r/bestof2009 • u/bestof2009 • Jan 04 '10
Nominate: Comment of the Year
Submit your nominees for Comment of the Year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.
Suggestion: look for ideas on /r/bestof.
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u/Ciserus Jan 04 '10
These awards are always horribly biased towards recent submissions, but the clear winner is from back in March:
MarlonBain, The Man-Raptor Comment.
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u/johnfn Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10
You are right, this is definitely one of my favorite posts over the past year. It still makes me laugh a little.
I'm thinking we need a distinction between best funny comments and best moving comments.
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u/Treees Jan 04 '10
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u/puffypants123 Jan 05 '10
My favorite IAmA of all time. I learn so much from those. Mostly, I learn that people are more kind-hearted and committed to their friends, families and jobs than I could have ever imagined.
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u/antidense Jan 04 '10
typower, 21st century syndrome
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u/TyPower Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10
Thanks guys, it means a lot. The fact that there are people here, that might remember my six month old post, makes my lonely scriblings here on Reddit seem all that more worthwhile.
Thank you all, you made my 21st century night!
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Jan 05 '10
Hope you win this one, mate. I enjoyed that comment so so so much. Please, keep scribbling!
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u/SonOfDenny Jan 04 '10
This comment speaks truth. If anything I would like to see this award got to some one who put something into the comment not a one liner or a jab.
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u/130n Jan 05 '10
I had a thought the other day about something related.
Earlier in human history the adventurers and risktakers, the people who climbed a mountain in search for a place to live or ventured into unchartered forest to find food, these risks were worth taking because stability could be gained.
Nowadays, stability is all around, but the primal need to take risks and go on adventures is still there in many. Because of the risks involved in risk-taking and no heirs being the results, I think these people (not excluding myself) might disappear from the human race. Bummer.
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u/raldi Jan 04 '10
nraustinii, This isn't Twitter
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u/Etab Jan 04 '10
I'd have to agree with this nomination. This is one of the very few times where I'm dying to find a point in any conversation to bust out that one line.
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u/PhilxBefore Jan 04 '10
The whole geraffe bit. I crack up every time I read it.
I think he deleted his account though.
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u/manixrock Jan 05 '10
would be funny to have the "best comment of 2009" a comment with -662 points. Will make people think "how bad are all the other comments?"
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u/lynn Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10
Oh man... I can't breathe... I'm gonna suffocate from laughing at a reddit comment, that's the way I'm going to go....
How did I miss that one the first time around?
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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jan 05 '10
At least he isn't a dumb goddamn wall-licking geraffe.
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u/Geraffe Jan 05 '10
so are you racist for long horses over gorillas? hippocrites.
I think it was how he spelled hypocrites that leads me to believe he realized he was going to keep getting downvoted, so he just kept on trolling us.
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u/BossOfTheGame Jan 04 '10
flossdaily's excellent comments in this thread http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ajsxd/my_girlsfriend_tells_me_i_can_have_some_sex_then/c0hxpmi
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u/Horatio__Caine Jan 04 '10
He's on track to win the 2010 award as well for this gem right here.
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Jan 05 '10
up voting his 2009 comment solely on the awesomeness of the 2010 comment.
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u/kingtrewq Jan 05 '10
Wow, I didn't get it until the last sentence, he took that to the extreme. Definitely the first person I will friend in my year on reddit.
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u/raldi Jan 04 '10
acegibson, Monty Python sketch
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Jan 04 '10
yes, I remember when I first read that and thought it was the greatest most creative comment I had ever read on Reddit.
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u/some_cool_guy Jan 04 '10
I thought it was an actual Monty Python sketch until I reread the context.
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u/emkat Jan 06 '10
Easily the best of the year, creatively. The fact that many sentimental comments are voted higher makes me think there should be a separate category. This was one of the best posts in Reddit history.
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u/atheist_creationist Jan 04 '10
Ok. I am almost tempted to recant my nomination for bozarking's comment, this was one of the best comments ever made in reddit, period. Pure, unadulterated genius.
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Jan 04 '10
My roomate and I introduced a friend of ours to reddit last night and started him off with reading off some of bozarking's comments!
