inform people that you edited your post, but collecting data from a hundred different comments is a nightmare and I may hang myself before the month is up.
Please no butthurt. This is all in fun, and we have some negative awards that previously, everyone has managed to take with a laugh and a grain of salt. To help minimize potential butthurt, please be mindful and don't be too big a dick when you post.
You may not nominate yourself.

P.s. This is the final list, I took out a couple and added a couple. If more people wanted no negative awards I would have removed them but at this stage there was not enough. Let's try not be nasty and play fair with all of the categories.

THE CATEGORIES:

(A PASTABLE FORM AVAILABLE UNDER THE CUT).

Best avatar - The best member avatar of 2012.
Sexiest Member (male) - The male member with the most sex appeal.
Sexiest Member (female) - The female member with the most sex appeal.
Most Inane - The user who is most vocal about all the dull and irrelevant moments of their day.
Angriest member - The bitterest member, a cynic who often responds with hostility and bitterness towards new and old members.
Biggest Drama Whore - The member who most often surrounds him or herself with drama.
Nicest member - The kindest member, always makes an effort to treat people well, with respect, and to be nice.
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 Virtuoso - The member with the highest level of skill with an instrumental ability.
Smartest poster - The forums smartest member.
Funniest member - The member with the best sense of humour and who often makes you laugh.
Best Mediator -The member who is best at controlling arguments, limiting negative behaviour but keeping the discussion fair, on-topic and interesting.
Biggest Troll - The member who's presence anywhere in the forums is most disruptive
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 Underrated Poster - The site's biggest underdog - someone who's positive impact on the forums is generally underappreciated or often goes unnoticed.
Most Obscure Music Taste - The member with the most varied or obscure taste in music.
Best Music Taste - The user with your favourite music taste this year.
Biggest music nerd - The member who's most knowledgeable about 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.
Most Missed Poster - The member who's presence on the boards you missed the most in 2012 due to their long periods of absence or inactivity.
Thread of the Year - Your favourite thread created or popularized in 2012.
Best Journal - The best Members Journal.
Moderator of the Year - The member of the mod team who has helped to moderate the site the most in 2012 and who's work and efforts are the most appreciated.
Best new 2012 member - The best new addition to the site in 2012.
Member of the Year 2012 - The overall best member of 2012. The member who we love, appreciate and respect the most.
Biggest Lounge Lizard - This person makes their presence known in the lounge and is here to mingle rather than discussing music.
Member you'd most like to meet in real life - The person you fancy meeting to maybe have a drink with, date or a quick shag!
Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life - The person you'd rather eat dirt than meet for whatever reason.
Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator - The member who abuses the report button, sucks up to the moderators and is constantly instructing new members to abide by the rules.
Most amusing Shoutboxer - The person who consistently amuses you in the shoutbox, perhaps coming up with great one liners.

Spoiler for THE FORM:

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-25-2012, 08:57 PM

Nobody wanting to nominate?

Meddle · 11-25-2012, 08:58 PM

I nominate myself for everything.

Stephen · 11-25-2012, 09:23 PM

I nominate Lisnaholic for Member of the Year 2012 for his intelligent, knowledgeable, well considered and respectful posts across the boards and his thankless dedication to the FAIR club.

Edit:
I'll just add Bob for a combo of best/most obscure music taste.

Most Obscure Music Taste: Bob.
Best Music Taste: Bob.

**Exo** · 11-25-2012, 09:37 PM

No movie buff award? No awards for me this year.

Thom Yorke · 11-26-2012, 12:31 AM

I'll just do a few right now, and update the rest/add some more explanations later.

Best avatar - Sparky - the dog with the bow on its head (made me laugh everytime I saw it)
Sexiest Member (female) - WWWP because:

