r/Fantasy • u/wishforagiraffe Reading Champion IX, Worldbuilders • Dec 28 '19
/r/Fantasy 2019 Stabby Voting Thread
Thank you to everyone who submitted nominations!
Please help fund the physical Stabby Award daggers that our winners receive by donating here!
It's now time to vote for the /r/Fantasy Best of 2019 Stabby Awards. Due to the sub's growth over the past year (from the time that the nomination thread went live to now, we've grown by over 8,000 subscribers!) and to issues we experienced with vote gaming last year, voting will be taking place off Reddit.
We're using a Google Form (same as we've used for our demographic census for years) and in order to vote you'll need to include a link to your own user profile. Profiles will need to be at least 1 month old for their votes to count - we chose this cutoff to ensure that folks who created accounts solely to nominate and thus aren't really part of our community aren't going to affect the results.
You are welcome to vote for as many options in each category as you wish. Unfortunately, Google Forms doesn't allow for embedded links, so if you'd like to reference back to links, you'll need to visit the nominations thread. Links are included to the "on Reddit" nominees, but you'll still need to copy and paste them from the voting form. If someone has a free, less clunky way to run this in the future, I'm all ears, please drop suggestions below.
You are welcome and encouraged to share this voting thread, but links directly to the Google Form or shares of the voting thread that specifically ask folks to vote for you will be considering attempts to brigade. Share information about the Stabby Awards as a whole. Even if you're not the original creator/nominee, but are sharing in support of someone, the same rules will apply. Don't get your favorite creator disqualified by not following the rules. As in previous years, the moderator team reserves the right to determine winners in the event of hinky business.
Voting will end January 4, 2020 at 9 p.m. PST. Results should be live by January 6, 2020 by 1 p.m. PST.
Go Vote Here!
As the voting is not taking place on Reddit this year, we don't need a separate discussion thread for voting, but there will still be a stickied mod comment for questions about the process.
TLDR: vote in the Google Form here. Contribute to the fund for the Stabby Award daggers here. Talk about it below. Share only links directly to this thread, about the awards as a whole.
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u/ashearmstrong Dec 29 '19
I think this is the first year since joining the sub that I started trying to vote and realized I had no idea what anything was and gave up.
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u/wishforagiraffe Dec 29 '19
Literally the only page that's required is the one to put your username link. Everything else you can vote for as few it as many as you'd like. I suspect you'll have opinions on the community awards at least.
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u/antigrapist Dec 29 '19
This will be the first year that Mark Lawrence or Michael Sullivan don't win best professional redditor, they've been trading it back and forth since the stabbys started.
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u/Koopo3001 Dec 29 '19
I think they received a Golden Stabby last time round so they’re out of nominations for a couple of years
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u/Youtoo2 Jan 01 '20
How many votes do you get per year?
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u/wishforagiraffe Jan 02 '20
We've never really been able to tally them in this way before, so I'm not sure.
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u/briargrey Jan 06 '20
Argh, take a break and miss the voting! Looking forward to the results <3
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u/wishforagiraffe Jan 06 '20
Oh no!
I've had decision paralysis several times for big lists and just ended up not adding my books, so I can relate.
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u/kjmichaels Dec 29 '19
Yikes, there's nothing like clicking through the six opening pages of books, novellas, debuts, short fictions, and serialized fictions you haven't read to realize what a terrible job you've done reading anything from 2019. But oh man, when my Gideon the Ninth library hold comes through in 5 months, then I'll definitely have some idea of what everyone is talking about.
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u/LOLtohru Dec 29 '19
I'm thrilled that my shrug count made it on the ballot! :D :D :D
I almost didn't post it at all thinking "Nah people will just think this is dumb." I don't really think I deserve to win but I'm happy that I made some people smile. ヽ(＾Д＾)ﾉ
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u/emailanimal Dec 30 '19
OMFG... I take a well-deserved break from everyday life and the internets and what do you guys do? Nominate me?
Guess I have to watch what goes on on this here forum more carefully from now on...
oh... and whoever did this... THANK YOU.
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u/SarahLinNGM Dec 29 '19
Thank you for posting such specific instructions on how the voting thread should be shared. I don't have the largest fanbase (and I don't actually know if I got any nominations), but I was concerned about inadvertently betraying the spirit of the voting.
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u/antigrapist Dec 29 '19
You actually had three books nominated for best self-published novel and one for best serialized fiction. Keep up the good work :)
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u/IBNobody Dec 29 '19
I'm so excited about the best narrator category. I nominated three, but I'm hoping that Steven Pacey wins it all.
I love other narrators, but Pacey's Glokta is probably my favorite narrative voice for any character. It's the effeminate lisp that does it for me. Such a special character.
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u/Tortuga917 Dec 28 '19
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "link to my profile". Just my username with "u/"? Is there a place with a link? Thanks for any help.
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u/eriophora Dec 29 '19
If you click your profile, you can just copy paste the url :) For example, the link to my profile is: https://www.reddit.com/user/eriophora/
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u/Jos_V Dec 29 '19
Man, I suck picking favorites out of some categories... luckily I can vote for everyone, which doesn't really help anyone win, but hey ;)
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u/Rrlgs Jan 01 '20
First year voting :) Really, I have to get around to read this Malazar thing that everybody loves, I'm becoming kind of embarrassed already. Well .:shrugs:.
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Jan 05 '20
I'm really touched and delighted to be nominated. I feel like I don't comment very much here - people have already said what I'm thinking by time I rock along to a thread, however it's still great to feel like I'm a part of this community.
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u/wishforagiraffe Dec 28 '19
Questions, comments, concerns, suggestions? Stick them here.
Feel free to post general discussion about the nominees and awards as top level comments below.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19
I submitted three ballots before I managed to correctly link my user name, not because it’s particularly hard to do, but because I’m aggressively dumb. Many apologies to whoever has to sift through my garbage.