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/ZugNachPankow Dec 11 '18
I'm sad that nobody paid attention to the greeting in Esperanto.
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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/JaZoray Dec 12 '18
can i unsubscribe from getting big notifications for things like this forever?
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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)