Submit your nominees for Commenter 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.
Posted Jan 4, 2010, 6:29 PM UTC · edited
I would like to nominate redGPz for all the work she does helping people in /r/SuicideWatch/
If I could I would nominate all the active posters there, they are saving lives every day.
Edit: Changed he to she, sorry!
Based on feedback, we've actually created a whole moderator of the year category.
There are hundreds of subreddits, what's your criteria?
It's up to you, the community.
Ah, ok. The list I created in the thread has the larger ones in it, plus a few popular ones.
User-submitted content with no criteria except for votes coming from users in the community?
It'll never work.
What are your criteria?
Honestly BritishEnglishPolice, you should know better.
Or, what is your criterion.
red is actually a she.
I'd gladly vote for her.
I'm interested in the idea that karmanaut is the top comment, but this one is deemed the best. They both make sense, as karmanaut is quite popular and redGPz seems to have earned his/her "best" status in a very honorable way.
I'm not sure how "best" is determined for sorting, but I'm almost never disappointed by it.
EDIT: Changed comment for gender neutrality.
Top is raw vote-power (up minus down), best is some sort of algorithm that values upvotes but considers the ratio of up to down.
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I also nominate her redGPz is incredible!!!
I'm constantly humbled by her tireless efforts there.
She even offered helped me through a tough situation, and I wasn't even in r/SuicideWatch. <3
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karmanaut.
He's gained a record 115,949 comment karma in just nine months, and been extremely funny and a really nice guy. He has dozens of imitatory novelty accounts. I'm shocked he hasn't been mentioned yet.
You've now identified yourself as the only person on Reddit not part of the collective that is Karmanaut.
The original "karmanaut collective" comment has been deleted :-/
That's one of my least favourite things about Reddit. Good old posts can be deleted, and I really don't have the will to try any of the hacks to see them. Sometimes I'm dying to know what has been downvoted into oblivion…
But obviously the collective deemed it too dangerous to leave that post out in the open where just anyone could see it and learn the secret of Reddit.
I have almost exactly 10% of his karma.
Edit: lol, i'm an idiot.
Sure, if you consider almost exactly 10% to be equal to approximately 1.3%.
EDIT: At least you didn't fix your comment. Too many people are too eager to alter the past. Take pride in your momentary brain fart. If I'm going to be fallible, let it be over something inconsequential.
He hasn't been mentioned because he's been relatively vacant from reddit since the early fall.
I had a feeling that would be the case. :-(
Still around, actually!
I miss the trivia channel.
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karmanaut! Yay!
I miss it, too. :-(
Having actually met the guy(s) I second this motion!
While I'm not saying I disagree with you, I don't think that karma should play much of a factor, if any.
True. But in this case, I think it's an excellent metric (although, I suppose, an argumentum ad populum of sorts) of how prolific he's been without sacrificing quality, which is an astounding achievement.
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You know me in real life? I just looked at the pictures of yourself from an earlier comment, and I don't think we know each other
Ugh, it makes me sad that karmanaut is below bozarking. This whole bozarking thing is a relatively new phenomenon, wheras karmanaut made his historic karmagrabbing in less than 9 months in 2009. Definitely deserves commenter of the year.
Y'know, I friended a few of the "top commenters" here on reddit a while back, so their posts would stand out when I was scanning through the comments. They tended to be people who contributed really quality stuff. Of all of the people that I've friended, karmanaut is one of the few that I haven't deleted or considered deleting. I still thoroughly enjoy his comments.
This is a really long way of saying, I agree! Have an upvote!
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flossdaily
Boo! That guy sucks! I heard he kicks babies.
I hear the babies enjoy it.
You don't know his side of the story. Those babies were making fun of him
Link. Only 17 days old. The kid has a bright future ahead of him.
Maybe of 2010. Too recent to be "best of 2009" in my opinion. His highest ranked comment was from 2010 after all.
Agreed. Maybe 2010, though I doubt it. Too many other people have done great things elsewhere.
YES!
This.
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lmao WOW.. I couldn't care less that I'm being downvoted, but lmao, I was agreeing with the guy.. go into my history, you will see why. Enjoy yourself reddit, downvote me into oblivion.
kleinbl00
Naah, that dude's a dick.
I love kleinbl00, but the freakout rage quit in AskReddit where he deleted everything was kind of a turn-off. Reddit isn't serious business.
