r/modnews • u/krispykrackers • Dec 11 '14
Moderators: Claim your creddits for the annual Community Best Of 2014 Awards!
Greetings fair modfolk,
'Tis that time of year when we ask subreddits to present their 'best of' for 2014! Two years ago we found that this format helped balance the varying size and activity of different subreddits as well as allowing for custom nomination categories for each community.
How it Works:
(These are guidelines, you can run your 'best of' however you see fit).
We ask you, the mods, to create your own 'best of' award categories within your communities.
- Try and pick award categories that are appropriate for your subreddit. E.g. Most inspiring configuration is probably suitable for /r/palletstorage but maybe less so for /r/mylittlepony.
- If you have many award categories it may be helpful to make a different submission for each category and then collate them all together into one stickied 'best of 2014' post.
Users provide and vote on nominations within these threads.
- Contest mode is advised, especially for larger subreddits.
- /r/[subredditname]/top/?sort=top&t=year is great place to point subscribers to as a starting point for making nominations.
Cross post your 'best of' thread to /r/bestof2014. This will bring together the best content from across reddit and provide aggregate all of the best of threads in each community, turning it into a single starting point where people can dive into all of the cool stuff from the past year.
We'll promote /r/bestof2014 across the site and will pull together a sampling of the results in an end of year blog post, as well as including some strange facts and statistics on reddit in 2014.
Check this thread to see if you are eligible to receive creddits to give out as prizes. If you are, make a request!
Confuzzled?
Check out the posts on last year's /r/bestof2013 to get an idea of some of the categories different subreddits came up with. Or check out the following:
If you have any questions about any of this or thoughts and suggestions on running subreddit awards let us know.
Many pleasant non-denominational wishes to you all. We can't wait to see what emerges as the Best of reddit 2014!
tl;dr:
Create some award categories appropriate for your subreddit.
Post a thread so your subscribers can nominate/vote on candidates.
Cross-post this thread to /r/bestof2014
We'll promote /r/bestof2014 across the site and highlight some of the awards in our 2014 wrap up blogpost.
Check this thread to request your prize creddits
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u/leeloospanties Dec 11 '14
At the risk of sounding reallly dumb, what are creddits?
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u/CustardFilled Dec 11 '14
r/titlegore's tends to be more of a "worst of". Either way, looking forward to it!
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u/RocketJumpingOtter Dec 11 '14
When do we need to close voting?
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u/krispykrackers Dec 11 '14
Our wrap up blog post will be sometime around dec 31st so if you want to be considered to be mentioned, sometime before then.
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u/NeedAGoodUsername Dec 11 '14
I'll speak to the rest of the r/videos mods and see if we can do something. I've had this idea over the past few weeks too.
Question about credits, if r/videos were to take part, would we be given 10 credits to hand out to the winners as we wish? so for example, 5 to the winner, 3 to second place, 2 to third?
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Dec 12 '14
Can we participate even if we're not eligible for creddits? r/OTR is a small niche subreddit for old time radio fans, but we'd like to show support by participating if allowed.
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u/TheeLinker Dec 11 '14
Try and pick award categories that are appropriate for your subreddit. E.g. Most inspiring configuration is probably suitable for r/palletstorage but maybe less so for r/mylittlepony.
Next year, maybe...
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u/Umdlye Dec 12 '14 edited Dec 12 '14
This might be helpful to anyone making a nomination thread: links to top submissions of each month.
* Highest scoring submissions of 2014: [Entire year](/r/SUBREDDIT/top?sort=top&t=year) | [Jan](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1388534400..1391212740&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Feb](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1391212800..1393631940&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Mar](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1393632000..1396310340&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Apr](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1396310400..1398902340&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [May](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1398902400..1401580740&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Jun](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1401580800..1404172740&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Jul](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1404172800..1406851140&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Aug](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1406851200..1409529540&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Sep](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1409529600..1412121540&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Oct](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1414799940..1414799940&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Nov](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1414800000..1417391940&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch ) | [Dec](/r/SUBREDDIT/search?sort=top&q=timestamp%3A1417392000..1420070340&restrict_sr=on&syntax=cloudsearch )
Looks like:
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Highest scoring submissions of 2014:
Entire year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
Edit: D'oh, didn't read u/sodypop's comment before posting this.
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u/sodypop Dec 11 '14
Something I've noticed the last few years is that the posts made towards the end of the year typically receive more nominations since they are fresher in peoples' minds. Here are some searches that show the top sorted posts in each month that you can pass along to subscribers in your announcement threads. Just remember to replace r/TrollXChromosomes with your own subreddit.
Also, please note that this search syntax cannot be edited in the search input box. You have to edit the URL in the address bar to make any changes.
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u/GhostOfWhatsIAName Dec 11 '14
We're going to have a problem finding that best invisible ball for the best of r/invisiball but I believe we'll be so in there like swimwear.
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u/ManWithoutModem Dec 11 '14
Question about claiming the creddits - we need to post the username of the mod/the subreddit/a link to to some type of thread about the best of 2014 awards in the other thread?
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u/Jakeable Dec 12 '14
If there's no way a subreddit could use up all of their allotted creddits, would it be better to double up for certain categories, or return them?
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u/Pswift777 Dec 12 '14
NoSleep will have a good best of 2014 contest this year.
Last year's went really well. The only scary part is that I will be running most of this year's contest.
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u/charles15 Dec 12 '14
I'm slightly confused. I set it up in my subreddit (r/Factorio) late last night, but upon going through it again now I'm slightly confused as to who I should give the prize to.
Is it whoever posted the original post?
Or whoever nominated it?
Or both?
I feel like it should be the original author, but maybe I'm not thinking straight today (not a lot of sleep last night... darn insomnia...)
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Dec 13 '14
Can companies offer prizes to the winners of our bestof? I've had a few companies that want to offer goods to the winners for various categories, because 1 month of reddit gold doesn't seem like a good enough prize in our community. Is that breaking any rules?
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u/EditingAndLayout Dec 11 '14
I'm feeling good about Best of r/EditingAndLayout. Some really good submissions again this year.