I nominate everyone for cutest poster including myself
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HELL yeah
This is true actually
I, once again, nominate myself for this prestigious award just so I can be the only two times Hexie nominated actor in Hollywood.
I know everyone is having fun here but I personally find this whole thing tres icky. A literal popularity contest?
Maybe someone would like to explain to me how this won't lead to problems like resentment, big egos, anxiety, performance pressure, tensions, jealousies, celebrity, hurt feelings, deference etc. There are just so many pre-existing issues individually and relationally something like this could exacerbate, or even create. For all involved: who do or do not nominate/comment/vote/win.
I feel bad posting this because I guess that it will be read as maybe I don't like the people who are nominated, that I wish to be nominated etc. Anticipate any criticism, no matter the content, will initially be suspected of pettiness. Or that I am belittling the genuine affection being solicited and shared here. Don't think that's just my own idiosyncratic anxieties. The structure is created in such a way as to disincentivize ~~being the fun police~~ criticism. That makes me really uneasy too.
The idea of recognizing people who make contributions is perfectly sound. I am just not sure this is a good way. Making an institution (even as a quote/unquote "bit") of the idea that this is a place where some people are officially popular is a very weird choice for a left/communist community.
The best defense of this I can anticipate is that it'll come and go and nobody'll remember in a week. And besides it's probably a slow time for the site so fewer people than usual will even see it.
Hmm... If everyone is already emotionally mature, then a contest like this can't really have a harmful effect, right? So wouldn't the questions then be, 1) what is our "threat model" for users being emotionally immature; and 2) what exactly is the relationship between emotional immaturity and the ability to win contests or be "officially popular"?
'Cause on the one hand, if you win family game night five times in a row and start going "mirror mirror on the wall" about it, would you say that that's the fault of family game night having winners, or is it there an extraneous root cause of that behavior that needs to be addressed instead?
Then on the other hand, Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten appearing in loads of KLM promotional material is believed to have contributed to his mental state as his plane barreled down the Los Rodeos runway that fateful day in 1977, and this led to a change in airline culture towards celebrity pilots and the effective end of actual pilots being used in airlines' advertising... Or so I swear I once heard, at least.
...I don't really know where I'm going with this. Family game night and the deadliest aviation disaster in history really have little in common, and neither have much in common with a popularity contest on an obscure communist link aggregation site.
In any case what I can say is that it's probably not the end of the world: I've seen contests like this in other online communities over the years and it's never caused any sort of trouble in practice that I've seen.
However it not causing trouble in practice, so far, that I've seen, doesn't necessarily mean that it actually is completely benign.
I'd like to nominate this moment where I made an offhand mention of a lib who had their own subreddit for monitoring us and hadn't been active in years, then received a reply from said lib in mere minutes, as the wildest moment of the year. Use the "view moderation history" button to see their comments since they were all removed.
I nominate myself @OgdenTO@hexbear.net for best (worst) Beanis poster, the only category so good it wasn't even mentioned in the main Hexie lineup.
I nominate @Infamousblt@hexbear.net for best BLT recipe (Beanis, Lib-smashing, chapoTraphouse)
I nominate @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net for best all around poster this year
Nominating @REgon@hexbear.net for most likely to get called a tankie. They had a way to just keep annoying libs and be very thorough at arguing through all the ways in which they were wrong. They are great at doing the exact kind of thing that gets libs to call you a tankie, cornering them and showing them they're confidently incorrect.
I nominate myself for the award of most forgettable poster @Gorb@hexbear.net
I remember you though so this is denied
Wow! I'm so happy. I want to make a speech to thank all the people that made this possible
Thanks me for being there for me when me. Thank you also to me for me when me and most importantly me
dang I should have badposted more
Id like to nominate gay tucker carlson for resuming our past friendship and being nice to me in DMs about personal stuff when they saw id come back to the site after not talking for a long time, also for the best impression of tucker carlson if he was gay. didn't want to @ her bcs it felt awkward.
Ngl im slightly tipsy with friends + family rn posting from the toilet, and the main reason i didnt at them was actually bcss i couldn't work out how to withmy dumb dumb tipsy brain