Yeah, it would so totally be me.
At those rates, I'll never say that to you again either.

I really like these ones.

Also a lot of people are just posting statistical categories, like 'Most swearing'.

Find all: Most
Replace with: Best.

There're your categories.

Best huge and/or loose gaping vagina complete with flaccid dangling labia

no alcarpron4me

Best picture!

If that isn't one already.

Speaking of which, would it be in order to put all the categories in the first post as they get approved? That seems logical.

That’s a good idea. I was holding off on compiling them till I got back to my computer at uni so I could compare with the notes and ideas I made for last year’s awards. I will chat with the other bigwigs.

While the 'bigwigs' are conferring, should I mention that the aforementioned vagina is wearing stretchpants which result in the ultimate cameltoe?

Or... camel-roll?

Oh God.

That is hideous.TAKE ME

um well how about: most annoying

Don't be modest shaman, just suggest a category that you have a 100% instead of 95% chance of winning.

That was cold, man. Ice cold.

Best use of the word 'pedophile'.

i have a 100% chance of winning that and DONT YOU FORGET IT :)

Best use of the Pedobear?

Has pedobear even been used outside of Hobo's avatar?

It certainly has. See pictures of my family.

I have never had a pedobear avatar...

You're thinking of Awesome Face, methinks.

They clearly combine into some kind of Super Robot.

Best hair
Best facial hair
The Final Boss of the Internet Award

Lets just be sure not to limit applicable awards to people who have posted pics, which would automatically disqualify a large portion of participants and automatically qualify me for best hair.

My hair totally beats yours, just wait for the Forum Awards sir.

While you do have awesome curly hair that sends the ladies swooning, the position is relative to what the voters think are good qualities that hair should have.

Meh.

Which begs the question what is "good" hair? No hair? :p

Wil, help me out on this one.

I've got one, how about member 'Most Frequently Present'? Does the database have stats like that?

It’s certainly an idea to hand out awards based on statistics such as ‘Highest poster of 2008’ or ‘Most frequently present’, but assuming no ties there can only ever be one recipient of each award, because each title comes with a winner whose superiority in that field is matter of look-upable fact. The awards are really about voting on your fellow members for more subjective awards. Still, if Peter were to give me database access I’d be more than happy to dish out some stats-based honours.

Categories should also focus on users and their contribution to the Forums. ‘Best hair’ has nothing to do with posting here. Besides, Bullet Magnet would win ‘Best hair’ because he has the best hair. That is in your precious database, sirs.

Most likely to swear repeatedly about European members-of-government?

Person who never gets the joke?

Best change-of-heart?

Best 'Awwww' post?

Captain Cockblock?

most random comment?

funniest post?

worst attitude?

best attitude?

I would like to point out that there is still no list in the first post.

Probably because all of these suggestions suck.

Best blog.
Best blog entry.
Best blog commenter.

And variations of the theme. We have blogs now, and unlike the new rep system we can actually give awards based on them that we couldn't have before.

Best Blog has already made the final list of awards. The second two suggestions probably won't because there are so many that there's little chance of any voted entry/comment not being both joint first and joint last.

What if there are nominations?

Then there’s the issue of whether all categories become nominate-vote, or whether the nominations take place while the non-nomination categories are being voted upon, or whether there are nominations that take place before all the voting.

There’s also the issue of all the hassle. We could try it, see how the effort compares to the outcome, and judge its worthiness for future Awardses.

Shortest lived meme

Longest lived meme

Village idiot

Most obscure referance

Best inside joke

Worst n00b

Most times left/returned

Most unpredictable member

Local clown

Most serious

Least serious

Most likely to start an overblown dramatic situation

Worst award ideas.

Speaking of which, this is from an IM with Max just yesterday:

I'm just hoping Wolfpac will appear from nowhere and give us some awards.

By golly, I miss that guy.

I agree. I miss Wolfpac too.

I'm probably close to this one, what with my past habit of vanishing every 4 or 5 months. Not a good thing.

Are we about ready to do this thing?