It’s time for one of this site’s most beloved traditions: the annual commenting awards!

Here’s how it works. I’ll make a subthread for each of the categories listed below. Submit your nominations for each category as a reply, and upvote the ones you want to win. At the end of voting period at noon EST on December 28th, the nominee with the most upvotes will win the category. (You can upvote your own nominees. We here at The Avocado believe in self-love.)

Here are the categories:

1. Best Comment or Conversation – Funny
2. Best Comment or Conversation – Serious
3. Best Use of The Avocado as a Response
4. Best Username (Regular or Holiday)
5. Best Avatar (Regular or Holiday)
6. Best Gimmick Account
7. Best Pet Photo
8. Best Photoshop Job
9. Best Discovery (Media you discovered on The Avocado, and the person who suggested it)
10. Best OT or PT Header
11. Best Meme Spiral
12. Best Recurring Thread
13. Best One-Off Thread
14. Best Avocado Tournament
15. Best Werewolf Game
16. Best Rabbit/Hyperbeam/Tuturru Screening
17. Best Live-Chat
18. Best Review or Spotlight
19. Best Recipe
20. Coolest Fact You Learned from The Avocado
21. The Ack-Ack Memorial Kindest Commenter Award
22. Best Buds
23. Rookie of the Year
24. The Holy Guacamole Lifetime Shitposting Achievement Award for Most Active Commenter
25. Hall of Fame Nominations (who and why)*

*Nominations have to be seconded by at least one other commenter.