After taking some time to think about it, here are my nominations:

Best Avatar: Chives: it's just so damn sexy!
Sexiest Member (Male): RVCA (sorry, I'm straight but DAMN he's handsome! Those eyes!)
Sexiest Member (Female): Vanilla/Hermione
Most Inane: HHBH -- always seems to make a mountain of a molehill and has to back up his points with many, many urls. Plus his phrase "lolwut" drives me crazy!
Angriest Member: See above. Also Urban, and Engine too.
Biggest Drama Whore: HHBH
Nicest Member: Janszoon, Lisnaholic, Jackhammer
Best Debater: Not sure about this. Janz is a pretty good debater. The best? I don't know. Big3 makes a lot of sense too.
Worst Debater: One more for HHBH. "Lolwut" is not a response.
Best Writer: Jansz, Anteater, Mr Dave
Biggest Virtuoso: Haven't heard anything by anyone so I'll pass on this.
Smartest Poster: Not really sure what that means, so again I'll pass
Funniest Member: Batlord, Exoskeletal, Howard (RIP)
Best Mediator: Probably between Jansz and Urban
Biggest Troll: Me! No seriously: HHBH once again.
Most Improved Member: Big Ears. He started off really quietly, voiced a desire to start a journal and man has he taken off!
Most Underrated Poster: Big Ears again
Most Obscure Music Taste: Has to be Jackhammer!
Best Music Taste: Subjective, so I couldn't say really. In my own preferred sphere, probably Ant or Unknown Soldier
Biggest Music Nerd: Jackhammer again. Is there anything he doesn't know about music?
Best Thread Starter: Urban.
Most Missed Poster: Howard the Duck RIP. I also miss The Nice Guy, where'd he go?
Thread of the Year: I enjoyed the cut-and-thrust of the "Obama vs Romney" thread
Journal of the Year: Janszoon's "25 albums" or US's "Pounding decibels", with an honourable mention for Big Ears' "Rabbiting on".
Moderator of the Year: Janszoon. Always ready to help, always friendly.
Best New Member 2012: Not sure
Member of the Year 2012: Howard again, just out of respect.
Biggest Lounge Lizard: Again, not certain what that means exactly so will pass on this
Member you'd most like to meet in real life: Jackhammer, Janszoon, Anteater, US, Big Ears: think I'd get on well with all you guys, IF I had spare time to meet (which I don't) and if you were able to come to Ireland.
Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life: HHBH and Engine
Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator: Vegangelica, in the nicest way possible
Most amusing Shoutboxer: I've never once been in the Shoutbox, so I'll pass on this.

Thanx man! We Irish must stick together, yeah? ;)

How can I be a wanna-be moderator when I'm already a moderator? :laughing:

Er, cos you REALLY want to be? :laughing:

Reminds me of a "readers letter" in Viz years ago. Went like this:

Dear Viz: I always wanted to be a bus driver, and now I am one.

Editor: Great. Has anyone else ever wanted to be something and then was that? Write in to us on a postcard marked "I always wanted to be X and now I am one".
On second thoughts, don't bother. :rofl:

Pfff, consider me flattered.

Best Avatar: Janszoons cookie monster one and I'm also gonna have to vote for CanwllCorfe for always having a good avatar. PoorOldPo gets a mention too for Bernard Black, especially while he and his book both have Santa hats.
As usual there are too many to mention on this forum but I would say NSW, Vanilla, Fetcher, AwwSugar, WWWP, ThePhanastasio, Hermione and Lateralus all deserve mention. I know thats more than three.
Most Inane: I'd like to abstain from this one.
Angriest Member: Engine
Biggest Drama Whore: Dirty, and he hasnt even been here. Thats laughable.
Franco, but I'm not sure this is really his fault. I just think he either doesn't have the greatest grip on English or is still learning.
Best Writer:
Biggest Virtuoso:


I'll come back to this later.

I think I am guaranteed for lounge lizard :(

also

for spite

Most Scottish: Neil

(lmfao plz dont infract me)

BAN HER!

But no, seriously, if I win Most Scottish I'm just gonna hop a train to Glasgow and rub it in Kayleighs face.

I will get my nominations in tonight. I haven't thought them out yet and i kept putting it off.

And then I will rub your face in your own piss, you drunkard :).

I take it back. Theres nothing more Scottish than that.

Because that is how confrontation is handled in Scotland, right? :D

:dj:

Thanks for the mention :)

Firstly, I don't actually work and am taking my time getting a job that I actually want (for the moment at least) so I can listen to music all day.

As for the posting frequency, the problem I have is that Music Banter doesn't always load for me (probably 50% of the time) so when I actually manage to get on the website I make full use of it... Then again, if it loaded all the time I would probably post more :D

Translated from: An' 'en Ah will rub yer coopon in yer ain piss, ye normal Scotsman.