FETCHER, Pedestrian
Nicest member - Vegangelica (unbelievably nice; seems to put a lot of thought into her posts and will respond to pretty much everyone)
Biggest Virtuoso - Arkeologists Norman (I guess he counts? One of the better new producers out there)
Smartest poster - TheBig3 (seems to be pretty expressive but always seems to have something intelligent to say)
Funniest member - Sparky (because he's funny? Doesn't seem to take himself seriously)
Best Mediator -Janszoon (respected by everyone so it's almost easy for him to mediate in any situation)
Most Improved Member - PoorOldPo (signed up last year but didn't post much outside the art thread. I remember putting him down as the most enigmatic last year because of that, and I'm glad to see he's stuck around and expanded into other areas)
Best Music Taste - Goofle (don't like everything he likes, but I think it's a pretty close match for the most part), Sparky, Loathsome Pete
Biggest music nerd - bob. (I'd try to explain my choice but it probably wouldn't do it justice)
Most Missed Poster - thedownwardspiral (put him down last year as well, I think. Where ya been, man?), Il Duce
Member of the Year 2012 - Janszoon (the bearded face of MB)
Sexiest Member (Male): Alfred, PoorOldPo
Best Writer: Pedestrian
Most Underrated Poster: stp, Mr. d00d, Sparky
Most Obscure Music Taste: bob.
Best Thread Starter: Urban Hatemonger
Thread of the Year: WWWP's Picture Gallery
Journal of the Year: Time & Place
Moderator of the Year: Loathsome Pete, Pedestrian, Burning Down
Best New Member 2012: frigginparadox
Member you'd most like to meet in real life: Sparky, Janszoon, WWWP

Blarobbarg · 11-26-2012, 12:59 AM

Best Avatar: Exoskeletal, or sure. Just look at that picture with the smoke and the eyes and the mysterious awesomeness. It's perfect.

Sexiest Member (Male): Gotta go with RVCA for this one. Dude makes me jealous with those smoldering looks and magnificent beard.

Sexiest Member (Female): I've always thought that WWWP was good looking.

Most Inane: Franco Pepe Kalle. Is there anything else that needs to be said?

Angriest Member: Urban Hatemonger? It's in his name. He mongers hate.

Biggest Drama Whore: GuitarBizarre. After reading his posts, it seems pretty obvious that he looks for trouble. I've had several nice conversations with him, so it's not like I hate him or anything, but he's kinda out to get... everyone, I guess.

Nicest Member: VEGANGELICA. She's basically kindhearted to everyone on the board. She's especially warm and welcoming to the new members. She really stands out amongst the bitter sarcasm that is typical with most MBers.

Best Debater:

Worst Debater: Norg. If there was an award for "Worst Member of the Year" I would nominate him in that category. The guy sis the most pointless, terrible poster we have.

Best Writer: Janszoon. Not only was his last journal the best writing I have ever seen on these forums, his new journal looks like it may surpass it.

Biggest Virtuoso: Plankton. He's a really, really good guitarist, and makes all of his own music. It's good stuff.

Smartest Poster: Tore. He's a Scientist. And based on how intelligent he seems in his posts, I'm pretty sure he has a doctorate in everything.

Funniest Member: Franco Pepe Kalle. Although it's all unintentional, he has some of the most quotable, hilarious posts. He's one of the only posters that can make me legitimately laugh out loud.

Best Mediator:

Biggest Troll: Hip Hop Bunny Hop. Half the time he seems sincere, half the time he just seems to want to start something.

Most Improved Member:

Most Underrated Poster:

Most Obscure Music Taste: Frownland. Musique concrete, the freest of free jazz, drone, pretty much anything that makes people uncomfortable.

Best Music Taste: A tie between Janszoon and Goofle. Literally anything either of them post is pure gold in my ears.

Biggest Music Nerd: Bob. He knows about more out-there, obscure, foreign, unknown (or a combination thereof) bands or artists than almost anyone else on the forum. At first I wrote him off, because honestly, I find his writing style to be a bit immature, but he knows his stuff.

Best Thread Starter:

Most Missed Poster: I was already considering it, but now that we know for sure that Howard the Duck/Il Duce has died of a heart attack, he deserves the award, for sure. He was absolutely insane, but I enjoyed his craziness, and I'm gonna miss him.

Thread of the Year: WWWP's Member Picture Gallery. This thread. This thread is the most brilliant of all threads, ever. Ever.

Journal of the Year: Unknown Soldier's "A Hard and Heavy History." It's pretty much one of the most well-thought-out, research-heavy, intelligent music-based journals I've ever read, not even just on MB.

Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian. She puts so much effort into making this place fun and enjoyable for the rest of us! Also, she put hats on all our avatars. That wins brownie points from me.

Best New Member 2012: Rjinn. She's integrated herself so quickly into the community it's like she's been here forever! Also, she's awesome.

