Submit your nominees for Comment of the Year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.
Suggestion: look for ideas on /r/bestof.
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Okay, I realize this opinion won't be popular, but at least hear me out. The thing with Wartoad is that he deserves to be the person of the year, though I'm not really sure this deserves to be the comment of the year.
He's done something truly wonderful and retold the story in a very clean manner, though it wasn't something that was fabricated purely for a reddit comment. The reason people love this isn't because of the comment itself, but rather the act that he is describing. I'd have to say something like the Monty Python comment might deserve this particular award a bit more simply because it exists only as a reddit comment. It was born as a comment and lived it's life as a comment. Wartoad's story is a great humanitarian act that was simply brought to light via comment.
Though, playing the devil's advocate to myself, the other side of the coin is that this comment is supposedly the first place he'd ever revealed this story.
Still, vote as you will. I just wanted to share my thoughts.
That was a very good thought. I didn't think about it that way before. I definitely agree with your point. It certainly makes more sense for a comment in and of itself to win the award.
Is it too late to suggest more categories? Maybe for next year.
I think we need to divide this award into categories for "Story comment," "One-liner," and one that covers everything else.
I agree that the "Comment of the Year" award should go toward something exceptionally well-written, clever, or topical. Wartoad's story is a great one, and under other circumstances I think it could be a contender (if he said it in just the right context where it helped someone or provided new insight on a situation, for example). But as it is, it's a standalone story.
As per your comment, I have submitted Wartoad for commenter of the year here.
But again, vote as you will!
Everyone needs to read this comment and learn from Wartoad!
I feel like a big pussy. I started crying before I even finished reading that.
What an awesome guy.
Edit: nevermind, appears many other males cried in the reading of this as well.
Likewise. I'd never seen that comment before either. I instantly love this process for helping me discover it.
later he admitted to making the whole thing up.
just kidding, but it helped you stop crying right?
I'ma gonna need a link to his admittance.
He had me at "WarToad".
If this comment doesn't win, humanity is lost. Wartoad is a gentleman and a scholar.
I quite like this reply.
....Are you serious? Find ANY THREAD on reddit about a man crying. You will find the same fucking lame FotC song quoted, every single time. I'm not kidding. If you only find the dumb lasagna quote ONCE per thread, you're fucking lucky. Generally, seven people in a row will all claim to be making a goddamn lasagna for one as if this is suddenly the wittiest thing ever.
I get teary eyed reading this.
Hello
acegibson, Monty Python sketch
yes, I remember when I first read that and thought it was the greatest most creative comment I had ever read on Reddit.
I thought it was an actual Monty Python sketch until I reread the context.
An actual Monty Python sketch about a cellphone? Were you born in 1999?
Ok. I am almost tempted to recant my nomination for bozarking's comment, this was one of the best comments ever made in reddit, period. Pure, unadulterated genius.
My roomate and I introduced a friend of ours to reddit last night and started him off with reading off some of bozarking's comments!
To which he promptly added reddit.com to his HOSTS file.
"Mr. Findy Fingers." Excellent!
This was the reason I became a Redditor.
Easily the best of the year, creatively. The fact that many sentimental comments are voted higher makes me think there should be a separate category. This was one of the best posts in Reddit history.
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wonderful!
^^ This one.
You're doing it wrong...
It worked though, when he added his plug acegibson was way down at the bottom.
I sacrificed myself for the greater good.
^Not this one.
"Teehee! They're probably brother and sister or something, making it nonsexual and silly." - Bozarking. 4150 points. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/afr4p/shyness/c0hcmui
Sorry Bozarking...
Ok. As a writer, I have to say I like the Monty Python one better. I would feel bad deleting this and ruining all of your guys' upvotes and I don't want to influence this too much but I think white knights are idiots and need to learn how to stop depending on relationships to define their lives, you guys might actually find out what happiness is then.
I think religion is necessary to society as certain humans legitimately need it to find purpose in their lives and that its not religion, but people that have caused problems in the world. Thus people are idiots to say "religion is the cause of our problems" as if religion is some mythical force out to get them. Demagoguery is actually to blame, as leaders use religion as just another tool to control the masses, but it would take too much thought to actually find a solution to that. Much easier to say "religion did it!" Then everyone will feel incredibly stupid when religion is gone and leaders just use something else like political parties to control the masses. Oh and Chrono Cross is just as good as Chrono Trigger.
Oh and I agree with Gabe Newell's sagacious statement that "A product is late for a while, but a product will suck forever" and will gladly wait another year for Episode 3. (all of my comments that have been downvoted into oblivion, I'm giving this my all)
Am I the only one that isn't impressed by Bozarking?
yes
No, you're not.
