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:

Pick from the below categories
Nominate someone for that category by tagging them
If you are nominated respond to the nomination to accept it
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:

Best Effortposter of 2024
Most likely to be called a tankie on a blocked instance
Most comradely Hexbear

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

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

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This bit was fun last year so I hope folks enjoy doing this bit again this year too, as a bit though

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[–] Eco@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

can i be nominated for worst poster anyway

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

I nominate @Eco@hexbear.net for whatever she wants

[–] glans@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago (8 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.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's just a fun silly thing, it's not official. I just made it up. Last years was a wholesome trip down memory lane and this year is looking to be much the same. Nobody actually wins anything this is just a silly format based on something like the Emmys for a end of the year recap post where we call each other out and remember the fun we had together on Hexbear this year. That's all! I'm sorry it makes you feel the ick though that's definitely not the intention.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Well I agree with you, I think it's a very fun idea indeed.

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

no-fun-allowed

Seems like some harmless fun to me. Imo we should deal with it after it's shown to be a bad idea rather than preemptively shutting it down

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

Hmm... If everyone is already emotionally mature, then a contest like this can't really have a harmful effect, right? So wouldn't the questions then be, 1) what is our "threat model" for users being emotionally immature; and 2) what exactly is the relationship between emotional immaturity and the ability to win contests or be "officially popular"?

'Cause on the one hand, if you win family game night five times in a row and start going "mirror mirror on the wall" about it, would you say that that's the fault of family game night having winners, or is it there an extraneous root cause of that behavior that needs to be addressed instead?

Then on the other hand, Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten appearing in loads of KLM promotional material is believed to have contributed to his mental state as his plane barreled down the Los Rodeos runway that fateful day in 1977, and this led to a change in airline culture towards celebrity pilots and the effective end of actual pilots being used in airlines' advertising... Or so I swear I once heard, at least.

...I don't really know where I'm going with this. Family game night and the deadliest aviation disaster in history really have little in common, and neither have much in common with a popularity contest on an obscure communist link aggregation site.

In any case what I can say is that it's probably not the end of the world: I've seen contests like this in other online communities over the years and it's never caused any sort of trouble in practice that I've seen.

However it not causing trouble in practice, so far, that I've seen, doesn't necessarily mean that it actually is completely benign.

[–] Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is kind of hard, I like many people on here. Some are close friends. But I just try not to take it seriously and move on.

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[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lmao didn't know we had this

[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Was I rlly gone already last year that I missed the first? Zamn

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

Carter dies

Obama comes back

amogus

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Welcome back mr president

obama-prism

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

It's not official I just thought it was funny last year and then it became very wholesome so I did it again this year

[–] AutoVomBizMarkee@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Nominating myself for best lurker who posts some comments every two months who is too afraid to make an actual post myself after being bullied on r/chapotraphouse but in a deserved way because I only made posts when drunk.

[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I nominate @femboy@hexbear.net and @twink * because uhm. Let me be queer

/* I remember they deleted their acc cuz of the volcel bit and I was so dissapointed they took the username to the grave with them

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[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

Oh wait no I did participate last year

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm the best overall poster

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