Member of the Year 2012: I really like PoorOlPo and mojopinuck. Both for their personalities and for their taste in music (plus, Po makes crazy good art, which is always okay in my book). I mostly just wanted to nominate them for something or another, and I'd already filled up the other slots with other people, so I'm nominating them both for Member of the Year.

Biggest Lounge Lizard: FlyingPig. He only posts in the Your Day thread.

Member you'd most like to meet in real life: Frownland again. We seem to have a lot in common, and I've probably had more conversations with them in the Shoutbox than with anyone else. He's just a cool dude all around.

Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life: Hip Hop Bunny Hop again... honestly, I think that if we tried to hang out we'd just end up in a shouting match. Or maybe not.

Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator: Trollheart. Despite the fact that this award seems negative, I don't view it as such. TH is always reminding members of the rules, and generally making sure that the forum is well. That's good in my booK!

Most amusing Shoutboxer: It's gonna be a tie between Hermione and Forward To Death on this one. Both of them are really fun to banter with on there.

I'll be back with more later, when I look around the boards and think about it some more.

14232949 · 11-26-2012, 11:00 AM

I'm going to do a brutally honest shoot, so don't get butthurt anyone.

Best Avatar: Trollheart. Mr Burns is one of my favourite Simpsons characters. Phantom Limb also has a good taste in avatars.

Sexiest Member (Male): I remember thinking TheBig3 was a handsome man.
Sexiest Member (Female):

Either FETCHER or Hermoine, both are cute alternative looking girls.
Most Inane: The Batlord Rarely has anything of interest to say outside a lame pun or an attempt to be funny.
Angriest Member: Urban Hatemonger seems like a rather aggressive individual. He couldn't step to this though.
Biggest Drama Whore: Anyone of the members who use The Bitch Box to complain about their sh/t lives.

Nicest Member: Burning Down's always seemed friendly. Trollheart too is always welcoming to newer members. Janzoon also picks up a nomination as father figure of the forum.
Best Debater: Most posters don't seem to have any reasoning behind why they feel certain ways, and when you call them on it, they usually hide. So, this is a hard award for me to nominate someone towards.
I remember MrDood giving me a good counter to an Aesop Rock debate, so I'm going with him. He's usually pretty intelligent and has a passion that makes me interested in his side of the debate.
Worst Debater:

Vanilla. You seem lovely and all, but I question your knowledge at times. I remember thinking why does she like this artist or music, and there never being any attached reasoning.
Best Writer: I enjoy Janzoon's style of writing. His 25 albums Journal was really interesting to read.
Biggest Virtuoso: Err...

Smartest Poster: Can we nominate ourselves?

Naa, in reality; Freebase Dali has always struck me as rather clever as has TheBig3

Funniest Member: Franco Pepe Kelle. He's the drunk man falling over. His comedy is painfully unintentional, but the only member that makes me constantly Laugh out Loud. Anyone seen his twitter?

Best Mediator: Pedestrian and Burning Down always seem like they want to keep things calm. But I suppose that's in their job description as moderators.
Biggest Troll: Hip Hop Bunny Hop. He loves to provoke a reaction out of the forum with his almost Nazi-like posting style.
I can just imagine him sitting behind his computer with a massive grin on his face when people bite at the bait he keeps dangling.
Most Improved Member: Slow Groove. Took him a while to fit in I think, but the kid's come into his own in the last few months and has a good taste in music.
Most Underrated Poster: Duga. The guy has a good taste in music, I find his posts interesting and I've always got on well with him, yet he never gets taking into consideration when people talk about those who contribute positively.
Most Obscure Music Taste: Bob. I'm starting to think he's making up most the artists in his 10 song shuffle posts. I'm usually quite happy if I've heard of one of the bands he has.
Best Music Taste: Goofle. Cool guy, really into hip-hop and probably has the taste most like my own so he gets the nod.
Props to Alfred as well for being one of the few people into emo/hardcore.
Biggest Music Nerd: I'm assuming since he took the time to find all his obscure bands that Bob's a bit of a nerd.
Jackhammer seems a bit nerdy too. I get the impression he was around at the beginning of electronic music.
Best Thread Starter: Pedestrian usually has some pretty good thread ideas. Pity most of them fall flat due to a lack of forum participation.
Most Missed Poster: Salami. I like this kid, always fun and always good for chat about anything. The forum was better with him, in my opinion despite the fact he drew X-pac heat most of the time.
Thread of the Year: Is it going to be anything other than WWWP's drawing of members thread?
Journal of the Year: Trollheart's thread is incredibly detailed and props to him for the amount of effort that goes into it, even though he rambles too much

