[gwnn]

I want to nominate the opening post along with every follow-up by the OP here for all categories: http://www.bridgebas...post__p__798973

[Antrax]

I miss daveharty

[kuhchung]

I am glad this thread exists. I wish to admire the linked thread, but I don't want to pollute it with my usual crap posting

[diana_eva]

I pinned this thread. Won't be the same without daveharty probably, but we can try

[mgoetze]

I nominate myself for Poster of the Year. Do I win by default?

[Phil]

WTF happened to DaveHarty?

[helene_t]

I think PhilKing hasn't been POTY before so it's about time.

For thread of the year, I nominate the discussion about bird and anthias opening leads.

Edit: thanks mbodell for clarifying

iandayre for newcomer of the year

[Mbodell]

 helene_t, on 2015-January-13, 15:49, said:

For thread of the year, I nominate the discussion about Bird/Anthias' opening leads: http://www.bridgebas...t-being-dealer/

I think you have the wrong thread. At least the linked thread is not about Bird/Anthias so much about Pavlicek analysis (and stats related to that).

[Zelandakh]

PK, Helene and Rik (Trinidad) seem obvious contenders this year along with the usual suspects (Justin, Andy, Mike). What were the other categpries - PotY, TotY and Best Newcomer?

[PhantomSac]

Thanks zel but I think you listed me by reputation alone... I did not post much in 2014 and when I did it was not particularly good. You are way more worthy of a nomination than me. My vote is for PhilKing who always kills it.

[PhantomSac]

Also it seems like Jinksy is the main person who keeps posting topics and interesting stuff for people to debate. They definitely keep this forum going and IMO have a good attitude for learning and dealing with criticism.

[diana_eva]

 Zelandakh, on 2015-January-14, 03:59, said:

What were the other categpries - PotY, TotY and Best Newcomer?

 daveharty, on 2013-January-14, 07:56, said:

The categories are:

Poster of the Year
Newcomer of the Year
Thread of the Year
Individual Post of the Year
"Bridge in the Real World" Award
Most Helpful Poster for N/B Players

[diana_eva]

rogerclee for Bridge in the Real World Award
PhilKing for Poster of the Year
I also like Jinksy's contributions, for the reasons mentioned by phantomsac. Not sure what category to vote for him in

[Zelandakh]

 PhantomSac, on 2015-January-14, 14:40, said:

Thanks zel but I think you listed me by reputation alone... I did not post much in 2014 and when I did it was not particularly good. You are way more worthy of a nomination than me. My vote is for PhilKing who always kills it.

Your volume has definitely been down but over the course of the year you are, across your various accounts, still in the top 5 or so for upvotes, which indicates to the quality of those posts. I do not think volume alone is a good basis for Poster of the Year, as can be seen with previous nominations for contributors like Frances who produce a small amount of very high quality content.

[Zelandakh]

Assuming that posters that joined in the second half of 2013 would be eligible, some reasonable candidates for NotY might be Endymion77, Shugart23 and Lorne50. Endymion in particular has accrued a reputation of over 50 in under 18 months, which is quite a respectable achievement now the "automatic upvotes" have stopped.

As an aside, how is it possible for an account created in 2014 to have a reputation of -1?

[Antrax]

Admins can still downvote, so my guess is someone's finger slipped without them noticing.

[diana_eva]

Unpinning this, with sincere regrets that we don't have closure yet again. I'll start a new thread for 2015 Posty Awards.

Time for the regular reminder that I miss daveharty

[Zelandakh]

Could you not take over and put up the relevant polls Diana?

[diana_eva]

 Zelandakh, on 2015-February-17, 04:51, said:

Could you not take over and put up the relevant polls Diana?

I wanted to but there are hardly any nominations. Maybe I should anyway.

[helene_t]

Well we could do a POTY vote but it is TOTY that is the most interesting one IMO and we have only two candidates for that so far. Could we get one or two more?