Quote from: icopress on October 27, 2020, 03:23:23 PM

Pre-election campaign

Contradictory Campaigning can only concern the results of the nominee's activities at the forum, and not the personality or personal quality of the nominee himself.

I suggest that this rule does not make sense in the “antihero” category. That one is all about personality! It must be awarded to someone who, in the heroic sense, is too big to dismiss as a total nobody—but who is too unpopular for other awards on account of an abrasive personality, controversial opinions, and a general attitude of not giving a damn for what others think.

I voted for myself instead of Lauda, because (0) Lauda is too popular to be an “antihero”, and (1) an antihero will, of course, vote for himself before he fucks off with an ironical note on how he doesn’t care about anything that involves voting. ;-)

Quote from: icopress on October 27, 2020, 10:57:00 AM

Bitcoin Geek

A nomination for those who are passionate about Bitcoin to the extreme, (a person does not need to be a technical expert to become a btc geeks). The person you just need to ask and he will tell you one of the many interesting facts about Bitcoin. The award is given to the participant who you felt was the most helpful in the Bitcoin-related areas, who helped the most with the tricky tasks, or who simply chose a ASIC for your grandmother.

I suggest that technical expertise must be an absolute prerequisite here. A community award of “Bitcoin Geek” may be taken by the ordinary reasonable person as an endorsement of competency. From my experience with shooting down utter nonsense peddled by idiots who incompetence is exceeded only by their brash conceits, I can see how a “Bitcoin Geek” award may be dangerously misleading if given to someone who lacks real skills.

It is a title that should probably be awarded based primarily on this past year’s activity in Development & Technology, and perhaps also Beginners & Help (for the experts who help newbies). It should probably go to someone who has active Github repositories, and/or whose posts oft contain code snippets, mathematical equations, citations to academic papers, and/or other rigorous discussion.

(Obviously, this statement is not self-interested: I have not been adequately active in the tech forums this past year. I do have sufficient expertise to pass judgment on who is or isn’t an expert.)