Janzoon's 25 albums thread takes it though. More members need to create journals.
Moderator of the Year: Yac
Best New Member 2012: Nobody has set the world ablaze in my opinion, I don't know is Plankton new?
Member of the Year 2012: This is hard. One member who has stood head and shoulders above everyone else. Argh... I can't do this one. Sorry.
Biggest Lounge Lizard: Hermoine. She's never in the music forums.
Member you'd most like to meet in real life: ThePhantasio. She's into her wrestling. That's good enough for me. Goofle's a cool guy too, we could probably have a good night out or two. Franco as well, just because I want to take him to Private Eyes and watch him get kicked out.
Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life: Hip-Hop Bunny Hop. I don't imagine he has many friends. A really below par human being.
Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator: Trollheart!!! Always quick to remind everyone of the rules.
Most amusing Shoutboxer

Forward to Death must live in the shoutbox. She's always there and always has something to talk about. Even if most of the time it's about how much she d/ckrides Tool.

Necromancer · 11-26-2012, 01:15 PM

Best avatar - Duga

Sexiest Member (male) -

Sexiest Member (female) - Fetcher

Most Inane -

Angriest member -

Biggest Drama Whore -

Nicest member - Unknown Soldier, Batlord, & Fred Hale Sr.

Best debater - Right-Track.

Worst debater -

Best Writer -

Biggest Virtuoso -

Smartest poster - Right-Track

Funniest member - Urban Hatemonger ? & Janszoon.

Best Mediator -

Biggest Troll -

Most Improved Member - Fred Hale Sr.

Most Underrated Poster - mr. dave, ZerO is really underrated.

Most Obscure Music Taste -

Best Music Taste -

Biggest music nerd -

Best Thread Starter -

Most Missed Poster - I miss Jack Pat a lot! Tumor, ElephantSack, OctaneHugo.I even miss Captain Caveman.

Thread of the Year -

Best Journal -

Moderator of the Year - Freebase Dali.

Best new 2012 member - Frownland, Plankton.

Member of the Year 2012 - Janszoon.

Biggest Lounge Lizard -

Member you'd most like to meet in real life - Right-Track.

Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life -

Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator -

Most amusing Shout boxer -

Bloozcrooz · 11-26-2012, 03:12 PM

Best Avatar- jackhammer
Sexiest Member-(female) Burning Down
Sexiest Member (male) ewww
Most Inane- Batlord
Agriest Member- GuitarBizzare
Biggest Drama Whore- HHBH
Nicest Member-Lisnaholic
Best Debater- The Big3
Worst Debater- Me
Best Writer- Batlord
Biggest Virtuoso- Rezz

Smartest Poster-Freebase Dali
Funniest Member- Batlord
Best Mediator- Burning Down
Biggest Troll- Franco
Most Improved Member- Fred Hale Sr.
Most Underrated Poster- Engine
Most Obscure Music Taste-Bob
Best Music Taste- Janszoon
Biggest Music Nerd- Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra....is he still here?
Best Thread Starter-?
Most Missed Poster-Dirty
Thread Of The Year-?
Journal Of The Year-
Moderator Of The Year- Freebase Dali
Best New Member 2012- Plankton
Member Of The Year 2012- Fetcher
Biggest Lounge Lizzard- Hermione
Member You'd Most Like To Meet In Real Life-Jackhammer,Burning Down,Janszoon,Freebase Dali, Fred Hale, Engine, Vanilla, and others of you I cant remember at the moment.
Member You'd Least Like To Meet In real Life-Franco
Biggest Wanna Be Moderator-Trollheart
Most Amusing Shout Boxer- Dont use it much but I'll say Blarobbarg

