What voting system will be used? Can we please not use first-past-the-post just because it's "simpler"? It's objectively the worst voting system of all time. 
In order to exclude the participation of alts, the lower three ranks can be neglected in the counting of votes. Or for each item we can calculate the number of sMerits of users who voted / 10. If you have any suggestions for a voting system, I would love to hear them.
If you want to quote lock topics, you can follow the information from this topic: A guide to quoting posts in locked topics. You can use the first way described there, the second way, or a mixed way. I found a third way which implies combining the first two methods. However, it's not difficult. If you still can't manage, let me know and I'll try to explain with more detail 
Thank you, it's nice to learn something new) Although I thought that I had studied all the subtleties of the forum in 3 years)Aside the fact that most awards are based on opinion or perspective, i wouldn't add title for negative things (such as best antihero/troll) since it'll create more drama and boost their ego. Maybe we can borrow algorithm score for bumping (obvious there's major advantage for some member)
Who knows, maybe we need a little drama. But Antihero, in my opinion, is not a negative nomination. As I wrote above, thousands of users may not like a user just because he left them negative reviews. Or are you talking about antipathy on the part of very active members of the forum towards certain individuals?