Welcome! It's KOscars time!!!
Come below to nominate your favorite diary
in the following categories ONLY:
• Best Action Diary
• Best Visual Diary
• Best Non-political Diary
• Rant of the Year
• Snark of the Year
• Diary of the Year
• Best Investigative Diary (new!)
• Best Teaching Diary (new!)
Please do not nominate diary series or comments here. Individual diaries only. Nominations for other categories will begin around Dec 20, 2010, and continue past New Year's Day. Voting will begin immediately thereafter.
Below the fold are instructions about making nominations.
rb137 here, and I will be your Nominations Editor today.
• It is up to all of us to determine the nominees in the comments.
If nothing else, please read the Rules for Nominating section below before posting comments about your nominees and/or confusion. There are only 4 rules; it's very simple, honest.
Your participation matters:
The reason this concept was successful last year was the groundswell of grassroots support. People saw these nomination diaries despite naught but one making the rec list. With that said, I truly hope that this year, participation will be an even more collaborative effort than last year's series.
This concept was stated more succinctly by exmearden
(The kOscar awards are) an excellent idea and one that I hope continues each year. Hopefully with a lot of collaboration so that just a few aren't carrying the major load...
Old business:
Per the 12/13 discussion:
• We seemed to agree it's a good idea to impose a one nom/person/cat RULE. The highest rated nom (most comment recs) would automatically be the nomination. Call it the Spanking Rule: This hurts me more than it hurts you!
• Please vote in this poll to help cement the voting process of 2010
Listed are the 8 cats that had either fewer nominations, or fewer votes than the more popular categories last year.
All polls use Flash, hence you will need a Flash-enabled device to vote.
The poll here will allow multiple votes.
The current results show a clear winner, as it has more votes than the next 4 choices combined. With that said, I can also understand if people would prefer the 2nd, 3rd, and/or 4th choices were allowed to endure. It is tough to combine a category, but with the addition of at least 2 new ones, it is absolutely necessary.
Poll closes in 5 days. (Closes Dec. 18th)
NEW business:
Discussion:
On dead and famous people.
by LaughingPlanet
Adam B made a great point in comments of the 12/13 diary
• Without objection, so ruled, as they say. This will make voting much fairer to the diaries not about death and dead people. Call it the "We Are The World" Rule.
Henceforth, there will be a special section devoted to nominations that pertain to memorials of people who have passed.
• This notion did lead to more discussion on another front.
An equally profile-raising metric is being on the boob toob. We know that various celebrities like to post here sometimes. Heck, these days hardly a day goes by without a Congressperson posting a diary.
Hence, I think we should revive one of the last category choices omitted last year, namely a sort of Famous People category. To make it simple, we might just call it People on TeeVee Diary . That way, the relative fame of people cannot really be debated. All I know is that they are more famous than me, so I wouldn't want to run against them, would you?
Maybe a snap poll on this item is in order. We can add one to this diary if there is enough objection for whatever reason.
Otherwise, we will add this one last category for this year's nominations, which means a whopping net contraction of two.
:-(
Nominations
• How this works:
For the next week or so, our team of volunteers, LaughingPlanet, rb137, weatherdude, spedwybabs, boran2, GlowNZ, smileycreek, racheltracks & Kitsap River (all of whom were welcomed on a 1st-come basis in the earlier diaries this year), will post similar diaries soliciting submissions. In the comments, you leave your ideas for nominations for various categories.
The comments should look like this:
Best Visual Diary: (3+ / 0-)
My Graveside Encounter with President Obama by Al Rodgers
by Situational Lefty on Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 03:13:18 PM PST
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(Please include links to all nominations)
Simple enough?
Please, please, use only that format for your nomination(s).
One nomination per comment.
Rules for Nominating
• Don't nominate yourself. It was already done 1st by Trix. It was funny the 1st time. If you mean it for real, well, that's kinda sad, don'tcha think? Find a friend or at least a sockpuppet to nominate yourself if you must.
• Focus squarely on dkos items from 2010 only. No exceptions.
• Make the category the title of your comment and limit yourself to just one nominee per comment. The "voting" (comment recommends) will be easier if we all stick to that formula.