It was actually because I was being stalked outside of Reddit about the time some jackass off r/skeptic was threatening my wife's life, but thanks for your sage wisdom.
That kinda blows man... why was he/she harassing you?
more than 3 different people. The threats on r/skeptic were because someone suggested all naturopaths and homeopaths should die. When I chipped in that my wife was one and that dogmatic acceptance of the status quo hardly qualifies as skepticism, he responded with "well we gotta start somewhere, your wife sounds as good a candidate as any" or some such (comments were since reported and deleted).
Then I got two different emails (to my personal accounts - off Reddit), from two different gmail accounts, saying "are you kleinbl00?" and nothing else. Later that same day (this is about a 3-day period), some jackass decided to out me to all of Reddit. That comment and account has also since been deleted.
And really. I'm just a dude. Nobody famous. Nobody worthy of the Mark David Chapman routine. But when you see shit like 500-upvote threads speculating on who I am, including people who go through the trouble of going back through six months of commentary to look for clues, you start to recognize that things that look benign... aren't, necessarily.
And for four months, kleinbl00 wasn't posting. But that doesn't mean the face behind him wasn't. I've got another 9 identities that I rotate through and use rarely; I decided to see if I could play "the reddit game" for maximum points. And lo and behold, with a little effort you can gain 1000 comment karma in a day... and people recognize you.
Creepy way to discover you have a voice... and an audience.
So. That's why I bailed on Reddit. Too many creepy stalkery things happening (and I was just getting married - and converting my house to a rental - and moving said wife down to my shithole neighborhood in Los Angeles where drivebys are a monthly occurrence). When I discovered I was a mod on AskReddit by turning green (no one had told me before - still don't know how that happened) and suddenly I'm getting five or six downvotes every time I open my mouth - and crazy fuckers in r/skeptic think the Final Solution includes my loved ones - and crazy mutherfuckers decide that my privacy has no value -
...well, you'd likely freak out, too.
TL;DR: Please do not nominate me for commenter of the year, it's the last thing I need.
I wasn't even aware of that, what happened? Why'd he quit?
I really hoped that "I wasn't even aware of that" was a reference to "Reddit isn't serious business."
People were downmodding him because he was a moderator and it was before they could choose to add the [M] to their posts.
There was a little more to it, people were stalking him irl.
He didn't quit, but he deleted all his old posts and has been a bit more reticent posting. People were idolizing him a bit much, and it resulted in a backlash where others were doubting him and flaming him just because he was typically well-received; they thought that no one could have lived the life he has lived.
Also, what bechus said.
True, I friended this guy a long time ago for some random comment, and his posts and submissions are quality.
same here.
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Ditto. The guy is like a walking encyclopedia. With a direct, logical, straight forward style. On top of that, he often has the most practical life advice. He strikes me as someone who has really learnt and not just passed through life like a duck dragged by the strong current.
On a more personal level, he also replied to me with the single most influential piece of internet advice I've ever received. I'm sure it was nothing special for him, but it made a world of difference to me. I don't care if he's a jerk irl, he does an awesome job here.
But he's not gonna win, because he's not cool enough. And I am sure he doesn't care about that. Which makes him probably truly cool.
Anyway, I didn't mean to make this sound like fangirl mail. I just wanted to explain my support upvote and regret there aren't more like him these days on reddit.
I think I remember. I'm glad I could help. =)
absolutely. he doesn't get the karma score of other users because he doesn't karma-whore, but his comments are informative, accurate, on-topic, and entertaining. everything we should all strive to be.
I know he's not going to win because he wasn't here for long and there are other powerhitters, namely karmanaut, but my vote goes to Necrophiliac.
He started when karmanaut did, and maybe he's still around in an alt account, but he was witty and informative.
Really, he/she was a great redditor, and those who were here while Necrophiliac was still with us, may he rest with a boner, know this.
He had been around before under different accounts, but yes, he was extremely funny, and is one of the all-time greats, alongside 911was_an_inside_job and Captain-Obvious.
It was the combination of insightful, funny comments mixed in with the blatant "I fuck dead people" comments that did it for me.
You, sir, are no captain-obvious.
KARMANAUT!? That dude is a tool. All he posted for like 2 weeks were posts about how people shouldn't down vote him because they didn't like him. So naturally I down voted all of his submissions.
Silly Rabbit. Tricks are for kids.
Jeffler
(worth a try)
I was going to do this, but decided to not be a tool.
Tool.