11-21-2012, 11:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,181	The 2012 Music Banter User Awards: NOMINATIONS! Welcome to the event you've been preparing for since you weren't nominated the last time it was on: The 2012 Music Banter User Awards (The Nomination Round)! We've had a lot of great and sometimes questionable people come and go this year, and here's your chance to say what you feel about them. The awards will be a bit different this year, to maximize the amusement and streamline the awards, so please take a moment to read the guidelines below. The Nomination Round will run until December 10th to give all participants time to alter their nominations, and all the stragglers an opportunity to have their say. You may nominate up to three people for each category. You may nominate fewer people, or nobody at all if you so desire, and honourable mentions are welcome. To be eligible for the final vote, a user must be nominated three separate times. Please write a brief explanation about why you selected the people you did for each award; a sentence or two about why they earned it. This is about recognition, so let's recognize! Please keep your nominations confined to one post. You may edit this post until the deadline, and you may post to inform people that you edited your post, but collecting data from a hundred different comments is a nightmare and I may hang myself before the month is up. Please no butthurt. This is all in fun, and we have some negative awards that previously, everyone has managed to take with a laugh and a grain of salt. To help minimize potential butthurt, please be mindful and don't be too big a dick when you post. You may not nominate yourself. P.s. This is the final list, I took out a couple and added a couple. If more people wanted no negative awards I would have removed them but at this stage there was not enough. Let's try not be nasty and play fair with all of the categories. THE CATEGORIES: (A PASTABLE FORM AVAILABLE UNDER THE CUT). Best avatar - The best member avatar of 2012. Sexiest Member (male) - The male member with the most sex appeal. Sexiest Member (female) - The female member with the most sex appeal. Most Inane - The user who is most vocal about all the dull and irrelevant moments of their day. Angriest member - The bitterest member, a cynic who often responds with hostility and bitterness towards new and old members. Biggest Drama Whore - The member who most often surrounds him or herself with drama. Nicest member - The kindest member, always makes an effort to treat people well, with respect, and to be nice. 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 Virtuoso - The member with the highest level of skill with an instrumental ability. Smartest poster - The forums smartest member. Funniest member - The member with the best sense of humour and who often makes you laugh. Best Mediator -The member who is best at controlling arguments, limiting negative behaviour but keeping the discussion fair, on-topic and interesting. Biggest Troll - The member who's presence anywhere in the forums is most disruptive 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 Underrated Poster - The site's biggest underdog - someone who's positive impact on the forums is generally underappreciated or often goes unnoticed. Most Obscure Music Taste - The member with the most varied or obscure taste in music. Best Music Taste - The user with your favourite music taste this year. Biggest music nerd - The member who's most knowledgeable about 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. Most Missed Poster - The member who's presence on the boards you missed the most in 2012 due to their long periods of absence or inactivity. Thread of the Year - Your favourite thread created or popularized in 2012. Best Journal - The best Members Journal. Moderator of the Year - The member of the mod team who has helped to moderate the site the most in 2012 and who's work and efforts are the most appreciated. Best new 2012 member - The best new addition to the site in 2012. Member of the Year 2012 - The overall best member of 2012. The member who we love, appreciate and respect the most. Biggest Lounge Lizard - This person makes their presence known in the lounge and is here to mingle rather than discussing music. Member you'd most like to meet in real life - The person you fancy meeting to maybe have a drink with, date or a quick shag! Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life - The person you'd rather eat dirt than meet for whatever reason. Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator - The member who abuses the report button, sucks up to the moderators and is constantly instructing new members to abide by the rules. Most amusing Shoutboxer - The person who consistently amuses you in the shoutbox, perhaps coming up with great one liners. Spoiler for THE FORM: Best Avatar: Sexiest Member (Male): Sexiest Member (Female): Most Inane: Angriest Member: Biggest Drama Whore: Nicest Member: Best Debater: Worst Debater: Best Writer: Biggest Virtuoso: Smartest Poster: Funniest Member: Best Mediator: Biggest Troll: Most Improved Member: Most Underrated Poster: Most Obscure Music Taste: Best Music Taste: Biggest Music Nerd: Best Thread Starter: Most Missed Poster: Thread of the Year: Journal of the Year: Moderator of the Year: Best New Member 2012: Member of the Year 2012: Biggest Lounge Lizard: Member you'd most like to meet in real life: Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life: Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator: Most amusing Shoutboxer __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

11-25-2012, 08:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,181	Nobody wanting to nominate? __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

11-25-2012, 08:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
Meddle Groupie Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Augusta, GA Posts: 28	I nominate myself for everything. __________________ "Each year that passes rings you inwardly with memory and might. Wield your heart, and the world will tremble." lastfm

11-25-2012, 09:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,847	I nominate Lisnaholic for Member of the Year 2012 for his intelligent, knowledgeable, well considered and respectful posts across the boards and his thankless dedication to the FAIR club. Edit: I'll just add Bob for a combo of best/most obscure music taste. Most Obscure Music Taste: Bob. Best Music Taste: Bob. Last edited by Stephen; 12-05-2012 at 11:46 PM.