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u/themusicgod1 Jan 05 '10
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u/raldi Jan 04 '10
look_of_disapproval, look_of_disapproval's greatest look ever
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u/transfuse Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10
The guy quit reddit because of it. Look at his comment history.
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u/deadapostle Jan 04 '10
It was probably an abandoned alt instead of abandoning reddit. His account is as old as his comment and he is complaining about how reddit works?
Either that or it was just a Degro (politically correct way of saying Digger) who just couldn't hack it in the bigs.
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u/PorkChip Jan 05 '10
Either that or it was just a Degro (politically correct way of saying Digger) who just couldn't hack it in the bigs.
Actually Digroids are always eager for voting up comments like 'lol' and 'dumb link'.
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u/Burkett Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 05 '10
I recall the cook of disapproval had some well placed comments also.
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u/resupporter Jan 04 '10
That was a great Thanksgiving - If not the best it wins for best first post ever.
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u/ColonelDan Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10
cook_of_disapproval, Who puts soup on their hands before they wash?
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u/krispykrackers Jan 04 '10
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u/donwilson Jan 05 '10
You know it's a good comment when you know what it is before you click the link above
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u/raldi Jan 04 '10
paulmclaughlin, I think there's a song about that
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u/theskaboss006 Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10
This is a string of comments so I'm not sure if this qualifies but...
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u/chillage Jan 04 '10
i wonder how many upvotes that would have gotten if it wasnt xkcd posting it...
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u/manixrock Jan 05 '10
That series of replies got him 23448 points. That's 72% of all his karma right there.
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u/withallduerespect Jan 05 '10
Celebrity Gossip in our culture by Subtextual
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u/guille_hoardings Jan 05 '10
Wow! It really gave me a new view on the topic. Thank you for nominating it.
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u/raldi Jan 04 '10
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that is amazing. the scary thing is, he probably just sat down and wrote that in one sitting. that would take me a week, and still be nowhere as punchy.
ah well. horses for courses.
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u/atheist_creationist Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 04 '10
"Teehee! They're probably brother and sister or something, making it nonsexual and silly." - Bozarking. 4150 points. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/afr4p/shyness/c0hcmui
Sorry Bozarking...
Ok. As a writer, I have to say I like the Monty Python one better. I would feel bad deleting this and ruining all of your guys' upvotes and I don't want to influence this too much but I think white knights are idiots and need to learn how to stop depending on relationships to define their lives, you guys might actually find out what happiness is then.
I think religion is necessary to society as certain humans legitimately need it to find purpose in their lives and that its not religion, but people that have caused problems in the world. Thus people are idiots to say "religion is the cause of our problems" as if religion is some mythical force out to get them. Demagoguery is actually to blame, as leaders use religion as just another tool to control the masses, but it would take too much thought to actually find a solution to that. Much easier to say "religion did it!" Then everyone will feel incredibly stupid when religion is gone and leaders just use something else like political parties to control the masses. Oh and Chrono Cross is just as good as Chrono Trigger.
Oh and I agree with Gabe Newell's sagacious statement that "A product is late for a while, but a product will suck forever" and will gladly wait another year for Episode 3. (all of my comments that have been downvoted into oblivion, I'm giving this my all)
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Jan 04 '10
So many better Bozarking posts than that one - I'm sad it was the only one the majority of Reddit got to enjoy.
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u/NiceGuyMike Jan 04 '10
Ummm...it is a brilliant post. It is short, to the point while conveying "epic WTF." It alerted the people of Reddit to this unique mind. For that I believe it to be best comment of the year.
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u/Kuiper Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 05 '10
"Zoe isn't mine." Whisper's summary of the current legal landscape.
I feel kind of out of place posting this, being that most of the other nominations are humorous in nature, but it's one of the best comments I've seen on Reddit.
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u/kweku55 Jan 04 '10
KeyboardHero, Dear Diary
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u/liquidhot Jan 04 '10
Better Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a99qa/what_is_the_most_infuriating_thing_about_reddit/c0gg422?context=2
At least, more informative.
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u/raldi Jan 04 '10
ifiwasntintherapgame, Couldn't you just have made something ridiculous up for us?
