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Bit idea: The 2nd Annual 2024 Hexie awards!

That's right folks the year is drawing to a close so it's time to rehash last year's bit, nominate, and vote for your 2024 Hexies! These are the Hexbears you think exemplify what it means to be a real Hexbear

Here's how it works:

  1. Pick from the below categories
  2. Nominate someone for that category by tagging them
  3. If you are nominated respond to the nomination to accept it
  4. Most upbeared accepted nomination in each category wins!

What do you win? The esteem of your fellow Hexbearian comrades of course. What more could you want?

The categories for this year's 2024 Hexie awards are:

  1. Best Effortposter of 2024
  2. Most likely to be called a tankie on a blocked instance
  3. Most comradely Hexbear

This year we have a special bonus category to commemorate some of the new comms we added:

  1. Best bad poster (this is not the worst poster, this is the best poster that is bad at posting)

We got a lot of new posters this year and have a lot of great comrades visiting from federated instances, feel free to participate too! We love all of our great posters, don't we folks?

Alright comrades that's it from me, be sure and do your democratic duty and

for your 2024 Hexie winners and congrats in advance to the winners of this highly coveted and prestigious award!

And for one small trip down memory lane, here's last year's Hexies! https://hexbear.net/post/1477104

310 comments

  • Can we have a "best liberal award"? I nominate you for it lmao gotem

    No but seriously can we get a "best confused lib" award? Like the best time some lemmitor stumbled in here and fell on their ass. Also how about "best bit"? "Most outstanding copypasta"?

  • For #1 I would like to nominate the entire news mega. If a mega isn't allowed then @LargePenis@hexbear.net for the weekly rankings or @SoyViking@hexbear.net for the brave reports on the ancient kingdom in the north.
    For #2 I nominate all our brave posters who have a second account specifically to engage in slapfights.
    For #3 I nominate @Bureaucrat@hexbear.net on the technicality that pups contained the most comrades.

    • I am amazed at how long Bureaucat lasted as an account. Really a testament to this community

    • Thank you for the nomination. I'm flattered and happy that my fair and accurate reports from this exotic and remote place are being so well received.

      • I love your objective and unbiased reporting on their strange ways.

        ::: spoiler bit idea.
        I hope some day to read about how their tradition of eating pork at election somehow explains something about authoritarianism or whatever it is journalists like to do for China

    1. Le premier(e) sorcier(e) de sixours point net

    • I went for a run

      ::: spoiler I shouldn't have though now we only have today for three more dead presidents
      "Three More Dead Presidents" is the name of my Dead Kennedy's coverband

      :::

      ::: spoiler spoiler
      I'm going back to logging off for a while after today. I was just here for Christmas break. In about 11 days I will go for a half marathon so keep your eyes peeled for that. If nothing happens then it's because my knee or my back went crack (again)

  • 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.

    • Us 1 month ago: Power users 😡
      Us now: power users! 😁

    • 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.

    • It's just a fun silly thing, it's not official. I just made it up. Last years was a wholesome trip down memory lane and this year is looking to be much the same. Nobody actually wins anything this is just a silly format based on something like the Emmys for a end of the year recap post where we call each other out and remember the fun we had together on Hexbear this year. That's all! I'm sorry it makes you feel the ick though that's definitely not the intention.

      • Well I agree with you, I think it's a very fun idea indeed.

      • I'm sorry it makes you feel the ick though that's definitely not the intention.

        Well I appreciate that and I have no reason to think this was created in anything other than a loving capacity. This rly isn't about anyone in particular. If just one person made the thread it would be of no bother. Like I guess I am not so surprised that a person would make a thread like this, so much as that everyone would be participating.

        something like the Emmys

        Don't a lot of people hate awards shows like that? I know some of them are more respected than others. But aren't there always lots of complaints and gripes and resentments around those things?

        Maybe I'm just not the target audience. In some circles it seems to be normal for people to just be giving each other awards and certificates and trophies all the time. Academia and media are the 2 that come to mind. If you look at a CV for someone who's established in either of those industries they have all kinds of accolades. Aside from those, I have rarely heard of anyone I know getting any work-based prize. Except those which are directly governed by the employer ala "employee of the month" which is transparently a trick to control people. And not what is going on here.

        Instead of the Emmys, maybe a better comparison would be an amateur athletics league? But it's like, we've all been watching each other doing ribbon gymnastics and doing collective coaching, then are asked to remember who was the best batton thrower over the past year.

        If that's what everyone wants to do

    • I nominate @glans@hexbear.net for every category

    • Seems like some harmless fun to me. Imo we should deal with it after it's shown to be a bad idea rather than preemptively shutting it down

        1. I did not realize they made an emoji in my honor. Thank you for telling me and clearly I have won the site on this basis.
        2. Is there an emoji for "this is what's wrong with the left"? It is such a cliche and a very silly thing to say on the internet in the context of a forum discussion yet sometimes it does come to mind. I would like a way to say it in a way that communicates it isn't serious.

    • It is kind of hard, I like many people on here. Some are close friends. But I just try not to take it seriously and move on.

    • Solution: we have the hexbear awards but all the winning accounts are banned.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • I am nominating myself for best bad poster.

    Often, genius is not appreciated within its lifetime, but future generations will behold the nuggets I fetch you from the posting mines in awe.

  • Nominating myself for best lurker who posts some comments every two months who is too afraid to make an actual post myself after being bullied on r/chapotraphouse but in a deserved way because I only made posts when drunk.

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