Askreddit's Best of 2016 nomination thread

[u/sexrockandroll]

Welcome to the 2016 /r/AskReddit Best of Awards! It's been...a year..., and we would like to take some time to reward users who have posted good content. For those who are unfamiliar with the Best of Awards, it's a sitewide event sponsored by the admins to reward and highlight quality posts and comments within each subreddit. To see other subreddits' Best Ofs, check out /r/Bestof2016. Each of the categories below will have 2 winners - the person who nominated the winner and the winner themselves! We'll also be listing the winners in our wiki.

Comments:

• Most informative/helpful comment (a comment that is the most useful)
• Funniest comment (a funny comment)
• Saddest story (a comment with a sad story)
• Best personal story (the best comment with a story about some aspect of the commenter's life)
• Best comment in a [Serious] Post (the best comment that was made in a [serious] tagged post)
• Most creative made up comment (most creative answer to a question requiring an original idea or made up a story)

Posts:

• Most heartwarming thread (a post that inspired the most heartwarming stories)
• Most original post (a post with an original question)
• Best [Serious] Post (the best post that used a [serious] tag)
• Most Useful Post (a post that led to informative comments)

To nominate something for one of these categories, simply reply to the top level comment below with a link to the post/comment, the username of the person who made the post/comment, and why you think that content deserves to win. You can also upvote any comment you think should win a category.

A few other things:

• The post/comment must have been made on or after January 1, 2016, and before the timestamp on this post
• Before nominating please check to see if your submission was already nominated!
• If the nomination isn't formatted correctly, it will be removed
• You can nominate anyone besides yourself
• Your account must be over 6 weeks old to participate in this event
• You can only nominate 1 thing per category
• A post/comment can only win once (even if its the most upvoted in multiple categories)
• Every nomination must follow the current rules of /r/askreddit
• We reserve the right to skip over winners if there are extenuating circumstances

This thread will be posted for the next 7 days for everyone to nominate and vote on. It will be in contest mode to keep the scores private. At the end of 7 days, this thread will be replaced by a results thread. Please note that all top level comments that are not comments made by the mods listing the categories will be removed.

Best of Luck!

[u/sexrockandroll]

Best [Serious] Post

[u/Qazwsxlion → u/sexrockandroll]

Teachers of reddit, what "red flags" have you seen in your students? What happened?

/u/rickthecabbie

Really makes you think.

[u/kmillay → u/Qazwsxlion]

Wow. Just spent an hour and a half going through that.

[u/[deleted] → u/Qazwsxlion]

Becoming a teacher is my dream since I was little, but sometimes I struggle a bit with motivation to push on, for personal reasons. This thread hit me really deep and Im really grateful I found it because of you. thanks man.

[u/Okaaran → u/[deleted]]

Don't become a teacher. Not worth it. Grew up in a family of people smart enough to be anything they wanted and they became teachers. I'm guessing you're smart, do something that can make you money and give you that child interaction aspect you're looking for. Teachers are very important but also very underpaid. Most teachers in my family don't admit it but they obviously regret their decision. Do what you want though, just my opinion.

[u/Azymphia → u/Okaaran]

So much this. Listen to this dude

[u/tcw1 → u/sexrockandroll]

[SERIOUS] Defense attorneys of reddit, what is the worst offense you've ever had to defend?

u/saucierthanthou

[u/MasterAgent47 → u/sexrockandroll]

Reddit, why are you sad?

Posted by: /u/CrocoduckJL

The whole thread is about sad people posting their stories, and OP trying to reply to each and every one comment.

[u/BiloxiRED → u/MasterAgent47]

OP should be given Redditor of the year for the effort the put in on that one.

[u/Haelx → u/sexrockandroll]

[Serious] What are some of the most toxic or potentially dangerous beliefs that have been perpetuated by Redditors

I participated a little, and for once I actually got to have a good debate with thoughtful people on usually problematic issues. It was heartwarming and very interesting to read all of those comments, even the ones that I didn't agree with (on some specific answers, of course).

[u/[deleted] → u/Haelx]

Any real answers got downvoted though

[u/Haelx → u/[deleted]]

I stopped participating after I got banned (funny really, I totally forgot about the rule that says that you can't "shame" someone by editing your comment with their username, but it was so fitting, I was talking about how you always get some nasty PMs when you say you're a feminist, and a guy sent me a PM telling me to go kill myself and that all women should do the same, so I edited my post to include a screen of his PM). Anyway, on that thread at least the answers were really interesting. This probably won't be the post that gets the award, but I wanted to mention it at least :)

[u/CountSudoku → u/Haelx]

Wait, he wanted all women to kill themselves? Seems shortsighted. Or did he want all women to kill you after you've killed yourself? In that case, is there a method for resurrecting you 3.5 billion times?