March 02, 2004

The Bloggies are coming! Though, maybe you're more into the Anti-Bloggies instead. Like dogs sniffing crotches, bloggers are obsessed with shiny awards and link-trading.

The Bloggies are being held in March, and the Anti-Bloggies start up their shiznaz that same month, announcing winners in April. Frankly, both are pretty fun, though the Bloggies take themselves relatively seriously it seems. Maybe Monkeyfilter will one day get nominated for "Best Metafilter Clone" ... maybe we could make than an Anti-Bloggies category. "Community With Most People Who Want To Post On Metafilter But Cannot" also has a nice ring. Any ideas for awesome categories for a hypothetical blog awards thingy? Example: Anti-Bloggies has "Most Likely To Eat A Cheese Sandwich", which is a snarky way of saying said blogger tends to describe everything they're doing. "Today I got this rash, and now it's changing colour. And I just had a sandwich..." (If this is a double post, I'm totally going to maim the search function.)

posted by anonymous 20 years ago
  • If forky doesn't get "Best Hit Counter," I'm taking my toys and going home. Either that, or creating my own "Monkees" award: Best Hit Counter: forks Longest-Lived Thread: wendell, New Kids Most (In)Edible Posts: dizzy Driest Comments: wolof Plays Nicely With Others: kimberly For great justice.
  • Most Ubiquitous Cross-Blog Individual: languagehat The Rain Man Memorial Award For Achievement In Statistical Analysis: dng, 400! Best In-Joke-Creating Misunderstanding: Kimberly, Cockpunch Least Likely To Have A Tattoo: SideDish Lifetime Achievement: Jim Loy The following awards for technical categories will be handed out at a later date: Best Swearing; Most Embarrassing Personal Revelation (Intended); Most Embarrassing Personal Revelation (Oh Fuck, I Didn't Mean To Click 'Post'); Lifetime Underachievement Award; Most Impressive Bitterness; Person Most People Wrongly Assumed The Gender Of; Best Derail; Person Most Likely To Be A Bot; Achievement in Clamming Out; Best Supporting Argument.
  • Best name that hints at a more famous one: Quonset the Hut.
  • Best name that hints at a more famous one: MonkeyFilter!
  • (It's really HIM, you dumb monkeys... trust me. Well, okay, you can't trust ME... languagehat, back me up on this!)
  • QUONSAR OH MY GOD LOLOLRZ!!1 Yes, anyhow, I'm fairly sure you can start nominating blogs and putting in categories for the Anti-Bloggies. I suggest we start a huge campaign for getting MonkeyFilter nominated for, you know, something self-depricating concerning Metafilter.
  • Crankiest member: Keith Talent Top fishmonger: kuujjuarapik Bluest suit: Fes Most trusted source: Man in a pub New talent: Stan Brakhage. Monkeybashi: Tracicle
  • (pssst, flashboy - Achievement in Clamming Out...what's 'Clamming Out'??) And I'll be happy to accept my award for Monkey (Er, Kitty) Most Likely to ask a question I'll regret...
  • Best Name, Period: caution live frogs Name Most Difficult to Pronounce/Best For Cleaning Up Unwanted Scrabble
  • Best Fake Seuss: goetter Strong contender for Posts-While-Crocked: Blaise Bailey Innagen Top Nice Sort of Monkey: path
  • Most Jaw-dropping Comment: planetfour Least Likely To Get a Monkey Gift: Tori Spelling Most Posts _PERIOD_: Can anybody beat 113? and what did my hitcounter ever do to you?
  • For Space Kitty: Clam Out
  • dng: HEEEE! Thanks!
  • Forks, thanks to the archives being back, and me checkin up on my old posts, I can now say a very belated thanks for your nomination last year! Yay! Archives! Yay! I'm addicted to mofi again!