Music Banter Awards 2014: Phase 1 - Discussion / Categories
 

It's November 1st, and I have taken the liberty of running this years MusicBanter Awards. As it's been mentioned in the Awards thread, if there is any reason that I shouldn't be running this, feel free to let me know and we can sort that out. However, I feel that since we are in the 2nd to the last month of the year, it's better to get things rolling as soon as possible so that we have as much time as we need to do this constructively and efficiently. I don't like to rush people into doing things, so more time is better.

Here is how i'm seeing the layout for this little thing, and it's going to basically be the way it's been done each year, with my own little touch.

Phase 1 - Discussion / Categories
This is what we are currently in, and it will be the time for members to throw in their ideas about what categories they'd like to see in this year awards, as well as general discussion. Once we've reached a pretty good list of categories, we can move onto the next phase, which is honestly one of my favorite parts of this whole thing.

Phase 2 - Voting Process
Depending on how long or little time it takes to get the categories sorted, the next phase will either happen near the end of this month, or at the start of December. I'd really like to get the voting process up and running before the month of November ends, but no later than the first week of December. This is the time where we will put the members into each category as we see fit. I'll come up with a deadline for when the votes should be posted. If there is any reason that you can't get your votes in by the deadline, just let me know and we can work something out.

That is one of the things we can discuss, as to how we should go about the voting. Should it be 3 members tops for each category and then we just choose 1 through elimination? Or should we just keep it to 1. I personally like it to be simple and just have each person voting put 1 member for each category. This way, it's easier to tally up votes. And the member with the most votes for that category will win automatically, instead of having 3 members fighting for the title. If that's not something we should do, i'm happy to discuss it.

Phase 3 - Results / End
Pretty self explanatory, once the voting process has taken place or we've reached the deadline for votes, the voting process will come to an end, and I will tally up the votes, and the results will be posted.

If anything is confusing or doesn't make sense, feel free to post in this thread. If all looks good, we can get the ball rolling and get into this. Let's have a fun and entertaining MusicBanter Awards!

Here are a few obvious ones:

New Member of the Year
Journal of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award

I'm sure you've done those in past years (didn't want to look at previous results lest they influence my voting), but I'm just throwing them out there.

How many years has this been going on? Sounds interesting.

The thread in the lounge shows results from 2006, so...2006.

Best Debater
Worst Debater
Best Music Taste
Best Avatar
Best Virtuoso
Mod of the Year
Most Attractive Male/Female Member

Gimp of the Year

How about stuff like

Grandpa
Creepy Uncle
Loud Aunt
Little Brother

I was thinking of implementing a "Rezzdaddy Longlegs Inspired Best Use of a Gif" Award. What'cha think?

Sounds good to me.

"Troll of the Year" would be fun… but it's probably a good idea to encourage that sort of behaviour.

I think we did a Troll of the Year award at one point, but to be honest, there aren't very many to choose from at the top of my head, so there'd be a pretty evident winner at the start. I'm all for keeping it if people want it.

Why is it Music Banter Awards 2015, shouldn't it be Music Banter Awards 2014?

Oh god i'm dumb. Neo is right. Will a mod please change it to 2014? For some reason, I was thinking 2015.

Most Likely to Have a Toenail Collection
Fangirl/Fanboy of the Year
Most Likely to Plant Black Widows in Batlord's Bedroom

This one is awesome.

Best MS Paint/Photoshopping

Best Member To Turn To For Music Recommendations

Oldest member........

:shycouch:

I thought Phase 3 was profit?

Shhhhh....

Not even close

Haha. Is Troll older also?

Most Likely To Disappear.
Best Avatar Choices.

Best Troll

I think a good way to go about voting would just to have people nominate others for specifc awards, and anyone who gets at least two nominations gets put on the ballot for that respective award. Then vote.

Funniest Member
Lounge Lizard (person who posts most in the Lounge)
Best Mod
Person Who Should Be a Mod
Biggest Perv

personally....i think this one is great :)

Quit making categories you know you'll win.:p:

Most Likely To Make a Grammatical Error.

****... . ....

Quit making categories you know WD will win.

Should the categories have questions and award names?

Who is the biggest _____? The _____ ______ Award

Funny Bunny
Roger the Lodger
Merv the Perv
Backseat Mod
Moderator the Tolerator - the mod who failed GuitarBizarre the most

Nuuuh. Just voting is fine.

Least likely to act their age
Most inconsistent avatars
Best thread starter
Coolest username
Biggest wannabe-mod
Worst case of forum OCD
Cutest couple (or should-be couple)
Picture Gallery king/queen
Most offensive member
Most wimpy member
Best quote of the year
Most varied taste in music
Least varied taste in music
Biggest hipster
Most likely to celebrate their birthday at a sacrificial site in the woods
Most missed member
Coolest older member
Biggest nerd
Most likely to have photos of dead animals

You're gonna have like ten people nominated in every category, and the winner is going to be the one who gets like three votes.

Alright, you have a decent point there.

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favorite b̶r̶i̶k̶s̶ batlord created category:
favorite b̶r̶i̶k̶s̶ batlord post:
favorite shared moment with b̶r̶i̶k̶s̶ batlord:
favorite time of the day to talk to b̶r̶i̶k̶s̶ batlord:

Most Ass Kissed In a Post

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Member of the Year

Most improved member
Favourite newb
Biggest moan
Least missed member
Funniest member
Most hardworking member
Biggest contributor
Most diverse music taste
Most mainstream music taste
Member who moved most from comfort zone
Telly addict
Film nerd
Most combative member
Member you'd most like to marry
Member you'd most like to shag
Least likely ever to meet
Biggest pain in the arse
Most surprising member
Best artist
Best writer
Wisest member
Most impressionable member

That's all I can think of for now.. ;)

Nice to see this is in full swing.

I can't think of a decent category which hasn't been mentioned so far.

Well done, Ki ! I hope you enjoy the process - and don´t fiddle the votes so that Ladyslingerie wins everything !

I used to work in an office where people would regularly say, "There´s no point re-inventing the wheel" when they meant, "Can you lend me your work so I can copy it?" On that time-honoured principle, isn´t an old category list the best place to begin ? Without wanting to spoil the fun of inventing new categories, here´s the list from 2012, for instance:-

To a list like that, I would consider adding:-

> Some of Pet Sounds family members:
....but with Mum of the Year too.

> Some of Trollheart´s ideas, see post above
> Changing "Wanna-be Mod" to Neapolitan´s´s amusing "Backseat Mod"
> Something about plug

How about Most Diverse Music Taste?