This is the same guy who used to go around reminding everyone in every single comment that he was a Digg Power User™. So, yes -- tool.
Ah yes, my idiocy phase. Thanks for bringing that up.
It's fun to remind people of their idiot phases.
Weren't you also a NamePros member?
I was going to nominate Jeffler as well
I was actually going to nominate Jeffler also, way not to be a tool. Tool.
Mine is bigger than yours.
i always liked how Jeffler was willing to "go there" when others were too timid. i'd like to submit this comment as evidence:
http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2009/comments/algx1/nominate_commenter_of_the_year/c0i78di
happybadger
Creative, entertaining, and informative. A good choice.
I went back to look for this after seeing my name in the finalists. Thank you for the nomination <3
subtextual. If I'm not mistaken, she's a neuropsychologist who wades into arguments about psychology and sets the record straight.
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Am I the only one who doesn't know these people off the top of my head?
No your just a user for 4 months. Most of these I remember from the spring and summer.
It honestly seems that there was something special going on earlier this year. I feel like things have changed recently, and I'm not certain that it is just me.
I agree. The awesome redditors that have sprung up in the past four days are remarkable ;)
kickme444- The secret santa was amazing and he organized it so well.
EDIT disregard my post, vote for him here
Sure, but for best commenter?
I think he's more of a commenter than a submitter, and he needed to be in the bestof2009 at least.
Looks like he's going to win Community of 2009 for the Secret Santa project.
Damn, guess you're right, posted under wrong subreddit
Well, I think that Community (which he's winning) is probably the best option for him.
as awesome as secret santa was, best commenter should be about a user's comments rather than a users actions.
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the30thelement because, well, you know.
Etab
Son, I am disappoint.
Oh dear me.
I'd nominate insomniaclyric. Although he's not a household name (read: not karmanaut), he posts some really great thought-provoking comments, and is an all-around nice guy.
still some haters lurking around :P
Yup. Internet drama is super serious business you know?
Saydrah isn't getting any love either, so I guess what comes around goes around?
These Reddit spats always have me feeling unhappy though, this is supposed to be my happy place :/
WarToad, Reddit's own unsung hero, as per pzycho's reasoning found here.
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.
As well, he has loads of comment karma while being only a member of the 1 year club. So Reddit already organically thinks he writes great comments. Plus the whole "1 year" thing fits great with a "Commenter of the Year" award.
A good quality commenter that's completely underrated.
TLDRHaiku defiantly gets my vote for this. Classic every time.
Defiantly?
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bozarking
I disagree. Bozarking is like a novelty account. You don't look to him for good comments on any number of subjects. All people want from bozarking is a fucked-up, outlandish story. His popular will go quickly, just like any other novelty account. I think the fact that he just happens to be popular at the moment is a stupid reason to give him commenter of the year.
Edit: Someone agrees with me. Bozarking for novelty account of the year!
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
If the Nobel dudes can do it, we can do it to!
FTFY
its tew sillybilly.
Actually, the majority of his comments are relatively normal - it's just the long detailed ones that gain attention.
Not from looking at his user profile.
Lately he's been really going for it because of all the attention, but zeabrid is right. Look back to several weeks ago.
Exactly. I expected a nomination for flossdaily too, and there is one already. It's just a recent phenomena.
Are you suggesting I'm a novelty account? I've only been here 17 days, but I've commented on every type of submission- from the humorous, to political, to scientific, etc.
Very few of my comments have been stories- it's just that they have been well-received.
I'm a little offended, because it seems like you are accusing me of being shallow just because I spin a good yarn occassionally.
Maybe I misunderstood what you were claiming publicly, but I thought you were karmanaut?
Or
I can't agree more. I had never even heard of him until seeing the nomination. As a denizen of the "more serious" subreddits, I'd much rather see it go to a well-rounded commenter.
Teehee!
This guy is always operating at like 6-10 Cuils from reality.
Every time I read one of bozarking's comments I have this song playing in my head.
Definitely. I can't think of any other commenter who deserves it more ... he might win comment of the year as well, but who knows.
The Jelly comment could easily be comment of the year.
You can search his name here to see his best comments.
Downvoted. Go vote for your favorite bozarking in "Comment of the Year". Commenter of the year is clearly Karmanaut
Disagreeing with someone's opinion doesn't invalidate it. Enjoy your downvotes, good sir.
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It doesn't say to downvote, just to upvote the ones that you think should get this award.