r/bestof2018 • u/sodypop • Dec 04 '18
It’s time to kick off the “Best of” Awards for 2018!
Bonan tagon, moderators!
It's that special time of the year where we ask our wonderful communities to reflect on the past year, and surface the best content and events Reddit had to offer in 2018!
Of course, as is tradition, we will provide eligible subreddits with some Reddit Coins as an incentive for your communities — see this post for details and to claim your coins!
How it Works
Keep in mind these are just guidelines, you can customize your “best of” contest to best suit your community.
We ask you, the mods, to create your own “best of” award categories within your communities. Choose categories that are appropriate for your subreddit. (See below for some excellent examples from last year.)
If you have a high number of award categories it may be helpful to make a different submission for each category and then collate them all together into one stickied 'best of 2018' post.
Make an announcement post in your subreddit inviting your community to nominate and vote on their favorite posts of 2018.
Contest mode is advised for evening the distribution of votes.
Nominate one moderator per subreddit to be the wallet holder for your Reddit Coins. That moderator should comment on this thread to apply for Coins no later than December 31st. Important: In order to for this mod to receive coins, please ensure their comment uses the format described in the other post.
Once your results are in and you have announced the winners to your community, crosspost your results thread to /r/bestof2018.
This will bring together the best content from across reddit and aggregate all of the best of threads from each community, turning it into a single starting point where people can dive into all of the cool stuff from the past year.
Need some examples?
Check out the posts from last year in /r/bestof2017 to get an idea of some of the categories different subreddits came up with. Or check out the following examples:
If you have any questions about any of this or thoughts and suggestions on running subreddit awards let us know. We can't wait to see what emerges as the best of Reddit from 2018, so go forth and bring back your best!
tldr
- Create some award categories appropriate for your subreddit.
- Post a nominations thread so your subscribers can nominate and vote on candidates for each category.
- Designate one moderator per subreddit to request Reddit Coins in this thread by December 31st.
- Cross-post your results thread to /r/bestof2018 for everyone to see!
- We'll be handing out Coins in early January!
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u/Redbiertje Dec 04 '18
In this thread it says
apply for Coins no later than December 26th
while the other says
request by December 31st 2018
Which is it?
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u/sodypop Dec 04 '18
Whoops! Fixed, thank you! Clearly it was supposed to be Dec 31th.
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u/reseph Dec 04 '18
30k coins for our subreddit, 1800c per "Gold" award = 16.6 winners.
I'm not really sure how this is suppose to work out for moderators deciding how many categories to pick. It seems to just make things more frustrating if trying to make it even.
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u/sodypop Dec 04 '18
Gold is actually 500 coins while Platinum is 1800c, but I definitely understand this is a little different than previous years. With the additional award types you can divvy up your "Best of" prizes however you like. This year you are actually receiving more awarding power this year than last since 30k coins is the equivalent of 15 creddits (we converted creddits to coins at a ratio of 1 creddit = 2000 coins).
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Dec 05 '18
The math still confuses me. I want to do this for my subreddits this year as I've done in previous years (even have a spreadsheet for the leftovers in case there are any), but if I give someone "gold" is that the same as it was before? If I just ignore silver and platinum.
Thanks for your work with this by the way. Sorry if I'm dum
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Dec 05 '18
Platinum is the same thing as the old gold, giving 1 month of premium; gold costs a fourth of what it costed before and gives only 1 week of premium.
If you want to do the same thing as before you should give out platinum to all winners!
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u/Stalked_Like_Corn Dec 13 '18
Could this have been a more convaluted system if you guys tried? The past years, it was only me that was interested in actually doing this for the bigger subs I mod. I think I'm just going to say "no thanks" and see if someone else wants to muck with this system.
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u/NewClayburn Dec 13 '18
Can we use the leftover coins outside of the contest? Like, could we save the .6 and give out some silvers throughout 2019?
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u/sodypop Dec 14 '18
Sure, feel free to use any leftover coins to award exemplary posts or behavior in your community.
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u/_Rowdy Jan 11 '19
Whats the best way to give out more than a Platinum worth of coins? Can you give custom amounts somehow?
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u/Redbiertje Dec 04 '18
Is there a way to do a Best of 2018 contest after the end of the year? I see that we have to apply for Coins before the end of the year, and we have to already give a link to the nomination thread. That would make it impossible to post the nomination thread at the start of January.
