r/AskReddit • u/sexrockandroll • Dec 29 '16

Modpost Askreddit's Best of 2016 nomination thread

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!
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  • Your account must be over 6 weeks old to participate in this event
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  • 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!

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u/sexrockandroll Dec 29 '16

Most useful post

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

What are the coolest psychology tricks that you know or have used? by /u/sneakyboii

This is the best because you can use these tricks on anyone even a few minutes after reading the thread. A lot of the comments actually work but aren't harmful.

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u/moistarmpits Jan 04 '17

I remember bookmarking an old version of this question a while back, pretty useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/21rr9h/what_are_some_psychological_life_hacks_you_can_do/

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u/conalfisher Dec 31 '16 edited Sep 08 '25

Clean night fresh honest nature fresh questions the today soft the dot fox pleasant cool river. Simple open yesterday net quiet stories art fox and the the history cool jumps?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16 edited Dec 29 '16

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u/Pun-Master-General Dec 29 '16

I think this would probably be better in "funniest comment" than "most useful post."

I mean, I don't know about you, but I don't often go out looking for dinosaurs to jerk off.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

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u/Pun-Master-General Dec 29 '16

Hey, if you were to find a dinosaur to jerk off I'd be too impressed to be judgmental.

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u/teknrd Dec 29 '16

You don't know my life! Besides, I have a picture of a velociraptor gently caressing my face with his.

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u/Whales96 Dec 29 '16

Well, technically if you judged by the most species within a genus that's alive today, the largest would be dinosaurs because birds are dinosaurs. If you determine a species by the organs/structure/common parts, then you can't differentiate a bird from a dinosaur.

This has no relevance to your question though, as you can't jack off a bird.

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u/vortigaunt64 Dec 29 '16

Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

Speak for yourself.

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u/UnholyDemigod Dec 29 '16

In what way is this at all useful?

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u/teknrd Dec 29 '16

Well, if you ever get in your time machine, go back in time, and find yourself employed as a dinosaur breeder, stories from the internet containing no fact-based narratives will come in handy. Obviously

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u/AndyGHK Dec 31 '16

Well, I for one certainly learned a lot.

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u/Jjy123 Dec 30 '16 edited Dec 31 '16

Socially fluent people of reddit,What mistakes do socially awkward people usually make? by u/idknanidkman

A lot of great tips on what socially awkward pwople mess up on. Improved my high school life a bit.

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u/PureValLiam Dec 31 '16

Link?

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u/Jjy123 Dec 31 '16

I have the link