:laughing:

:laughing:

Aww man, way off. A+ effort with coopin though and ain, ain is an everyday word :D

I can't take credit for that. I used the Scottish Translator for that.

Best Avatar:
Sexiest Member (Male): Big3 and RVCA need to wrestle shirtless for this one.
Sexiest Member (Female): Always the hardest (don't mind the double entendre) decision because this forum disproves the long held theory that attractive people dont' use forums. Vanilla takes it (again don't think about the double entendre) this year though.
Most Inane: FlyingPig. I swear I've wasted more time reading about his bizarre living situation than doing drugs, and I think it's killed more brain cells than the drugs would have. I always thought a boarding house would be more like an episode of Hey Arnold!
Angriest Member: Hard to choose between GuitarBizarre and Anticipation. The whole jayshreddz thing definitely got those two pretty riled up, but at least Anticipation didn't try to start a mass exodus, so GuitarBizarre wins this one.
Biggest Drama Whore:
Nicest Member: CanwllCorfe. Seriously I don't think there's a mean bone in this guy's body.
Best Debater:
Worst Debater:
Best Writer:
Biggest Virtuoso: Freebase Dali. I like your electronic stuff, give me more.

Smartest Poster:
Funniest Member:
Best Mediator: Urban is pretty good and stopping an argument
Biggest Troll: FrancoPepeKalle, or at least I hope you're a troll because if not then you are the epitome of what's wrong with the American education system.
Most Improved Member: Trollheart. Not that you were doing anything bad, but it is nice to see you emerging from your journal and joining the fray, and it's doubly nice to see people posting in your journal. I use to feel sad whenever I'd approve an entry and see that the last post was your previous journal entry.
Most Underrated Poster: RVCA. He posts in a number of different forums, he's devilishly handsome, but I can't help but feel like he doesn't post as much as he should because he doesn't feel like he gets the recognition he should.
Most Obscure Music Taste: Frownland for me, but I don't know a lot about avant-garde so for all I know his tastes are pedestrian.
Best Music Taste: Goofle11. He reminds me of me back in like... '08 and '09 when I had my fingers in the primordial soups of every genre I could find. He's also the only other person on here who didn't like the new Kendrick Lamar album, so we need to stick together to prevent being lynched.
Biggest Music Nerd: Urban Hatemonger. Seriously every time he posts an album I look it up out of some morbid sense of curiosity and come away feeling more elite.
Best Thread Starter: Vanilla. Her drunk threads have made my lonely Saturday nights much livelier.
Most Missed Poster: 333. I've tried to get her post more often but it doesn't seem to stick.
Thread of the Year: Albums You're Digging II. There's always interesting stuff in it.
Journal of the Year:
Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian. Any vote that's not for her is a vote wasted, even if it's for me. I'm flattered, don't get me wrong, but she really puts the effort into greeting noobs, giving you guys hats, posting about music, and deleting spam. I'm mostly just in it for the larger in box and not having to wait when I click on the "New Posts" button.
Best New Member 2012: Hard to choose between Plankton and Rjinn. Plankton seems like a really cool guy and his stuff is pretty good as well, and Rjinn really managed to fit in here. I think at the end of the day I'll have to go with Plankton.
Member of the Year 2012: Goofle11. He's here to talk about music, but has a wealth of knowledge in other subjects.
Biggest Lounge Lizard: FlyingPig.
Member you'd most like to meet in real life: Vanilla, I hear she's a great Bridge player.
Member you'd most want to avoid meeting in real life: HHBH. Never before have I seen a person who I disagree with everything they say.
Biggest Wanna-Be Moderator: Tore, which is kind of ironic.
Most amusing Shoutboxer

Aw thanks man. I used to get a bit depressed too when I'd see no comments in my journal, but then I checked the views and saw them going steadily up (what's it now, nearly 80,000 views in less than 2 years? That's not bad) so I knew it was more a case of people were reading, just not commenting, which was certainly better than no-one reading at all. I realise a massive percentage of people read but don't comment, so that's cool.

Also, it's fun to be out and about in the sunshine! :tramp:

You're here a lot, you contribute a lot and you are quick on the draw with the crap clogging up the boards and consistently on top of everything. You have an undeniable presence here and they are the main reasons I threw my vote your way.

Can't argue with your comments about Pedestrian though. She has been a wonderful appointment and addition to the mod team, a far better mod than I am and gives much more of her time to the forums, in the ways you mentioned and others.

She seems to have had a very, very busy year and so naturally can't give us as much of her time as she did last year, which is why I have voted elsewhere. I have to say though that what time she does give, she continues to be creative with (and often selfless) and try to find different activities for the community to partake in. That is really not an easy thing to do here, as most ideas I could ever come up with had been done already and either failed or died after a while. I just hope that people appreciate what she does around here and it certainly seems that they do.