Upvoted because such an opinion does not need be voted down.
Such a nice guy!
(I bet you've never heard that one before!)
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Nope.
So many better Bozarking posts than that one - I'm sad it was the only one the majority of Reddit got to enjoy.
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Ummm...it is a brilliant post. It is short, to the point while conveying "epic WTF." It alerted the people of Reddit to this unique mind. For that I believe it to be best comment of the year.
This Bozarking comment holds a warm place in my heart.
The man is king of words, I'm not sure if anything he posts is real... but his mind doesn't work like mine, or anyone i know. As mentioned previously, this is the comment that alerted the Reddit community to his famedom, and thus it deserves it.
This is the greatest non-tl;dr wtf nsfw post in history.
nraustinii, This isn't Twitter
-2476 for the parent post... nice.
-2604 11 hours later, maybe this is why posts of a certain age should have their karma locked?
Or why they shouldn't?
Posts do, comments don't.
Why?
Props to Glorificus for not deleting the comment.
Pretty much everyone else does.
I thought the original said "Fucking gays" or something like that, and he edited it... :(
You're right. He must've edited it quite recently.
I'd have to agree with this nomination. This is one of the very few times where I'm dying to find a point in any conversation to bust out that one line.
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ahahaha. I actually logged in just to give him another upvote.
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flossdaily's excellent comments in this thread http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ajsxd/my_girlsfriend_tells_me_i_can_have_some_sex_then/c0hxpmi
He's on track to win the 2010 award as well for this gem right here.
Wow, I didn't get it until the last sentence, he took that to the extreme. Definitely the first person I will friend in my year on reddit.
up voting his 2009 comment solely on the awesomeness of the 2010 comment.
He had better friggin win the 2010 competition.
That comment, after 20 hours, is 1,000 karma away from amassing the amount I've collected in two months of redditing.
edit: Holy crap. In addition to that statistic, flossdaily has managed to get 8,000+ comment karma in 17 days. Looks like karmanaut has some competition.
yeah... that dude is going down.
Now that really is some real life Barney Stinson advice.
My thought exactly.
I know. I love him!
Does this guy live in a barn? Wtf?
They're brilliant. My vote for sure!
Fucking genius.
"This isn't Twitter: try to comment on the article, and not your current activities."
Shameless copy straight from here.
Uh, what? The flossdaily comment is different.
"Fucking genius" looks like description of your activity, right? ;)
Hint: Glorificus comment in my link.
my vote goes to him a million times over. That man is a genious.
I hadn't seen those before. A definite winner IMO.
typower, 21st century syndrome
Thanks guys, it means a lot. The fact that there are people here, that might remember my six month old post, makes my lonely scriblings here on Reddit seem all that more worthwhile.
Thank you all, you made my 21st century night!
Hope you win this one, mate. I enjoyed that comment so so so much. Please, keep scribbling!
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This comment speaks truth. If anything I would like to see this award got to some one who put something into the comment not a one liner or a jab.
I wish I had seen this because I've been thinking of this for a long time.
That which made us humans so smart (a need to communicate) in the beginning is pretty much driving us nuts now. We are now able to stay in touch with everyone and everything and there's nothing in our brain to say "STOP" because previously the limits were physical (you can only be around one person for so long and only hear what one person has to say). Now we can gorge ourselves on communication all damn day if we like.
Oddly inspirational. It's got my vote.
I had a thought the other day about something related.
Earlier in human history the adventurers and risktakers, the people who climbed a mountain in search for a place to live or ventured into unchartered forest to find food, these risks were worth taking because stability could be gained.
Nowadays, stability is all around, but the primal need to take risks and go on adventures is still there in many. Because of the risks involved in risk-taking and no heirs being the results, I think these people (not excluding myself) might disappear from the human race. Bummer.
Don't worry, they'll come back when the final frontier opens up.
That's the problem. I'm worried they might be gone before then. Then we'll be pussies in space.
Does anyone else smell the makings of an awesome porn movie?
As funny (and worthy) as all the other comments are, I seriously do hope typower takes this out. Powerfully inspiring and poetic insight. This, my friends, is a true work of art.
Awesome. Wonderfully written piece. Defiantly gets my vote.
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I like ReanLu's little story after it
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look_of_disapproval, look_of_disapproval's greatest look ever
The guy quit reddit because of it. Look at his comment history.
It was probably an abandoned alt instead of abandoning reddit. His account is as old as his comment and he is complaining about how reddit works?
Either that or it was just a Degro (politically correct way of saying Digger) who just couldn't hack it in the bigs.
Either that or it was just a Degro (politically correct way of saying Digger) who just couldn't hack it in the bigs.
