UPDATE: THE POLLS ARE CLOSED. Polldaddy pulled a little switcheroo on me, so I’ve got to pull a little switcheroo on you. I thought it was free, but it turns out that once you get more than 200 responses to a survey in any given month, you have to pay them $200 for a year’s memebership in order to see the rest of the results. Yikes! So I’m just closing the polls instead, and will announce the winners tomorrow. If it’s any consolation, all the winners won by large margins, so I doubt there would have been any upsets if I kept the polls open longer.
And the polls are open! Vote for Man Boobz Troll of the Year, and any of the other special awards you wish to vote for.
The polls will remain open until January 1, when I will write up the results and declare the official winners!
Feel free to campaign for your favorites in the comments below.
Can we get samples of each troll’s writing? I have a 10 day memory span and I want to be fair.
I think The First Joe should be an option for Most Tiresome.
I had to give it to Martin. Steele tried with his English abuse, but penguin whores? Not much will beat that.
DtC for Most Tiresome, and Suz for Snowflake.
If there was a Most Persistent but Least Effective category then Steele would have totally nailed it.
I had to vote for Some Guy for most tiresome.
Penguin whores FTW! Doesn’t get much better than that. (I mean, superdogs aside. But Owly really didn’t seem to be trying so hard to maintain his troll status this year.)
No way, MP/LE would definitely to to Talacris!
I voted for Steele as ToTY, Martin as Worst Human Being, Sunshine Mary as Specialest Snowflake, Dumbass as Most Tiresome and I forget who for worst vote beggar – it went a bit against the grain to vote for the last two because they don’t deserve any recognition.
Nah, thankfully talacris doesn’t comment nearly as much as Steele. I’d say talacris would win Biggest Fail in general, though.
katz, I just added, or tried to add, the first joe to the tiresome question.
Can someone who hasn’t voted yet see if his name is there now?
If not, I guess he’ll have to be a write-in candidate, because otherwise I think I’d have to repost the quiz and that would wipe out existing votes, etc.
Anyone who wants to campaign for a specific candidate, please post examples of your contender(s) in action!
In the meantime, maude, there are links to all the tom martin posts in the Year of Triumphs post. Or you can just search the blog for tom martin.
I also did a post about john anderson, you can search for that.
Katz did a great post on the manboobz forum linking to a lot of Dr. Pell’s finest work.
http://manboobz.forummotion.com/t852-a-biography-of-christopher-pell
And John Anderson is making a total arse of himself on the Men’s Rights Redditor post at present.
Does “Worst Human Being” have to be someone who posted on Manboobz? Because I’m thinking of Hunter Moore for that category…
Don’t worry about changing the quiz; it is not a big deal at all!
Hunter Moore would probably win an internet-wide poll for Most Hated Person.
No, worst person just applies to MBz trolls.
They are all tiresome. That is job one for trolls.
Except when they’re having meltdowns. Pell could have singlehandedly kept a small popcorn factory going in his heyday.
If Brandon is in the running… that was some amazing work, the level of obtusity, and the sheer dedication to rewriting things and pretending nothing had changed… even Varpole’s dedication to mangling the language doesn’t quite rise to that level.
He has next year to reach for the clouds.
I must be behind the times since my favorites of NWO Slave and GirlWritesWhat (troll and FEmra respectively) aren’t even on the list.
Are they just “sooo 2011?”
Did GWW ever troll here?
Slavey hasn’t been around for a while, at least since the US election. He was put on perma-mod, I think, and gave up. He’d been past his best for a while, though, he just wasn’t trying. Peaked early and burned out …
Has GWW ever trolled here? I think it’s only actual trolls who get listed, not MRA and FeMRA douchebags in general.
I can see The First Joe in the tiresome question. However, I wrote in Bob Smith for that catagory. Longwinded + obtuse = tiresome.
Heeeere’s Bob!
I think GWW is already basking in enough sweet, sweet attention that she doesn’t feel the need to troll.
I would have voted Bob for most depressing troll, because you could just tell that he was going to stubbornly cling on to that one bad experience with Rapture Girl for the rest of his life and let it poison all future relationships. Maybe we need a category for Most Determined To Fuck Up Their Own Life.
Mr Al would have been in the running for that one, though he could have been pipped at the post by Bob. Was B-don in that category? I never had the coughpleasurecough of encountering him.