Welcome to the official nomination thread for the
Top DUmmies of 2015!
This thread will be unlocked circa suppertime on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday November 25; it is being posted early so as to give participants notice of the rules.Due to circumstances in my real life, the Top DUmmies is now under new management, although I’ve been asked to start the nomination and voting threads. I know who they are, but it’s up to the new management—there’s more than one individual involved—to reveal, or not to reveal, their own identities, including authorship of the awards.
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Nominations will be accepted for the Top DUmmies of 2015 beginning Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, November 25, circa suppertime, and ending Saturday, December 5, circa suppertime.
Voting will take place from Sunday, December 6, circa suppertime, through Wednesday, December 16, circa suppertime.
The rules for voting will be on the official voting thread; this of course is the official nomination thread.
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DUmmies eligible for nomination and election are those members of democraticunderground who made an appearance sometime during the year 2015. It doesn’t make any difference the number of appearances or the length of appearances; just to the DUmmie was actually on democraticunderground.
DUmmies no longer on democraticunderground are eligible for nomination and election, as long as they conform with the requirement above.
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Any member of conservativecave is eligible to make nominations, and there is no limit to the number of nominations one can make; although, seriously, they should be legitimate nominations, no
outliers, so as to keep the ballot from being too long.
Those running the
Top DUmmies of 2015 have the right to reject nominations they deem frivolous.
One nominates by commenting on this thread, and it helps if one gives at least half a sentence describing why the nominated DUmmie is worthy of consideration.
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Nominations are sought for Top DUmmies, of which there are ten.
Nominations are also sought for the William Rivers Pitt award, the “Willie,†given the most-memorable DUmmie of the past fourteen years (i.e., not just 2015).
The “Willie†is a one-time award; previous winners not eligible for nomination and selection.
Previous winners of the “Willie†have been TomInTib, William Pitt and BouncyBall (tie), nadinbrzezinski, Alan Grayson, undergroundpanther, and DainBramaged. Please don’t waste time nominating one of these, as they won’t be on the ballot anyway.
All previous winners of all awards may be viewed at
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There will be a twelfth award—but one not subject to nomination and voting—the
franksolich, given the DUmmie I personally consider has been overlooked by the wisdom of the people; franksolich is the sole determinant and writer of that award.
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The
Top DUmmies is the most popular event of conservativecave during the year, among both members and lurkers, and the more who participate, the better it is, the more fun it is.