11-25-2012, 09:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	No movie buff award? No awards for me this year. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

11-26-2012, 12:31 AM	#6 (permalink)
Thom Yorke Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,848	I'll just do a few right now, and update the rest/add some more explanations later. Best avatar - Sparky - the dog with the bow on its head (made me laugh everytime I saw it) Sexiest Member (female) - WWWP because: FETCHER, Pedestrian Nicest member - Vegangelica (unbelievably nice; seems to put a lot of thought into her posts and will respond to pretty much everyone) Biggest Virtuoso - Arkeologists Norman (I guess he counts? One of the better new producers out there) Smartest poster - TheBig3 (seems to be pretty expressive but always seems to have something intelligent to say) Funniest member - Sparky (because he's funny? Doesn't seem to take himself seriously) Best Mediator -Janszoon (respected by everyone so it's almost easy for him to mediate in any situation) Most Improved Member - PoorOldPo (signed up last year but didn't post much outside the art thread. I remember putting him down as the most enigmatic last year because of that, and I'm glad to see he's stuck around and expanded into other areas) Best Music Taste - Goofle (don't like everything he likes, but I think it's a pretty close match for the most part), Sparky, Loathsome Pete Biggest music nerd - bob. (I'd try to explain my choice but it probably wouldn't do it justice) Most Missed Poster - thedownwardspiral (put him down last year as well, I think. Where ya been, man?), Il Duce Member of the Year 2012 - Janszoon (the bearded face of MB) Sexiest Member (Male): Alfred, PoorOldPo Best Writer: Pedestrian Most Underrated Poster: stp, Mr. d00d, Sparky Most Obscure Music Taste: bob. Best Thread Starter: Urban Hatemonger Thread of the Year: WWWP's Picture Gallery Journal of the Year: Time & Place Moderator of the Year: Loathsome Pete, Pedestrian, Burning Down Best New Member 2012: frigginparadox Member you'd most like to meet in real life: Sparky, Janszoon, WWWP Last edited by Thom Yorke; 12-09-2012 at 10:37 AM.

