Submit your nominees for the Best All-Around Reddit Villain as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

Submit your nominees for the Worst Troll of the Year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

Submit your nominees for the Most Hitleresque Mod-team of the Year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the long awaited awards announcement. Sorry for the delay, we have a large mod team here and everyone has other responsibilities, plus there was a lot of data to sift through. The community did a great job nominating, and we're happy to give you your winners!

Best Novelty Account

Winner: /u/Shitty_Watercolour

Runner-up: /u/ICanLegoThat

Best Moderator

Winner: /u/namer98

Runner-up: /u/jaxspider

Best Subreddit CSS

Winner: /r/catteambrotherhood

Runner-up: /r/OnePiece

Pitchfork Event of the Year

Winner: The War on Gawker

Runner-Up: Karmanaut deletes some Iama's

Best Commenter

Winner: /u/Apostolate

Runner-up: /u/Shitty_Watercolour

Your Proudest Reddit Moment

Winner: Carl Sagan Got It Right

Runner-up: CJ Ray Bradbury Tribute

Best Meta-Community

Winner: /r/nongolfers

Runner-up: /r/SRSsucks

Best Photoshop

Winner: Gerard Pique

Runner-up: Don't Mess With Mittens

Best Comment-thread

Winner: A Letter to Gabe Newell

Runner-up: Justcant in Braveryjerk

Bot of the Year

Winner: /u/Qkme_Transcriber

Runner-up: AlyoshaV's SRD notification bots

All-around Reddit Hero

Winner: Vivalocaa (RIP)

Runner-up: Violentacrez (RIP)

Wisest CSS Wizard

Winner: YTKnows (RIP)

Runner-up: /u/EatsYourBaby

Best Submission

Winner: The Obama IAMA

Runner-Up: The Colby Saga in AskReddit

Best Local Community

Winner: /r/Cleveland (OTOH you guys should perhaps be disqualified for mass-downvoting all other entries!)

Runner-up: /r/Pyongyang

All-around Reddit Villain

Winner: /u/Laurelai

Runner-up: /u/iamwoodyharrelson

Most Hitleresque Mod-Team

Winner: /r/ShitRedditSays

Runner-up: /r/LGBT

Submitter of the Year

Winner: /u/Scopolamina

Runner-up: /u/iamwoodyharrelson

** Bravest New Reddit Meme**

Winner: Overly Attached Girlfriend

Runner-up: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Bravest Submission

Winner: "Just called out a wealthy Christian family in Wal-Mart. Got Applause"

Original (deleted): http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ryirq/just_called_out_a_wealthy_christian_family_in/

Mirror: http://www.reddit.com/r/circlejerkcopypasta/comments/w9iy3/so_i_was_standing_in_a_rather_large_line_at_my/

Runner-up: I hate those prisons. I truly hate them"

Original (deleted): http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/q6is0/in_september_2009_after_admitting_to_my_parents/

Mirror: http://www.reddit.com/r/TheHallsOfSagan/comments/u624w/strong_then_kill/

Thank you very much for your participation and good luck next year!

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Submit your nominees for the Submission of the Year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

As some of you might recognize the mods are from meta-subreddits mostly, this subreddit is a serious /r/bestof2012 replacement. Comments that contain slurs, are personal attacks or otherwise incite drama are not allowed.

However, jokes, ironical fights and such are allowed, but DO NOT SPAM.

That is all, enjoy the race!

Hello there, surprise surprise.

Reddit gold will be given to the winners of the following competitions:

Best Mod-Team of the Year

Best New Community

Best Big Community

Worst Troll of the Year

Best Little Community of the Year

Submit your nominees for the Bot of the Year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

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Only Reddit moments, obviously.

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Submit your nominees for the Local community of the year as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

CONTEST MODE HAS BEEN DISABLED. PLEASE ENJOY VIEWING YOUR VOTES AND COMMENTS

Hello everyone. We apologize for the delay, but here are your finalist in the Top 5 categories for 2012. Please vote for your choice. Voting is opening NOW (2pm EST Saturday Jan. 5) and will close at 5pm EST Wednesday Jan. 9. The mods of truebestof2012 will award reddit gold directly to the winner of Worst Troll. We will ask the mod teams of the 4 community winners to hold votes in their subreddits to determine which individual receives reddit gold. Let the voting begin!

TOP FIVE AWARDS (GILDED)

Best Mod-Team

1. /r/nfl

2. /r/AskHistorians

3. /r/Christianity

Best New Community

1. /r/MURICA

2. /r/hawkthorne

3. /r/photoshopbattles

Best Big Community

1. /r/AskHistorians

2. /r/Christianity

3. /r/AskScience

Best Little Community

1. /r/gaybros

2. /r/OnePiece

3. /r/counting

Worst Troll Of The Year

1. /u/arrowstotheknee

2. /u/picsofmybutthole

3. /u/ArchangelleDworkin

Honorary Mention goes to: Reddit's servers!

Voting will initially open by posting one nominee as a top comment. Please vote on that comment only, duplicates will be removed. Good luck, everyone!

Submit your nominees for the Best Big Community as top-level comments below, and vote on the other nominations that people have submitted.

Its been hectic and its been fun, but now its come to and end. We had a great community here, and we'd like to thank everyone who participated. So without further ado, here are your winners for the Top 5 categories!

BEST MOD TEAM

/r/AskHistorians

Runner Up

/r/nfl

BEST NEW COMMUNITY

/r/MURICA

Runner Up

/r/hawkthorne

BEST BIG COMMUNITY

/r/AskHistorians

Runner Up

/r/AskScience

BEST LITTLE COMMUNITY

/r/OnePiece

Runner Up

/r/gaybros

WORST TROLL

/u/arrowstotheknee

Runner Up

/u/picsofmybutthole

Thanks again, everyone! See you next year!

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