• Have fun. This is not life or death stuff. Never forget Rule #62: Don't take yourself too damn seriously!
When you see a nomination in the comments that you like, uprate the comment. If the comment gets enough recs, it will automatically qualify for the 1st round of voting.
If you don't like the nomination, it's likely best to do nothing. Comments such as "That guy sucks" might earn HRs. We are here to praise good work, not criticize or tear each other down.
N.B.:
The search function is your friend.
sid="2010"
From : 1 Year
To: now
will be key to all searches.
If you don't know where to begin, you may want to start here.
Ask questions you may have below as well.
And now, your previous nominations:
All nominations are listed in order by number of Comment Recommends
Best Action Diary
Daily Kos Demographics: White. Over 50. Well-Off. Male.
by Soothsayer99. (+22)
Eight Letters on Climate Change by WarrenS (+19)
Daily Kos GOTV Blogathon: Al Franken Up First! by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse. (+12)
Emergency: Ice Storms Devastate Pine Ridge Reservation and Others
by navajo (+12)
ALL HANDS: The Battle for Reconciliation begins now by nyceve (+11)
Haiti ShelterBox 124 - $575 toward box 125 by TexMex (+9)
Help Turn Off Fox by ColorOfChange (+8)
Best Visual Diary
Photos and Stories from the Labor March on Wall St. by Eddie C (+15)
Netroots Nation Days 2 and 3 – Photo HiLights UPDATE by Ed in Montana (+12)
Friday Evening Photo Blogging: Street Photography Edition by Eddie C (+11)
Signs of the Times by Land of Enchantment (+8)
Friday Evening Photoblogging: Snow Day Edition by Eddie C (+5)
In The Forest Of The Giants (photos) by Richard Lyon (+4)
Medvedev: President Obama is a thinker - unlike other people... by blackwaterdog (+3)
Best Non-political Diary
Celebrating the life of Kris Froland (exmearden); 1958-2010 by Sara R (+16)
The bravest person I've ever known: Kitsap River by Charles CurtisStanley (+14)
Some news about me . . . (update at end) by teacherken (+4)
Remembering The Greatest Storyteller In The World by WarrenS (+4)
Hero Dearming land mines with a pocket knife and stick Update w film by vc2 (+4)
Rant of the Year
Updated: F*ck you, you f*cking f*cks! by Colorado is the Shiznit (+12)
** F**k Republicans ** Rant Warning In Force by LaFeminista (+10)
Why I Get Upset: Non-Violence and DailyKos by geomoo (+5)
How to Insult a Fellow Kossack and Make it Stick! by nyseer (+4)
Ted Koppel And The Real Death Of "Real News" by Keith Olbermann (+4)
Snark of the Year
In the Second Year of The One by Unitary Moonbat (+13)
Breaking! Pooties Threaten Strike Over Daily Kos Discriminatory Practices! by Ekatarin (+12)
Want a Raise? Wash Your Vagina. by dhonig
2ND Annual "Diaries You've Never Seen" by Julie Gulden (+5)
Assistance needed regarding current medical crisis. UPDATED: SALVATION! by JeffLieber (+5)
I just got hired as commandant of one of Obama's new secret FEMA detention centers! by Bob Johnson (+4)
What Kind of Liberal Are You? by TheBlaz (+4)
Greetings from a parallel universe where Gore beat Bush by Seneca Doane (+3)
Diary of the Year
Southern History Repeating Itself: Descent into madness by Old Redneck (+27)
The starlight formerly known as exmearden by occams hatchet. (+22)
The GOP has identified the number one threat to our "Fredoms" Renzo Gasolini (+12)
And then he kicked the chair out from underneath his feet by debbieleft (+9)
"The Other Tibet" ------Xinjiang, China------- DKos Travel Board #24 by Laughing Planet (+7)
Fishgrease: DKos Booming School by Fishgrease (+6)
Black Power's Gonna Get You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism by time wise (+4)
Visualization, Framing, and that War of Words by jamess (+4)
"This is sedition in slow motion" by Troutfishing (+3)