The WSO awards – Let’s make it happen!
A few months back, HarvardorBust suggested that we should do an annual WSO Posters Awards night to recognize those who have either helped, or set back the community in whatever way and while a lot supported the idea, after much fanfare it pretty much just died.
Well, I thought we should resurrect the matter to see how it works out this time around.
First off,
The Judges:
I agree with what Gekko21 said, assuming that they’re up to it; a nominations committee of around 10 to 20 of the top posters should be gathered. Who they are and how they’ll be chosen I leave to you.
The voting system:
Once again Gekko21 was right on the money on this.
“In addition to the panel discussing amongst themselves, ordinary users may post suggestions to the panel. Once the panel decides on the top5 for each category, everyone gets 1 vote regardless of if you are on the panel.”
I think this is great, but if you have other suggestions it would be very much welcomed.
The Host:
It would’ve been awesome if Blastoise or Happypantsmcgee could do this, but then again this would lead to formatting problems. Initially I thought this would be a great segment for NSFW, but that would also mean unnecessary work for the guys so I think we should keep things simple. Unless, of course they’re up to it.
And lastly...
The awards:
Most Thought Provoking PostKing of the Monkey Trainers (most helpful to new monkeys)
Best Rant of the Year
Troll of the Year
Top post about the Culture of Wall Street (kind of like a Monkey Business type thing--what working on WS is really like)
Most Bananas in a year
Most Silver Bananas in a Year
Most Monkey Shits of the year
WSO poster of the year (like Best Actor)
Best WSO Thread of the year
Best Trading Thread of the year
Best Banking Thread of the year
Craziest true story---not really about posters, but it would be nice to honor the Jeffrrey Chiang or KPMG moments that happen every year.
Most likely never to break in to finance
Most likely to become a BSD
Most SBs received on a single thread
Funniest troll (or post)
Most politically incorrect
Worst thread of the year
Those were simply the awards suggested, if you would like to add or subtract anything from the list then feel free to suggest.
We're already way behind for a 2010 awards night, so lets get this ball rolling.
Who do you want as our judges?
What else do you want to see?
Let's get this show on the road people.
Have a good one.
This is a great idea. I would add best success story of the year.
Military Pe wins that in a runaway...
Agreed, will add to the list for sure.
Oh come on man, you've earned it.
@NR, Great job man, and I agree with D M here, 9 (assuming Patrick's in) would be more than enough. Frieds would be a great addition there though so lets make it an even 10?
[quote=Nouveau Richie]Funniest troll (or post) - The responses to the Dawn Boyer thread: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/linkedin-powerful-business-profes…]
Haha! Hap, that 80's glamour girl line killed me. Thinking we should we add a best line award? Or do we have alot already?
As long as there are silver banana trophies I'm happy. Oh, and I'm hoping its top 20 SB leaders as judges lol
I might be biased though.
I like the idea
add an award for the most SBs given to one post
award for post that most clearly demonstrates intoxication and loss of judgment
Though I would benefit most from using LIBOR's method, I think the most fair would be a composite of the Most Active, the Most Overall Bananas, and the Most SBs lists. Method goes as follows:
-Take the top 20 from each list.
-Any user that is in the top 10 of all three lists is a judge: happypantsmcgee, ANT
-Next people to make the list are any users that appear in the top 10 of two lists and top 20 of a third: Edmundo Braverman, IlliniProgrammer, Midas Mulligan Magoo
-Next people to make the list are any users that are top 10 of two lists only OR top 10 of one list and top 20 in the other two. monty09, CompBanker, Marcus_Halberstram, cphbravo96
-Next is anybody on all three lists: ...
-Next is anybody in the top 10 of one list and the top 20 of one other list: CaptK, econ, rebelcross, monkeysama, Nouveau Richie, drexelalum11
-Final 6 spots are a wildcard between anyone who is on one top 10 list OR two top 20 lists: Military_PE_Guy, UFOinsider, blackfinancier, txjustin, manbearpig, Gekko21, blastoise
Admittedly a spot should also be reserved for Patrick should he so desire to participate.
Any thoughts?
^ cool
I second this motion ^Lol. Thirded.
specifically posted so i can make an effort at being recognized for an award.... ooooo most drastic attempt and fail to network via WSO
Are these LTM or Calendar year 2010 awards? I'm not gonna pay much attention to it for now. Here are some suggestions.
