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That's right folks the year is drawing to a close so it's time to rehash last year's bit, nominate, and vote for your 2024 Hexies! These are the Hexbears you think exemplify what it means to be a real Hexbear hexbear-retro

Here's how it works:

  1. Pick from the below categories

  2. Nominate someone for that category by tagging them

  3. If you are nominated respond to the nomination to accept it

  4. Most upbeared accepted nomination in each category wins!

What do you win? The esteem of your fellow Hexbearian comrades of course. What more could you want?

The categories for this year's 2024 Hexie awards are:

  1. Best Effortposter of 2024

  2. Most likely to be called a tankie on a blocked instance

  3. Most comradely Hexbear

This year we have a special bonus category to commemorate some of the new comms we added:

  1. Best bad poster (this is not the worst poster, this is the best poster that is bad at posting)

We got a lot of new posters this year and have a lot of great comrades visiting from federated instances, feel free to participate too! We love all of our great posters, don't we folks?

Alright comrades that's it from me, be sure and do your democratic duty and vote for your 2024 Hexie winners and congrats in advance to the winners of this highly coveted and prestigious award!

And for one small trip down memory lane, here's last year's Hexies! https://hexbear.net/post/1477104

spoilerThis bit was fun last year so I hope folks enjoy doing this bit again this year too, as a bit though
spoiler spoiler beanis :::

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I nominate @Edie@hexbear.net for a category of "best technical work" for always being helpful with tech related questions and for its work on ComLib, which has helped me dramatically with being able to share theory with people on the other side of the great Communist Firewall and my own personal reading order-of-lenin

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Effort posts @Frank@hexbear.net possibly due to knowing a lot of the same stuff so I can easily get a sore neck from agreeing so much.

  1. Clearly @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net I don't think there is any debate there

For the others, I dunno

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I nominate everyone for cutest poster including myself

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

This is true actually

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

I, once again, nominate myself for this prestigious award just so I can be the only two times Hexie nominated actor in Hollywood.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I'd like to nominate this moment where I made an offhand mention of a lib who had their own subreddit for monitoring us and hadn't been active in years, then received a reply from said lib in mere minutes, as the wildest moment of the year. Use the "view moderation history" button to see their comments since they were all removed.

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

can i be nominated for worst poster anyway

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[–] MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Nominating myself @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net for best username. I am not biased at all.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Nominating @REgon@hexbear.net for most likely to get called a tankie. They had a way to just keep annoying libs and be very thorough at arguing through all the ways in which they were wrong. They are great at doing the exact kind of thing that gets libs to call you a tankie, cornering them and showing them they're confidently incorrect.

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[–] glans@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I know everyone is having fun here but I personally find this whole thing tres icky. A literal popularity contest?

Maybe someone would like to explain to me how this won't lead to problems like resentment, big egos, anxiety, performance pressure, tensions, jealousies, celebrity, hurt feelings, deference etc. There are just so many pre-existing issues individually and relationally something like this could exacerbate, or even create. For all involved: who do or do not nominate/comment/vote/win.

I feel bad posting this because I guess that it will be read as maybe I don't like the people who are nominated, that I wish to be nominated etc. Anticipate any criticism, no matter the content, will initially be suspected of pettiness. Or that I am belittling the genuine affection being solicited and shared here. Don't think that's just my own idiosyncratic anxieties. The structure is created in such a way as to disincentivize ~~being the fun police~~ criticism. That makes me really uneasy too.

The idea of recognizing people who make contributions is perfectly sound. I am just not sure this is a good way. Making an institution (even as a quote/unquote "bit") of the idea that this is a place where some people are officially popular is a very weird choice for a left/communist community.

The best defense of this I can anticipate is that it'll come and go and nobody'll remember in a week. And besides it's probably a slow time for the site so fewer people than usual will even see it.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Us 1 month ago: Power users 😡
Us now: power users! 😁

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I nominate myself @OgdenTO@hexbear.net for best (worst) Beanis poster, the only category so good it wasn't even mentioned in the main Hexie lineup.

I nominate @Infamousblt@hexbear.net for best BLT recipe (Beanis, Lib-smashing, chapoTraphouse)

I nominate @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net for best all around poster this year

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[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I nominate myself for the award of most forgettable poster @Gorb@hexbear.net

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

I remember you though so this is denied

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

dang I should have badposted more

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