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u/sodypop Dec 04 '18
Sure, that's fine to do. As long as you get it up before we start issuing Coins for moderators we should be able to get you in. We'll be giving out the Coins in early January.
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u/JosVermeulen Dec 13 '18
So do we apply before the 31st without a post, or do we make a post early January and link that?
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u/clinodev Dec 17 '18
This would have been nice to see answered, u/sodypop. Should we apply before the 31st without a post, and edit later, or do we make a post early January and link that?
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u/buzznights Dec 05 '18
r/mma will be doing that too. There's always fights on Dec 31st. Thank you for the leeway.
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u/matt01ss Dec 04 '18
MFW my Best Of's don't make it into the 'examples' section anymore ;_;
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u/JaZoray Dec 12 '18
can i unsubscribe from getting big notifications for things like this forever?
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u/sodypop Dec 12 '18
If you click the X in the corner you won't see the banner for this particular announcement again.
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u/JaZoray Dec 13 '18
i did that yesterday and saw it again today
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Dec 14 '18
Then do it again today
pssh what do you expect? For that kind of stuff to work? It's reddit dude
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u/rocketpastsix Dec 05 '18
Can worst redesign of Reddit be awarded?
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u/l_MAKE_SHIT_UP Dec 13 '18
I like how there's no answers to any questions that question what the admins do wrong but they answer every other one almost immediately.
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u/Nessie Dec 14 '18
As if we'd be able to find out where to vote...
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u/IpMedia Dec 14 '18
A bit random and unrelated but: Imagine if a time traveler from the 90s saw that comment.
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u/pure_nitro Dec 04 '18
Unless admins wants to ban you, because one of the posts in your bestof is a 6 month old gif of a professional porn shoot, which somehow gets you, as the mod, suspended without warning or justification over something that never broke a single rule.
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u/badon_ Dec 15 '18
I don't have subreddits with that kind of content, but now I'm worried. Are there other landmines I should be aware of?
Happy cake day!
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u/HeyKKK Dec 20 '18
Not porn but some get off on r/watchpeopledie and one of the mods just the other day told someone in a related sub to kill himself https://imgur.com/a/0sOVJcb
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u/Oi-FatBeard Dec 21 '18
Heh, your profile history ain't much better chief.
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u/HeyKKK Dec 23 '18
Hey scout, I ain't no r/reddit mod and do not mod at r/watchpeopledie having never suggested someone kill themselves as this mod did
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u/visvya Dec 10 '18
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What happens to "left over" gold? My sub r/1200isplenty has 230k subs, so we qualify for 30k coins. If we award Platinum to 5 categories, that is 21k left over.
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We were planning to run a "New Years Resolution" challenge in January-February; can we use leftover gold as rewards at that time?
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Our sub has a lot of spin-offs. Can one of our categories be "best post in a spin-off sub"?
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u/delta_baryon Dec 12 '18
Hi Sodypop,
I'm in the process of talking to the other mods of r/MensLib about this. I have two questions, if you don't mind:
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Our subreddit is frequently the target of brigades. Is there something we can do to make sure the votes are actually coming from r/MensLib subscribers?
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Would a similar giveaway be possible other times of year? We've internally discussed holding a special event for Black History Month, for example.
Thanks
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u/RiseoftheTrumpwaffen Dec 15 '18
Can worst subreddit be a choice? If so I nominate the_donald
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u/DatsunsWereCool Dec 18 '18
I like how every one who complains about this sub never blocks it. If you don't like it, stay out of it and block it. You guys embarrass yourselves when you make comments like this, you just don't know it I guess.
I've never seen one post from that sub . . . .not one.
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u/RiseoftheTrumpwaffen Dec 18 '18
I voiced no complaints about the existence or function of this sub. I simply offered a mostly facetious question. Sorry to offend you
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u/DatsunsWereCool Dec 24 '18
I voiced no complaints about ........ this sub.
You most definitely did. I'm not offended. I'm annoyed by the silliness of the little redditors putting their own feet in their mouth because I know what I said in my parent comment was very correct.
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u/RiseoftheTrumpwaffen Dec 24 '18
Mkay snowflake. Do whatever you want. Cling those ankles tight and circle the wagons while you ban me or whatever. I’m literally only replying to notifications at this point.
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u/NewClayburn Dec 12 '18
Porn has no business being on the Internet.