King of the Monkey Trainers (most helpful to new monkeys) - CompBanker
Best Rant of the Year - I don't know what the rant was or was about, but ANT probably said it
Troll of the Year - Eamon
Most Bananas in a year - happypanysmcgee
Most Silver Bananas in a Year - happypanysmcgee?
Most Monkey Shits of the year - Jerome Marrow or International Pymp
WSO poster of the year (like Best Actor) - happypantsmcgee
Most likely to become a BSD - Marcus_Halberstram
Most SBs received on a single thread - Not to self-promote, but probably me on the Regional Boutiques (IB) thread.
Funniest troll (or post) - The responses to the Dawn Boyer thread: //www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/linkedin-powerful-business-professional-…
Worst thread of the year - The one where a new user named Venusaur tried to fight Blastoise (it got deleted though)
Only on WSO
I wish I saw that one. haha
I just finished reading that thread. It's hysterical. I kind of find it disappointing that no one called his BS sooner.
Hahahahaha
Co-sign the above.
I'll record my acceptance speech and post it as a video like NSFW
Woah.... I am going to nominate myself as a Judge... While I like the idea of a collective of the Top 10, pick one list and go with that... Silver Bananas is arguably the fairest of the lists as its implicative of "user respect" so to speak, but that's just my take.
Just the first three categories should do it, 8 judges is more than enough, 9 if you include patrick.
Raj for the troll of the year
Jorge, you never make it an even number. What you do is have 10 judges and have an 11th who serves to officiate and moderate tie breakers. My suggestion is that Patrick serves as the Tie Breaker.
I second that. I completely and totally second that, and if you haven't read the thread... let me introduce you to Raj. Never in my 3+ years on WSO, have I see this much hatred directed towards one person in one post. 14 Monkey shits thrown at him just for posting that. Hell, he had 46 total piles of crap thrown at him, all in that thread alone, and his -29 bananas says something.
Special Nomination for Walking Encyclopedia - Frieds (you guys up for having one random, non-recurring nomination per year?)
one of the biggest shmuck awards should go to that raj varma kid lol
Haha there has to be a most likely to induce a heart attack thread award for Anthony...this site would not be close to the same without him.
Fun idea. We used to do this every year when I was more active in the motor sport forums a while back. We didn't have a nominations committee, though; we just made a poll of the nominees and let all the users vote on their favorite for the specified category.
We had more awards for specific users based on opinion and not points (SB's or Shit's) though:
Best New Registered User (Rookie of the Year) Funniest User Kindest User Favorite Moderator Most Thought-Provoking User Resident Curmudgeon Most Improved Most Controversial User etc.
And awards specific to the community interests (perhaps we can vote on big stories in finance and Wall Street since this is a finance board):
Best New Supercar Best New Trackcar Worst Design of the Year Best Grand Prix of the Year Ferrari or McLaren or Renault or Williams Audi or Peugeot Favorite F1 Driver etc.
I like the idea of doing this. It takes a LOT of time and effort to put together though but it's pretty fun to do.
I think everyone would agree that I am the kindest.
I am rofling at awards like "most improved" and "most likely to succeed" etc... it's like high school all over again.
Maybe we need a WSO yearbook?
Anyway I would love to see this as a NSFW episode, or at least as a massive awards thread.
Also I would like to make a motion that all the winners get a special DOLLA SIGN next to their name (like the gold star).
best poster - me
Ha, this is great.
Category suggestions can be posted in this forum or in a special forum that we designate/create. We will have to give like a week or two period for other to make suggestions.
For vote counting there a few options: 1. Set up special account where people PM all of their selections 2. Set up special Gmail account where everyone emails their votes.
The key is to have an account that can be accessed by several users at once so that the voting board can have checks and balances when the full forum needs to be counted (deciding on the categories and nominees is easy since we just need to make a group). The committee would probably have 3-4 separate groups counting votes so that we can insure accuracy (all 4 groups should have the exact same numbers and any differences would need to be investigated by the committee). I would probably vote for the WSO account, but the Gmail account does provide an extra level of protection since in an email you are either an email or a name (no one can really tell who you are the site, even if we have your real name) where as WSO accounts we only know you by that username---your username is more real/meaningful to us than your actual name.
