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Final Results of the January 2020 Best Post Contest

It's been Fun, it's been Fabulous, it's been Fascinating, and, of course it's been Fantastic, but now it's also Final: the Best Post as formally voted by the Fellows of the Metafilter Academy follows ... [more inside]
posted by taz on Feb 3, 2020 - 22 comments

Week 4 Results of the January 2020 Best Post Contest

Happy lunar new year 🌙🐀everyone! Be guided by moonbeams and stardust inside to find your fantastic fourth week results of the January readers' choice contest, with final tallies for overall winners coming next week. ✨✨✨ [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 26, 2020 - 4 comments

Week 3 Results of the January 2020 Best Post Contest

The penultimate week of your excellent January readers' choice contest has come to an end, so hold on to your fundament for wonderments most luculent and eloquent, because, friends, we have results... [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 19, 2020 - 5 comments

Week 2 Results of the January 2020 Best Post Contest

Welcome to your week two results of Mefites' choice awards for best post as voted by members — we have such wonders to show you! Please step behind the velvet curtain to view the goods ... [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 12, 2020 - 4 comments

🥇 Week 1 Results of the January 2020 Best Post Contest

Thank you most excellent posters and voters for a lovely start to the January Best Post Contest! The first week was a tad short on days but nevertheless full of fantastic posts. Step inside to view Week 1 winners, and remember to keep voting with the Fantastic Flag all month. [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 5, 2020 - 13 comments

Best Post Contest for January 2020! 🎉

Ahoy, Mefites! As we approach the mystical year of 2020, it would be wise to remember the words of Pythagoras, who once said "There is geometry in the humming of the comments, there is music in the spacing of the posts," and encouraged his acolytes to engage in heroic feats of typing and linking every year — a holiday tradition Metafilter follows to this day! [more inside]
posted by taz on Dec 30, 2019 - 30 comments

Best Post Contest FINALE: winner, category winners, 1st & 2nd timers

The posts were bested! This month's contest has had some really great posts, including a ton of single-linkers, obscure subjects, the weird and the wonderful. In here we announce the overall winner, the first- and second-time posters, and Mefites announce their category winners. If you have a underappreciated post you'd like to highlight, feel free to bring it in here too -- there's chips and dip and sparkling beverages for everyone! [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Feb 4, 2019 - 23 comments

Best Post Contest, Week 4 Winners!

Best Post Contest is wrapping up. Step in here for the Week 4 round-up and a big whack of great posts you may have missed! (Overall monthly round-up coming tomorrow.) [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Feb 3, 2019 - 7 comments

Best Post Contest, Week 3 Winners!

The posts are hot and the votes are cool, or something! Come inside for the Week 3 Winners! And remember to keep voting with the Fantastic Flag for the final week. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Jan 28, 2019 - 6 comments

Best Post Contest, Week 2 Winners

The Best Post Contest is still going strong! Keep voting with the Fantastic Flag, keep posting those outstanding posts. Here are the Week 2 winners, again somewhat late - but step inside for a boatload of great stuff you might have missed the first time around, including a lot of bite-size single-link posts, nom nom nom. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Jan 18, 2019 - 7 comments

Best Post Contest Week 1 winners (a little late)!

Thanks to all you awesome posters, the January Best Post Contest first week was fab! Come in here for Week 1 winners, and remember to keep voting with the Fantastic Flag all month -- vote for as many posts as you want, early and often. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Jan 12, 2019 - 4 comments

Pest Bost Contest for January 2019!

Happy New Year! We've swapped months for the annual contest; out with December and in with January. So now it's time for the Mefite's Choice Best Post Contest! As always, Vote by flagging posts with the Fantastic Flag -- all month long, as many as you want. We'll have winners every week. Mefites can offer individual awards in categories of their choosing too. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Dec 31, 2018 - 44 comments

DECEMBER BEST POST CONTEST! FINAL AWARDS!

It was a great month for posts to finish out 2017! Read inside for the month-long winners, final-week winners, category winners, and more! [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Jan 1, 2018 - 53 comments

DECEMBER BEST POST CONTEST! Dec 24 awards, observed!

Click within to discover the full glory of the third week of the December Best Post Contest, including best posts of the week, all our first- and second-time posters for the week, and a recap of categories for the month-long contest! This week actually closed on Dec 24, but what with the holidays today is December 24 Observed. [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Dec 26, 2017 - 3 comments

DECEMBER BEST POST CONTEST! Dec 17 awards!

Click within to discover the awesomeness of the fantastic second week of the December Best Post Contest, including best posts of the week, all our first- and second-time posters for the week, and a recap of categories for the month-long contest! [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Dec 18, 2017 - 13 comments

DECEMBER BEST POST CONTEST! Dec 10 awards!