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u/thunderclapMike Dec 17 '18
neither does politics and censorship, but there ARE here so we must deal with it.
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Dec 13 '18
My sub won't be participating in the reddit best of either. (but for different reasons) I'm thinking about doing my own version where I donate my own money to a charity of the winners choice. ($15 for First place, $10 for Second, $5 for Third )
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u/badon_ Dec 15 '18
I don't have subreddits with that kind of content, but now I'm worried. Are there other landmines I should be aware of?
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u/-ksguy- Dec 04 '18
FYI, the link to the results thread for r/ChangeMyView actually links to the TIFU 2016 thread.
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u/mrekted Dec 12 '18
Can we claim the coins, then just award them to the posts in our various categories that received the most up votes in 2018? Do we have to have a community vote?
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u/sodypop Dec 12 '18
Sure, you can run your contest that way! I would just make it clear in your post how the winners will be selected so your community is aware.
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u/Justice_Fighter Dec 19 '18
My subreddit is not very big and while it does qualify for 20k coins, I don't think having 11 awards is justified. Would it be possible to request fewer coins somehow?
Or, alternatively, can half coins be kept until and used for next year's awards?
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u/sodypop Dec 19 '18
No worries. If you end up with extra coins at the end you can feel free to use the remainder to give out awards to people within your community.
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u/MajorParadox Dec 04 '18
Best of Time! The best time of the year!
Hey, will have the ability to give multiple awards by then? Currently we can only award a comment or post once and we can't award a user directly. This makes it really hard to give anyone more than one.
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u/sodypop Dec 04 '18
As you wish! We actually just recently added back the ability to give Premium directly to users. You can find this on the profiles in the redesign by clicking "more options" then the "give premium" button.
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u/DatsunsWereCool Dec 18 '18
You want the results posted in December, but we can't give out the gold until January. Shouldn't we be getting the gold before we post who wins? I'd like to give the gold out immediately when the winner is decided.
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u/sodypop Dec 18 '18
The results can come after, but most subreddits run a nomination thread in their community to allow their users to suggest their favorite posts and/or comments throughout the year. A link to the nomination thread would be adequate here. Otherwise, if you don't think you'll have a nomination or any other bestof post up before the 31st, if you can get it in within the first week of January we should still be able to help with coins. Earlier the better though, we'll lock the thread where you can request coins before we distribute them.
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Jan 15 '19
u/sodypop : Should I be expecting coins soon? Our contest is finished today, and am getting nervous as to how to gild the winners as I may have made too many categories!
My post in the submission thread used the actual brackets so it didn't look like the others, but here it is edited correctly: https://old.reddit.com/r/bestof2018/comments/a335e1/moderators_request_your_coins/ecxocls/
And here is the Best-Of thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/comments/aa7v2n/welcome_to_the_bestof_2018_nomination_and_voting/
If this is the wrong place to ask, I apologize- just panicking about the coins!
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u/sodypop Jan 15 '19
Ooof, it looks like something went wrong. I went ahead and issued you the coins so you should be good to go now. Thanks for reaching out!
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u/djb2spirit Dec 05 '18
At r/FireEmblemHeroes we're trying to tie this event into the two year anniversary of the sub on the 18th of January. In order to drag this out a bit and include content towards the end of December, right now we're looking at having a nomination post separate from the voting post.
Accordingly, our preliminary timeline right now is the nomination post to go up either Dec 28th or the 29th, the voting post to go up on Jan 4th, and the winners announcement to go up on our 2 year anniversary.
Are there any issues we may have securing the coins for our event or anywhere else? To my understanding so long as we have the Nominations thread up by the 31st we should be good correct? This may be pretty straightforward, but I'm just trying to make sure we have all our facts and understand everything before we commit a huge blunder and ruin our event. Apologies if I missed the answer to this somewhere else.
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u/TotesMessenger Dec 04 '18 edited Dec 13 '18
I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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[r/denmark] It’s time to kick off the “Best of” Reddit Awards for 2018!
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[r/fantasy] Is /r/Fantasy not participating in the "Best of" Awards this year?
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[r/futurama] r/Futurama should do a "Best of" awards and call it "Best of 3018"
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[r/modnews] It’s time to kick off the “Best of” Awards for 2018!
