User blog comment:Lasifer/The 3rd Annual Deadliest Fiction Awards/@comment-4484220-20121231090516

If some categories don't get any/enough nominees, then might we need to fall back to letting people nominate themselves?

Anyway, I agree with a lot of the nominations here, so some of them I just won't mention because I can't really contribute anything else to the discussion of them.

New user of the year
1) Yep, I know he's already on the nominations list, but I just can't stress enough how much User:Arrow7000:Arrow7000 deserves this award more than anyone else. He immediately proved to be one of the most mature users even upon joining. He was one of the three main people who discussed an designed the new page layout promoted in the revamping project when he had barely been here for a month-and-a-half, and he became an admin when he had been here for about two-and-a-half months, back when he had about 430 edits. This is completely and utterly unheard of. Not to mention how rediculously involved he has been in propelling this wiki to a new era of higher standards. He remains a valued member of the wiki enforcement team to this day, and is one of the most mature members of this wiki.

2) J80kar upon joining was unlike most any other members here. When he joined, he adapted to the policies quite well, and won Battle of the Month with his very first battle. Unless I am much mistaken, he is the very first user to have ever done this, winning more BOTM awards in subsequent months. He is also a pretty cool guy. If it weren't for Arrow, J80 would steal the show here.

3) Thundrtri has been a very good example for new users. Despite initially declaring a victor in one of his battles without receiving any votes, as well as having quite a few other derp moments, he quickly leanred how this wiki works, and is a pretty nice guy. His growth was much quicker than that of most new users here.

Author of the Year
1) Drayco90's battles, from the day he joined this wiki, have been nothing but perfect in every way. He perfectly represent the personalities and talking habbits of the characters involved, almost always has a very good reason for the warriors to be crossing paths and engaging in combat, narrorate an epic fight, and the entire thing is always an absolute perfect length. Not too long, but not too short.

2) J80kar, like Drayco, has a good length for all his battles, and makes fights that are of high quality. I don't want to altogether repeat myself, just think of it as a lot of what I said about Drayco, just not quite as good.

3) JWarrior89, while not a very active user here these days, delivers very well-written and interesting battles during the time that he manages to spare for this wiki.

Editor of the Year
1) Dr. Las Moore has been a frequent, and quite decent editor improving and revamping warrior pages on this wiki. Originally I was going to put Drayco at the top of my nominations list, but a good balance must be made between the quality of edits, and the quantity. Both of the two users below, while valued contributors to this wiki, lost a bit of momentum with their editing once the school year started. Not that I blame them at all, as I myself have had periods of being busy, but the fact remains that Las has been more actively editing than either Drayco or Arrow. While his initial attempts at revamping were the third worst revamping jobs I have ever seen, he over time improved, and now his edits are pretty good to the point that the only bits of criticism I can offer are minor details that nobody else on this wiki gives a rat's ass about.

2) Drayco90 deserves every user's respect for the revamping project that he founded and lead. His leadership and determination to get a uniform layout for warrior pages was the first step into this wiki's current era of higher standards. However, the fact that he hasn't been editing a whole lot puts him farther down this list. The revamping project gets him some points wihtout a doubt, but it's not an instant victory.

3) Arrow7000 was the first person to jump on board the revamping project, and contributed highly to the discussion of what the new proper page layout should be. He also has been a tremendous help in revamping improperly configured pages, and quite rarely makes mistakes with his edits. Unfortunately for him and the likelyhood of him getting this award, he lost a lot of momentum some months after the revampnig project as well, and hasn't been editing as frequently as Las.

Best Voter
1) El Alamein is truly this wiki's best voter for continuing to provide the most thorough, objective, and insightful votes to exist on this wiki. I was initially going to have Drayco as my pick, until EA really kicked into high gear and surpassed Drayco.

2) Drayco90's edgy edges of edginess are craved the wiki over. I feel preveliged that so far Drayco has voted on all of my battles without me even asking him to. His analysis and representation is almost alway near spot-on and this has earned him a place as one of the most credible voices of this wiki, and very skilled in argumentation. I disagree with him once in a while, and he does occasionally slip up and prove that he doesn't know his crap on a certain battle, which is part of why I'm listing him second, as I never have this thought when looking at EA's votes.

3) Arrow7000 takes after Drayco with walls of text that are often the highlight of the argument for the warrior, and exploits the weaknesses of other votes. And boy is it a show when he and Drayco clash with opposing arguments. Arrow goes lower on ths list because I just feel Arrow doesn't have the touch Drayco has, and that his votes are only superior if you look at his votes for his own battles, which I'm afraid don't cut it since he'll obviously be able to represent the warrios best since he chose the matchup.

Categories that I didn't say anything for have either already had the only nominations done that I could think of and I felt there was nothing more to be said, or I couldn't think of any.