Click within to discover the full glory of the first week of the December Best Post Contest, including best posts of the week, all our first- and second-time posters for the week, and a recap of categories for the month-long contest! [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Dec 10, 2017 - 11 comments

DECEMBER BEST POST CONTEST! Rules & Categories

The December Best Post Contest is a GO. Vote with fantastic flags! Rules and categories inside! [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Nov 30, 2017 - 39 comments

July Best Post Contest! FINAL AWARDS

It was a great month for posts! Read inside for the month-long winners, final-week winners, and more. [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Aug 1, 2017 - 39 comments

July Best Post Contest! Midmonth Awards

Herein, find weekly awards and recognitions! See categories here.
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Jul 9, 2017 - 29 comments

July Best Post Contest! CATEGORIES

The July Best Post Contest is ON. Vote with fantastic flags! Rules and categories inside! [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Jun 30, 2017 - 52 comments

July Best Post Contest!

In July, we'll be having a best post contest! This will be the first one since I came on staff and I've been hassling the other mods for months, so they finally gave in. Read on for categories and start preparing your posts now! [more inside]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Jun 11, 2017 - 15 comments

Mefites' Choice best post contest, Week 4 and Community Prizes

The fourth and final week of the Mefites' Choice contest is closed, and here are the results to warm your first week of 2016. Prize-givers, announce your chosen posts in here too. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Jan 2, 2016 - 25 comments

Mefites' Choice best post contest, Week 3 roundup

Week Three of our Mefites' Choice contest saw more fabulous posts and more voters making their voices heard. Come on in to check out the terrific links you may have missed, and hitch up your posting/voting/prize-offering pants for the final week. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Dec 22, 2015 - 11 comments

Mefites' Choice best post contest, Week 2 roundup

Our month of democratic prizery continues! Remember to vote early and often, using the fantastic flag. Step right up to see a procession of the week's best posts, borne past your hungering eyes on sumptuous golden cushions. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Dec 15, 2015 - 15 comments

Mefites' Choice best post contest, Week 1 roundup

Vote with Fantastic flag, all thru December,
plus various prizes offered by members.
Now we've had one week of posts,
which did Mefites like the mosts? [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Dec 8, 2015 - 56 comments

2015 Mefites' Choice best post contest

The last few years we've run a Mefites' Choice December best post contest: everybody votes for posts via the Fantastic flag, one overall winner per week, and also community members can offer their own prizes for whatever kind of posts they most want to see. Let's do it again! [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Dec 1, 2015 - 50 comments

Mefites' Choice 2014 winners, Week Three

It's week three of the December Best Post contest (reminder: please vote for the posts you like most via the fantastic flag, and if you are so inclined, sign up on the Wiki to contribute a prize!) and I've got the winners for the week. The top post for the week is Rhaomi's comprehensive salute to Stephen Colbert. For the prize, Rhaomi can pick out anything from the Mefi Mall up to $25 from me. [more inside]
posted by restless_nomad on Dec 22, 2014 - 15 comments

Mefites' Choice 2014 winners, Week Two

It's week two of the December Best Post contest (reminder: please vote for the posts you like mostest via the fantastic flag*, and if you are so inclined, sign up on the Wiki to contribute a prize!) and I'd like to reveal the winners for this week. Coming in at #1 is the exhaustive history of everthing you ever wanted to know about long distance trucking post made by cwest. For his efforts, he gets a transforming flat vase from Eyebrows McGee and I'll personally buy one shirt of the poster's choice from Cotton Bureau. [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Dec 15, 2014 - 22 comments

Mefites' Choice 2014 winners, Week One

It's that special time of year again (reminder: please vote for the posts you like mostest via the favorites button, and if you are so inclined, sign up on the Wiki to contribute a prize!), and the first week of the Mefite's Choice 2014 best posts extravaganza has come to pass, revealing to us that, with or without salad, Metafilter members love a good chuckle, as demonstrated by storybored's #1 winning post "JokeFilter" (What's the one joke you always tell when someone says "Tell me a joke."). In thanks for the all the hilarity, storybored wins anything from the Mefi Mall from me, up to $25*. [more inside]
posted by taz on Dec 8, 2014 - 29 comments

Contents Under (not enough) Pressure

GNFTI, you complete MONSTER. How could you. I trusted you. [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Feb 24, 2014 - 61 comments

Mefites' Choice 2013 winners, Final Week

Thanks for your patience as we do all the complicated calculations to determine the week's three winners as well as the month's twenty-one(ish) overall category winners. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Jan 3, 2014 - 54 comments

The Most Choosiest Time of the Year! MeFites Choice Awards 2013

December is the Fantastic Post MeFites Choice Contest run by you, the users. Sign up to offer prizes. Use the fantastic flag to vote for your favorites. We did this last year (see winners). We're doing it again. Weekly prizes! User participation! More! Inside! [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Nov 20, 2013 - 117 comments

Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket...

Out of curiosity, has any thought been given to another August Best Post contest? [more inside]
posted by zarq on Aug 2, 2013 - 15 comments

MeFites' Choice Contest For December

December is the Fantastic Post MeFites Choice Contest run by you, the users. Sign up to offer prizes. Use the fantastic flag to vote for your favorites. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Dec 1, 2012 - 58 comments

72: Best Post Contest Results

The results of the August Best Post Contest are finally here, in this 1:15 long podcast where we recap our favorites [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Sep 6, 2012 - 130 comments

Could we gamble on this?

December best post contest - stats related question. [more inside]
posted by allkindsoftime on Dec 5, 2011 - 32 comments

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