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If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / ^Contact)
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u/theusualbanter Dec 08 '18
If one of the best posts was made by a mod, is he still eligible to win the coins?
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u/vincoug Dec 16 '18
Make an announcement post in your subreddit inviting your community to nominate and vote on their favorite posts of 2018.
Contest mode is advised for evening the distribution of votes.
Contest mode only works in classic reddit. The redesign does not have a contest mode.
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u/DatsunsWereCool Dec 18 '18 edited Dec 18 '18
Contest mode is pointless anyway. Almost no one participates in these things. Contest mode complicates it. The process should be kept as simple as possible to try to get more participation from users. A user also wants to see current nominated submissions so they can also nominate the same submission or user. Just come up with two simple categories, like Best Post and Best User, and tell people to write that in the comments.
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u/Mister1553 Dec 05 '18
Why is there no most down voted comments and posts section of this best of, seems like EA would win both lol.
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u/FBIGETOUTNOW Jan 04 '19
What is the exact deadline for crossposting the results?
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u/sodypop Jan 04 '19
Try to get it in today if you haven't yet. We'll likely issue the coins next week.
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u/NewClayburn Dec 12 '18
Are we guaranteed coins? If we start the contest and say "Winners get coins..." but don't end up qualifying for coins, then is everyone disappointed?
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u/CrazyChicken007 Dec 13 '18
What happens if we don't have enough categories/participants to give out all the coins. What do we do with the leftover coins? Can we save them for future contests on the sub?
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u/vxx Jan 04 '19
Hey, I kept the nominations up until the end of the year and users are now voting.
When will we receive the coins? I would like to give the prizes out with the announcement of the winners in about 7 days.
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u/EatLiftLifeRepeat Jan 06 '19
Do I wait for coins to be assigned first before announcing the results?
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u/sodypop Dec 06 '18
Heya! If you are trying to request creddits, please comment in this thread using the proper format!
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2018/comments/a335e1/moderators_request_your_coins/
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u/sodypop Dec 06 '18
Heya! If you are trying to request creddits, please comment in this thread using the proper format!
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2018/comments/a335e1/moderators_request_your_coins/
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u/NewClayburn Dec 12 '18
When we "give" the coins, are we just giving coins or are we giving actual Gold, Silver, Premium? And if the latter, can we give multiples to the same users? For example, can "first place" get two Premiums?
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u/NewClayburn Dec 12 '18
Are we able to have "best of" awards that aren't tied to a specific 2018 post/comment, but rather meant as a kind of "best user" for their overall participation? Somewhat related, are comments allowed as a "best of" consideration? Or are we only judging submissions to the subreddit?
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u/AmericanMuskrat Dec 14 '18
I'm trying to rouse the moderators of my favorite sub, r/cripplingalcoholism but I don't know if it will work, they have abandoned us. Any way a mere user can run one of these?
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u/GarlicoinAccount Dec 28 '18
Can I receive the coins on an alt? Because I've been a very active in my sub and as far as I know you can't gild your own posts, it'd be nice if I could gild them that way if any of them wins
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u/zzpza Jan 11 '19 edited Jan 11 '19
I'm trying to allocate the prizes as premium, but one of the winner's doesn't have a redesigned profile page. When I go to www.reddit.com/user/"username" it renders as the old profile page. When I force the issue using new.reddit.com/user/"username" it renders as the beta(?) profile page.
Is there a way to give a user premium without going to their profile page?
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u/jeppe96 Jan 14 '19
So, how do I go about gilding the users who won our "Best of 2018"?
Has the option to gild a user been removed, so I can only gild posts or comments now?
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u/TheSquidFromSpace Dec 12 '18
Does this have to be a retrospective of 2018? Or can it be current, as in 'post your best____' and people vote?
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u/Herbert_W Dec 12 '18
r/nerf already runs a somewhat similar competition, except that we give awards for the best blaster builds, not posts, and the awards usually consist of a custom flair and/or products rather than anything coin-related.
Could we combine these? Could we, for example, request coins and then use them for awards in our current blaster-building competition, or do these coins have to be used as awards for the best posts specifically?
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u/zbf Dec 12 '18
How do i decide on the contestants, and then find out who's the winner, would it be option with the most number of upvotes?
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u/fatbigdick Dec 13 '18
Are there any language restrictions? Can I make a contest to a portuguese speaking sub?