11-26-2012, 12:59 AM	#7 (permalink)
Blarobbarg Do good. Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Posts: 2,065	Best Avatar: Exoskeletal, or sure. Just look at that picture with the smoke and the eyes and the mysterious awesomeness. It's perfect. Sexiest Member (Male): Gotta go with RVCA for this one. Dude makes me jealous with those smoldering looks and magnificent beard. Sexiest Member (Female): I've always thought that WWWP was good looking. Most Inane: Franco Pepe Kalle. Is there anything else that needs to be said? Angriest Member: Urban Hatemonger? It's in his name. He mongers hate. Biggest Drama Whore: GuitarBizarre. After reading his posts, it seems pretty obvious that he looks for trouble. I've had several nice conversations with him, so it's not like I hate him or anything, but he's kinda out to get... everyone, I guess. Nicest Member: VEGANGELICA. She's basically kindhearted to everyone on the board. She's especially warm and welcoming to the new members. She really stands out amongst the bitter sarcasm that is typical with most MBers. Best Debater: Worst Debater: Norg. If there was an award for "Worst Member of the Year" I would nominate him in that category. The guy sis the most pointless, terrible poster we have. Best Writer: Janszoon. Not only was his last journal the best writing I have ever seen on these forums, his new journal looks like it may surpass it. Biggest Virtuoso: Plankton. He's a really, really good guitarist, and makes all of his own music. It's good stuff. Smartest Poster: Tore. He's a Scientist. And based on how intelligent he seems in his posts, I'm pretty sure he has a doctorate in everything. Funniest Member: Franco Pepe Kalle. Although it's all unintentional, he has some of the most quotable, hilarious posts. He's one of the only posters that can make me legitimately laugh out loud. Best Mediator: Biggest Troll: Hip Hop Bunny Hop. Half the time he seems sincere, half the time he just seems to want to start something. Most Improved Member: Most Underrated Poster: Most Obscure Music Taste: Frownland. Musique concrete, the freest of free jazz, drone, pretty much anything that makes people uncomfortable. Best Music Taste: A tie between Janszoon and Goofle. Literally anything either of them post is pure gold in my ears. Biggest Music Nerd: Bob. He knows about more out-there, obscure, foreign, unknown (or a combination thereof) bands or artists than almost anyone else on the forum. At first I wrote him off, because honestly, I find his writing style to be a bit immature, but he knows his stuff. Best Thread Starter: Most Missed Poster: I was already considering it, but now that we know for sure that Howard the Duck/Il Duce has died of a heart attack, he deserves the award, for sure. He was absolutely insane, but I enjoyed his craziness, and I'm gonna miss him. Thread of the Year: WWWP's Member Picture Gallery. This thread. This thread is the most brilliant of all threads, ever. Ever. Journal of the Year: Unknown Soldier's "A Hard and Heavy History." It's pretty much one of the most well-thought-out, research-heavy, intelligent music-based journals I've ever read, not even just on MB. Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian. She puts so much effort into making this place fun and enjoyable for the rest of us! Also, she put hats on all our avatars. That wins brownie points from me. Best New Member 2012: Rjinn. She's integrated herself so quickly into the community it's like she's been here forever! Also, she's awesome. Member of the Year 2012: I really like PoorOlPo and mojopinuck. Both for their personalities and for their taste in music (plus, Po makes crazy good art, which is always okay in my book). I mostly just wanted to nominate them for something or another, and I'd already filled up the other slots with other people, so I'm nominating them both for Member of the Year. Biggest Lounge Lizard: FlyingPig. He only posts in the Your Day thread. Member you'd most like to meet in real life: Frownland again. We seem to have a lot in common, and I've probably had more conversations with them in the Shoutbox than with anyone else. He's just a cool dude all around. Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life: Hip Hop Bunny Hop again... honestly, I think that if we tried to hang out we'd just end up in a shouting match. Or maybe not. Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator: Trollheart. Despite the fact that this award seems negative, I don't view it as such. TH is always reminding members of the rules, and generally making sure that the forum is well. That's good in my booK! Most amusing Shoutboxer: It's gonna be a tie between Hermione and Forward To Death on this one. Both of them are really fun to banter with on there. I'll be back with more later, when I look around the boards and think about it some more. __________________ https://rateyourmusic.com/~Blarobbarg ｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆　^my RYM^　｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆ (◠‿◠✿) Last edited by Blarobbarg; 12-09-2012 at 03:15 PM.