Actually Digroids are always eager for voting up comments like 'lol' and 'dumb link'.
Yeah this occurred to me afterwards, but I like to imagine he saw that -800 and cried, vowing never to return to reddit again. :)
I recall the cook of disapproval had some well placed comments also.
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You know it's a good comment when you know what it is before you click the link above
Thanks for reminding me.. I loved this one.
Nine months later and it still makes me have to stifle giggles so my coworkers don't come over to see what's so funny.
This is a string of comments so I'm not sure if this qualifies but...
i wonder how many upvotes that would have gotten if it wasnt xkcd posting it...
That series of replies got him 23448 points. That's 72% of all his karma right there.
Oh, dear, I remember that. I hope it does count.
This one gets my vote...but only because I take the same approach to MS vs Apple fights.
Upvoted for Linux.
My favorite IAmA of all time. I learn so much from those. Mostly, I learn that people are more kind-hearted and committed to their friends, families and jobs than I could have ever imagined.
Agreed, this has to be my favorite AMA
I still remember this one, people on Reddit are so nice :)
I have never read this IAmA before but I am glad I didn't. Truly touching and deserving of best comment of 2009.
cook_of_disapproval, Who puts soup on their hands before they wash?
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that is amazing. the scary thing is, he probably just sat down and wrote that in one sitting. that would take me a week, and still be nowhere as punchy.
ah well. horses for courses.
I did, actually. It was fun!
Curse you and your creative mind!!
Hope you win though :)
What is it they always say in award shows? Oh yeah... it's an honor just to be nominated.
The whole geraffe bit. I crack up every time I read it.
I think he deleted his account though.
I almost peed myself reading that the first time.
Almost
you people are horrible
would be funny to have the "best comment of 2009" a comment with -662 points. Will make people think "how bad are all the other comments?"
Oh man... I can't breathe... I'm gonna suffocate from laughing at a reddit comment, that's the way I'm going to go....
How did I miss that one the first time around?
At least he isn't a dumb goddamn wall-licking geraffe.
so are you racist for long horses over gorillas? hippocrites.
I think it was how he spelled hypocrites that leads me to believe he realized he was going to keep getting downvoted, so he just kept on trolling us.
In either event, was a masterful troll which made me happy.
I go back to that every few weeks when I need a good laugh.
I just showed it to my husband and nearly suffocated again. wipes away tears
My throat and chest are sore from laughing. There are tears in my eyes. I can't handle this.
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hippocrits =D
These awards are always horribly biased towards recent submissions, but the clear winner is from back in March:
MarlonBain, The Man-Raptor Comment.
I approve this message.
You are right, this is definitely one of my favorite posts over the past year. It still makes me laugh a little.
I'm thinking we need a distinction between best funny comments and best moving comments.
this
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worth it to get this noticed.
SuperStalin, This was to be expected
oldfashionedguy, Awkward...
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It's his birthday cake from the year before - a "happy birthday" around the apple logo made with frosting
It's the cake for his 34th b'day - it has the Apple logo on it.
It's a picture of his last year's cake, which was similar in description to what HugeDouchebag mentioned.
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introduction to cuils
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raids_reveal_baby_farms/c06cqxb
yeah, cuil theory is the best raccoon on the entire German hamburger
It is possible that RedDyeNumber4 is actually David Lynch.
It is possible that we are all actually David Lynch.
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It is malokovich that we are all malkovich Malkovich Malkovich.
-The_Obvious
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
This was during 2009? I thought internet time moved faster than that.
Comments should have a tooltip with the actual date not just relative time. That comment says it was made "1 year ago". If should have a title="03/07/1995" so you can know the exact date.
seriously?
Reddit would have to use a set date format which would mean constant complaining from americans or constant cultural sniping from the rest of the world.
Of course, that sniping is totally warranted; mm/dd/yyyy what are you doing america? Is it too sensible for you? Like the metric system?
Not from America, but there's a solution that satisfies everyone, and is more correct than any current form: yyyy/mm/dd.
This comment saved my life. I explain the story here.
I second this motion.
Now this is what I call an excellent comment of the year candidate.
There is very little that can compete with this
I think this comment sums up why Reddit is so special and amazing.
Reddit was always be /this/ awesome.
Amen.
This post is not better than most of the stuff on reddit per se. But it is a great example of what a difference one redditor can make in someone elses life.
Have an upvote.
Yeah, it was just one person sharing their experience, it symbolizes how the smallest story can help somebody out, but I'm not going to suggest it's any better than the millions of other personal stories on reddit.
And the fact that this has a submission on the front page telling it to come upvote it is entirely unfair in my opinion.
I think so too... what an amazing story.
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You've got my vote.
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