Best TS:
@LeonardoBjj
He was the WR’s
@MMALOPEZ. A lot of threads over the year, and at a time we really needed it. I tried to up my thread making, only I probably made more threads last year, focusing on more opinion based stuff. Respect to our Brazilian brotha. See you on the beach.
Best thread: police shooting thread, whatever it’s called.
Look, probably better threads, but of late, I have to give the award to
@nhbbear. The thread was both serious and comical, featuring some sort of backstory we weren’t privy to — a mods promise that it wouldn’t be dumped or merged.
Worst thread: Israel vs Hamas, whichever iteration of the thread.
Like any war thread, there is a point at which things become off-the-rails bad. The religious aspect, or adherence to leftest dogma/American indoctrination, made that thread even worse than, say, Russia-Ukraine. It was crap from the start. Sure, some funny stuff in terms of battling between posters (bring back mb103, the Danish guy), but a lot of hard to read stuff shortly after the first days, leading to a bunch of rehashed arguments going on over the months that followed the horrific terrorist attack. Not to mention the amount of bans — first thread is full of them.
Worst ban: *dun dun duuun sound byte @Brakis
Listen, I don’t necessarily agree with his use of certain words, or the way he would address people in general, but I think that he gave as good as he got. In other words, it wasn’t a one way street. He would battle people who were willing, really, and get tagged in random threads. I think whatever money-making operation he was involved with would take him away for stints, and then he would return like it was a tour of duty. Moreover, he posted outside of the WR, in the UFC forum, which made him an all-around contributor, not that we care about white-trash cage fighting.
Most likely to get banned:
@skold
I don’t want it to happen, either. But on double-yellows, probably has a million reports and more to come.
Starman award:
I guess Rob, although I missed a bunch of it. Getting banned in the video game forum is like serving in WW2, only to die after the war by trying to stick up a lemonade stand. Like, you go out in the WR. Maybe he did, idk, a mod can correct me, because I saw the screenshots of Micks post and I don’t ever visit the other forum, but that’s how I remember it.
Best feud (not included on the ballot this year, just throwing it out there):
@Mack Yancy vs
@KnightTemplar; although
@Jack V Savage took a lot of heat from people.
I will format correctly in a bit.