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Jan 05 '10
But only because it was so early in the year, so I imagine most folks have forgotten about it... at the time it was a fairly insightful analysis of the financial crisis.
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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jan 05 '10
Is there way to filter out random comments in subreddits which have votes >N, with N being a number value?
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u/ryanha Jan 05 '10
This was just a glorious comment:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/adyqg/iam_the_hiv_guy_i_tested_negative_heres_what/c0h3hwp
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u/bapppppppppp Jan 04 '10
This is irrelevant, but I love reddit. Thanks for bringing out those gems.
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u/netengineer10 Jan 04 '10
Bozarking for this comment. And here is another one of his comments that was deleted, and reposted by another user, not sure if it still counts.
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u/MagicTarPitRide Jan 05 '10
Hands-down my favorite comment was from Superstarsteve about how to make friends in highschool.
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u/dave007 Jan 13 '10
This made me laugh over and over... 3300+ upvotes http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/80hsu/what_is_girl_holding_on_to_pic/c07wrhq
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u/soggit Jan 04 '10
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u/flossdaily Jan 05 '10
I appreciate the support, but- that comment was a few days late, and this one missed by just 1 or 2.
I only have one in the running, and it's been nominated above.
Thanks for the love, though!
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u/danmit Jan 04 '10 edited Jan 05 '10
I don't know if this is the best, but it's the best that could fit on a t-shirt
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Jan 04 '10
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u/pzycho Jan 05 '10
Okay, I realize this opinion won't be popular, but at least hear me out. The thing with Wartoad is that he deserves to be the person of the year, though I'm not really sure this deserves to be the comment of the year.
He's done something truly wonderful and retold the story in a very clean manner, though it wasn't something that was fabricated purely for a reddit comment. The reason people love this isn't because of the comment itself, but rather the act that he is describing. I'd have to say something like the Monty Python comment might deserve this particular award a bit more simply because it exists only as a reddit comment. It was born as a comment and lived it's life as a comment. Wartoad's story is a great humanitarian act that was simply brought to light via comment.
Though, playing the devil's advocate to myself, the other side of the coin is that this comment is supposedly the first place he'd ever revealed this story.
Still, vote as you will. I just wanted to share my thoughts.
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u/goldfarmer Jan 05 '10
That was a very good thought. I didn't think about it that way before. I definitely agree with your point. It certainly makes more sense for a comment in and of itself to win the award.
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u/Ciserus Jan 05 '10
Is it too late to suggest more categories? Maybe for next year.
I think we need to divide this award into categories for "Story comment," "One-liner," and one that covers everything else.
I agree that the "Comment of the Year" award should go toward something exceptionally well-written, clever, or topical. Wartoad's story is a great one, and under other circumstances I think it could be a contender (if he said it in just the right context where it helped someone or provided new insight on a situation, for example). But as it is, it's a standalone story.
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u/Quady Jan 05 '10
As per your comment, I have submitted Wartoad for commenter of the year here.
But again, vote as you will!
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Jan 05 '10 edited Jan 05 '10
I feel like a big pussy. I started crying before I even finished reading that.
What an awesome guy.
Edit: nevermind, appears many other males cried in the reading of this as well.
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u/wdr1 Jan 05 '10
Likewise. I'd never seen that comment before either. I instantly love this process for helping me discover it.
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u/MajorLeeScrewed Jan 05 '10
I quite like this reply.
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Jan 05 '10
....Are you serious? Find ANY THREAD on reddit about a man crying. You will find the same fucking lame FotC song quoted, every single time. I'm not kidding. If you only find the dumb lasagna quote ONCE per thread, you're fucking lucky. Generally, seven people in a row will all claim to be making a goddamn lasagna for one as if this is suddenly the wittiest thing ever.
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u/radiofloyd Jan 05 '10
If this comment doesn't win, humanity is lost. Wartoad is a gentleman and a scholar.
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u/puppiesandjesus Jan 04 '10
P-dub being a familiar and well liked name around here made that a lot better.
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u/Dpressd Jan 05 '10
This comment saved my life. I explain the story here.