Most Thought Provoking Post - definitely one of my posts
Troll of the Year - ME
WSO poster of the year (like Best Actor) - Definitely ME
Best WSO Thread of the year - my thread on prestige
Best Banking Thread of the year - my thread on GS TMT
Funniest troll (or post) - ME by far
Worst thread of the year - any thread without me
No... Not really Firefighter.
To quote Comic Book Guy:
I think this thread needs to be stickied.
Devil's Advocate of the year: Monkeysama.
Am I a judge?
of course.
monty, terribly sorry about that. I swear I remember writing you in on that list and if you look at my methods, it's clear that you should be. I'll fix it, you should definitely be a judge.
Greatest contribution to the diversity and expansion of WSO Google hits: IlliniProgrammer
Proof: just see what site comes up 7th for the search "midwest quant hang gliding"
First off, who the fuck would ever google 'midwest quant hang gliding'?
Secondly, Eddie needs a life time achievement award.
Jesus Happy. Do you not understand sarcasm/irony AT ALL?
Probably 40 people googled this after reading the thread - myself included.
Google 'Margin Call Review' and see who shows up on the first page.
most willing to buy you tacos, beer and steaks = monty09
Given all of the lists and basis for whom we are considering as Judges, I propose the following act as judges:
1) Eddie 2) Ant 3) Happypantsmcgee 4) Monty 5) IlliniProgramer 6) CompBanker 7) Gekko21 8) Midas 9) Myself 10) CaptK 11) Patrick - Serving as a Tie Breaker if we need it.
It offers a fairly well rounded list of well known and well respected posters within the WSO community that tend to be decently enough respected for their insight. I based the proposed list off of the Top WSO users list and the Silver Bananas board, as there are people who may not be able to post 300+ times in a 30 day period for whatever reason.The list was done in no particular order either, by the way.
If there are any issues with the proposed selection, lets work it out, otherwise lets ratify the list and have the judges set in stone.
Frieds, I think you're both excellent posters (certainly more helpful than myself), but if we're doing a 10 person format, the inclusion of you and Gekko21 seems illogical. Even if you remove the Most Recent posts as a valid list to compare from, Marcus_Halberstram, drexelalum11, and cphbravo all have more bananas and more SBs than both of you. If it's a matter of being certified, Marcus and cph are both starred as well. Furthermore, Marcus consistently writes content that gets published to front-page.
I'm aware that you have a specific group of friends on this site, but not having the above three guys instead doesn't make sense to me, I definitely think the topic needs further discussion.
Question now is (assuming we go with this list), are they actually interested in this? I know you, monty, gekko and hap are but we haven't heard from the others yet.
Only thing about that list Frieds is that most people on that list are already established(working).... don't you think it would be good to at a college student or two..
Just a thought.
There is no such thing as WSO affirmative action, and there never will be so long as I'm around. Also, have you read some of the selected judge's posts (mine included), there is plenty of "college" representation.
hahahahhahahaha
This had me laughing my ass off!!
The above list of judges is spot on.
So...how's this going to work without looking like a circle jerk amongst the judges (not that there is anything wrong with that /seinfeld)?
At least 6 of the proposed judges are deserving winners of various awards.
Judges only count votes and decide which five selections are chosen for each category. WSOers decide how much the judges get to circle jerk each other.
Probably should have read the thread before asking that. Makes sense.
NR, essentially, as judges we are just a bunch of glorified bean counters. Not that I am going to discount Marcus at all, but our main difference is that he posts more in terms of creating topics than I do. I prefer to comment and answer questions as opposed to him, who has made more topics than I do.
Yeah, we whittle it down by beancounting and then we propose the final ballot. Propose a life time achievement and special honors type awards and then we set up a survey to resolve who the winners are.
we should add... monkey of the year...
^^^wow, speechless Happy
Rookie of the year should be less than 6 mos...
Google "Big 10 grads prop trading in Lake Michigan."
Try 'Harvard GS TMT KKR'
derivstrading deserves an award. Maybe rookie of the year by HFFBALLfan123's definition, or something Trader's Train specific.
That was solely my attempt to get myself an award....
Would like to further support the motion of adding: Marcus_Halberstram, drexelalum11, and cphbravo. I think they contribute a lot to this site. Unless they are not interested in this, but I really think they deserve to be in the group as much if not more than a couple peeps on the current list.
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