11-26-2012, 11:00 AM	#8 (permalink)
14232949 The Big Dog Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Scotland Posts: 1,989	I'm going to do a brutally honest shoot, so don't get butthurt anyone. Best Avatar: Trollheart. Mr Burns is one of my favourite Simpsons characters. Phantom Limb also has a good taste in avatars. Sexiest Member (Male): I remember thinking TheBig3 was a handsome man. Sexiest Member (Female): Either FETCHER or Hermoine, both are cute alternative looking girls. Most Inane: The Batlord Rarely has anything of interest to say outside a lame pun or an attempt to be funny. Angriest Member: Urban Hatemonger seems like a rather aggressive individual. He couldn't step to this though. Biggest Drama Whore: Anyone of the members who use The Bitch Box to complain about their sh/t lives. Nicest Member: Burning Down's always seemed friendly. Trollheart too is always welcoming to newer members. Janzoon also picks up a nomination as father figure of the forum. Best Debater: Most posters don't seem to have any reasoning behind why they feel certain ways, and when you call them on it, they usually hide. So, this is a hard award for me to nominate someone towards. I remember MrDood giving me a good counter to an Aesop Rock debate, so I'm going with him. He's usually pretty intelligent and has a passion that makes me interested in his side of the debate. Worst Debater: Vanilla. You seem lovely and all, but I question your knowledge at times. I remember thinking why does she like this artist or music, and there never being any attached reasoning. Best Writer: I enjoy Janzoon's style of writing. His 25 albums Journal was really interesting to read. Biggest Virtuoso: Err... Smartest Poster: Can we nominate ourselves? Naa, in reality; Freebase Dali has always struck me as rather clever as has TheBig3 Funniest Member: Franco Pepe Kelle. He's the drunk man falling over. His comedy is painfully unintentional, but the only member that makes me constantly Laugh out Loud. Anyone seen his twitter? Best Mediator: Pedestrian and Burning Down always seem like they want to keep things calm. But I suppose that's in their job description as moderators. Biggest Troll: Hip Hop Bunny Hop. He loves to provoke a reaction out of the forum with his almost Nazi-like posting style. I can just imagine him sitting behind his computer with a massive grin on his face when people bite at the bait he keeps dangling. Most Improved Member: Slow Groove. Took him a while to fit in I think, but the kid's come into his own in the last few months and has a good taste in music. Most Underrated Poster: Duga. The guy has a good taste in music, I find his posts interesting and I've always got on well with him, yet he never gets taking into consideration when people talk about those who contribute positively. Most Obscure Music Taste: Bob. I'm starting to think he's making up most the artists in his 10 song shuffle posts. I'm usually quite happy if I've heard of one of the bands he has. Best Music Taste: Goofle. Cool guy, really into hip-hop and probably has the taste most like my own so he gets the nod. Props to Alfred as well for being one of the few people into emo/hardcore. Biggest Music Nerd: I'm assuming since he took the time to find all his obscure bands that Bob's a bit of a nerd. Jackhammer seems a bit nerdy too. I get the impression he was around at the beginning of electronic music. Best Thread Starter: Pedestrian usually has some pretty good thread ideas. Pity most of them fall flat due to a lack of forum participation. Most Missed Poster: Salami. I like this kid, always fun and always good for chat about anything. The forum was better with him, in my opinion despite the fact he drew X-pac heat most of the time. Thread of the Year: Is it going to be anything other than WWWP's drawing of members thread? Journal of the Year: Trollheart's thread is incredibly detailed and props to him for the amount of effort that goes into it, even though he rambles too much Janzoon's 25 albums thread takes it though. More members need to create journals. Moderator of the Year: Yac Best New Member 2012: Nobody has set the world ablaze in my opinion, I don't know is Plankton new? Member of the Year 2012: This is hard. One member who has stood head and shoulders above everyone else. Argh... I can't do this one. Sorry. Biggest Lounge Lizard: Hermoine. She's never in the music forums. Member you'd most like to meet in real life: ThePhantasio. She's into her wrestling. That's good enough for me. Goofle's a cool guy too, we could probably have a good night out or two. Franco as well, just because I want to take him to Private Eyes and watch him get kicked out. Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life: Hip-Hop Bunny Hop. I don't imagine he has many friends. A really below par human being. Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator: Trollheart!!! Always quick to remind everyone of the rules. Most amusing Shoutboxer Forward to Death must live in the shoutbox. She's always there and always has something to talk about. Even if most of the time it's about how much she d/ckrides Tool. Last edited by 14232949; 11-29-2012 at 10:18 AM.

11-26-2012, 01:15 PM	#9 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	Best avatar - Duga Sexiest Member (male) - Sexiest Member (female) - Fetcher Most Inane - Angriest member - Biggest Drama Whore - Nicest member - Unknown Soldier, Batlord, & Fred Hale Sr. Best debater - Right-Track. Worst debater - Best Writer - Biggest Virtuoso - Smartest poster - Right-Track Funniest member - Urban Hatemonger ? & Janszoon. Best Mediator - Biggest Troll - Most Improved Member - Fred Hale Sr. Most Underrated Poster - mr. dave, ZerO is really underrated. Most Obscure Music Taste - Best Music Taste - Biggest music nerd - Best Thread Starter - Most Missed Poster - I miss Jack Pat a lot! Tumor, ElephantSack, OctaneHugo.I even miss Captain Caveman. Thread of the Year - Best Journal - Moderator of the Year - Freebase Dali. Best new 2012 member - Frownland, Plankton. Member of the Year 2012 - Janszoon. Biggest Lounge Lizard - Member you'd most like to meet in real life - Right-Track. Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life - Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator - Most amusing Shout boxer - Last edited by Necromancer; 12-06-2012 at 10:12 PM.