It is one thing to call me the biggest troll but say I am the only thing wrong with American Education System then you must be too angry. First of all, I am a real person whether you like it or not. I have my own views, my own thinking and that is how it is and that is how it should be. You may not like that because you like some members think that we must have this monolinthic thinking but I like that we are different. That means we are human beings. Pete, you need to realize that.

How come this is one of the only posts of yours that seems to sound decent, yet all the other ones stretch the imagination of what one can do with the english language?

I voted for you Franco for most sexy Banterer. Rock on dawg. :dj:

KIEKIEKIE. Thank you Fred. Thank you.

What he said. Your inconsistencies are too numerous not to notice so unless you go to unbelievable lengths to mask your personality my statement stands. Besides one just needs to look through the Sexual Experience Thread to find other examples of your trollish behavior. In regards to the American Education System comment, perhaps it was a bit harsh, but I can only go by what evidence I have in front of me and most of your posts are incredibly hard to understand which makes me incredibly curious how you're in college.

HAHAHA, Whose's English is perfect. NO ONE. So what I **** up with some of my bad statements. I am a real person. Sometimes I am nice and sometimes I am a bitch. So what. At least I don't pretend to be something unlike YOU.

Haha, I am doing great in College btw. I am having a pretty good life. But you made my case again: MONOLINTHIC THINKING. You hate the fact that I admit that I am wrong. I can be wrong and I will in future might be wrong on things. Sometimes I am incosistent. So that means I am evil PETE? I would for you to answer that. But I am consistent on some things such as I love Franco and Pepe Kalle to death and I like booties. You just want people to think like you because if not, you will want to insult them. I am sorry that I am not like you but you need to get used to it because you will meet people that will not be like you. Unlike you, at least I admit I can be wrong.

Is it too late to vote FPK best debater. Bring the Noise. :dj:

Well everybody on here has better English than you and that even includes the FlyingPig. So the sooner you sign up for night school, the better it will be for everybody.

Shut up US. You just like Pete, want people to think you. You get mad when people don't see the way you want it. US, if you hate me so much just say it. I don't care. I am FPK and if you don't like it, I am sorry. I am not as bad as you want me to be.

Whose's.

I'll get back to you when I've deciphered this.

You're a star.

My point is this: I am far from perfect. Nobody is perfect. If everyone is perfect, why is that black people, women, men, LGBT, jews, and others get harmed. Because no one is perfect. I embrace my flaw and that makes me real. Sometimes I am a troll and sometimes I am a sweetheart. At least I do my best to own up to my mistakes. I am just a human and I am a person who wants to do the best. I can be wrong and be ****ed up but overall I am a very nice guy. I embrace different views.

Again, you made me my case. You are angry because I don't always see the way you want to see it. I am pretty nice guy but you don't want to see that because you believe you are a perfect person when you are as flawed as I am.

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Jesus christ take it outside ladies...

Interesting Pete, I will say what I said of US. You are just as flawed as I am. You just refuse to admit and you use them by blaming me. I am sorry Pete, but I don't know what you face. I face my own challanges. I have been through some hard times but I don't go and attack others for my issues. I leave it up to GOD because I trust the almighty GOD to protect me.

Well thankee kindly, Pete. This forum was responsible for putting me though a bit of an identity crisis. When I started posting I was an idiot youth with terrible taste, and was called out for it rightly so. Since then I've changed quite a lot, sometimes fading into the background, but I always return because I always discover great music here. And the people are cool. So I don't mind too much if everything I post gets completely ignored (and I know it doesn't, I'm just saying) because that's not really why I come here anyway. It's just, sometimes I feel obligated to give a little back to the place that I take so much from.

Out of curiosity, does anybody have any idea what level of irony we're operating on here?

You don't like that I nominated you for Biggest Troll, tough shit. I dont' like wading through your half-baked pop psychological assessments when you finally decide which personality you're going to put on, or your borderline sexual harassement posts. Oh and embracing your flaws doesn't excuse not to work on them, especially when it's quite evident you're not some flipper-handed homunculi baby who communicates by smashing his face into a keyboard.

I have no problem being nominated for the biggest troll. That is not the problem. You made the suggest that I am so dumb and such a bad person. Pete, I don't smash my face into a keyboard. I embrace my flaws because I realize that I have weakness and I am not saying that I am always right. I don't flip flop too much. Pete, you don't understand me (don't worry no one can). I have actually been nicer here than I was earlier when I was a little more angry but now I am relaxed.

I do have a personality which a man who has issues but who has a big heart. For example recently I remember a woman feeling embarrased because she made a gaffe and she cried. I remember that I was the one who comforted her when others were laughing at her. I am a human who happens to **** up sometimes. I have a heart. I will help people because I am a human and I know some people suffer a lot. I will do my best to bring the beauty to a darkness world.

Oh man I gotta say without the quote this came out funny, considering the previous post. :laughing:

It would take effort for me to be offended or annoyed by FPK. I don't know what he's done that's made so many of you so aggressive in your dislike of him, but I'm most certain that you take what he says far too seriously.