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Dec 13 '18
more like vote those rare moderators who just do normal things instead of banning contributing members like r/history and doing nothing but changing banners on the top and make unnecessary megathreads r/MemoryDefrag or r/anime
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u/Cytrynowy Dec 13 '18
Can the link to this thread actually disappear from my home reddit page when I close it? I have a one-person subreddit for personal reasons, and as the only one there I'm obviously a mod. I don't mod any other subreddits.
I.
Don't.
Care.
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u/Galarzaa Dec 13 '18
As mods, can we give the coins to the winners or do we have to award them with Platinum/Gold/Silver awards?
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u/Pornsage14 Dec 14 '18
Over at r/PornStarletHQ we're having our 2nd Annual Starlet Awards. We put together a ton of the best scenes and performances for our subscribers to vote on. Check it out!
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u/ibid-11962 Dec 14 '18
Do these have to go to posts, or are comments also eligible? Can a restricted subreddit still enter?
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u/BuckRowdy Dec 15 '18
Is there a limit on how many subs for which you can make a request? I applied for 4 of them.
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u/DrParadoxically Dec 15 '18 edited Dec 15 '18
I haven't been a mod for very long, but there's a thing we have over in academia which applies here nicely in the form of accolades and reward:
The mods you never hear from, the ones that simply do their job, the ones that don't even try to hold hands they just sort it out objectively and impartially and in a manner and method that none of the involved parties believes themselves belittled or exposed.
For a teacher, a professor, a mentor, the saying goes, "A teacher is one who makes themselves progressively unnecessary." -Abraham Lincoln -Michael Scott
Here, I'd argue that a moderator, a mediator, a silent and objective persuasion that doesn't force waves to crash, but rather, ensures the tide rolls in and out accordingly without much muss or fuss -- you see, this right here, this is mettle deserving of merit, and it belongs to people who wouldn't dare complain about never being rewarded for their vigilance, their valiance.
This is why I believe it's a worthwhile endeavor and a worthy reward to create, consider, call to vote, and grant accordingly.
If this is taken up by others, please consider that I'd like for this award to be called the "Batman With Empty Bag Of Fucks" award.
Now if you'll excuse me, scotch. Any aspect of this comment that alludes common sense, scotch.
Good evenin', then.
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u/badon_ Dec 15 '18
Does this work somehow if nearly all the posts are by me? I think maybe it's better to wait until next year when more people are posting? Or, maybe I can do it for comments also? The most popular post in r/GreatFilter is actually a copy-paste of u/daeomec's sci-fi short story:
Is it possible to award the author of the short story instead of the person that actually pasted it (me)?
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u/Alexander-H Dec 15 '18
Can you guys please stop placing the advert for whatever initiative this is on the top of my feed, please? I've already dismissed it multiple times and I have no cookie issues on any other websites.
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u/indianfootballfans Dec 16 '18
You get all votes when you say everything negative..no one looks for positive a
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u/HonestlyKidding Dec 17 '18
So I think this would be fun to do but given the highly polarizing nature of the sub I help mod (r/AskTrumpSupporters) it might require a bit of creativity to make sure the vote is, well, legitimate. Any advice on what constitutes a legitimate poll within this context? Any examples from similarly polarized communities that might be good for us to examine?
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u/AnonimooseUser Dec 19 '18
Are award categories a must? If we have a small subreddit where categories wouldn't be as appriopiate, can we have the competition without any categories (just as general "best of") and still be eligible for the coins?
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u/dsprox Dec 12 '18
LOL this is some real lame pay to play stupidity right here.
You're not getting a cent from me until you force paid subscription in order to use this site.
Until then, you can profit off the stupid ass worthless ads like every other website that doesn't do paid subscription for use of the site.
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u/Delta7x Dec 14 '18
What are you on about?
Reddit admins are giving people coins to mods if they're participating in bestof2018. The coins are then awarded to users who win in whatever category.
Nobody is paying for anything for this.
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u/PretendKangaroo Jan 01 '19
You won't get banned for unpopular opinion being downvoted is not the same thing. I see unpopular opinions on there all the time sort by controversial.
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u/ShaneH7646 Dec 04 '18
So, gold has changed since last year so here's a little breakdown for those out of the loop
To break it down further, for every 10,000 coins you can get 100 Silver OR 20 Gold OR 5.5 Platinum (You can ofcourse mix and match though)