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Hey everyone and welcome to the third annual Pits awards featuring your chosen winners of various awards from TV, movies, music, games and commenting! Like last year, if you nominated a person that one but couldn’t find their exact post … Continue reading The Third Annual Pits: Star Studded Spectacular!
Welcome to the 3rd Annual Pits Award Nominations! Holy shit, it’s been three years! This is the one where you actually vote for people and things! When someone nominates something you agree with, please upvote it. If you need to … Continue reading Third Annual Pits: The Nominations
Welcome to the 3rd Annual Pits Category Nominations featuring Categories and Nominations. Sponsored by Upvotes. If you need to review any of the past categories, threads, or winners, you can check them out here. Here’s the returning categories to start … Continue reading The Pits 2018: Category Nominations
Image by Wen Shi Greetings everyone! With Giftmas coming to a close and the end of the year fast approaching, we are bringing back our annual awards celebration, The Pits. The Kappa will soon be announcing the main part of … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Media Achievement for 2018 Announcement & Home Page
Welcome to a new feature – The Pluggers! There are tons of interesting discussions around the channel, here is a place to plug your favorites, inquire about contributing to regular, recurring, occasional threads, and / or workshop future projects. This … Continue reading The Pluggers: What’s Interesting Around the Avocado
We have gotten a lot of questions and pushback about the automod word list lately, so we’ve added a new rule and are announcing it here. The Avocado has a list of banned words, all of which are slurs. The … Continue reading Avocado Rule Update: Slurs and the Automod List
Hi everyone! Here is your State of the Channel: Holiday Edition! Giftmas is coming – if you have signed up to participate in that, check out details here. End-of-the-Year pop culture lists are nigh… we usually call them … Continue reading State of the Channel Holiday Edition
As exhausting as this year has felt, it’s hard to believe it’s already November and yet it is. The end of the year is still two months away, but there are going to be a lot of things going on … Continue reading Upcoming Events at the Avocado
It’s been a while since we’ve had a guideline update, which obviously means it’s time for some! Please note we’re putting this first one up in response to a trend we’ve noticed, not in response to any one person. This … Continue reading Guideline Updates: Considerate Insults Expansion and Fundraisers
Hello out there in Avocadoland! Please give an enormous welcome to our new Leader Beans (mods)! Future Ex Mrs. Malcolm The Duchess Approves Merve Man-in-the-moon-man Dingdong sunshine Cop on the Edge-ish Forget it Jake You read that right, … Continue reading Welcome New Leader Beans
Hello Avocados! Your friendly mod/Leader Bean team here! We’ll get right to it: we’re looking to add some new mods. We’ve been planning this for awhile, and also the wonderful Drunk Napoleon has stepped down from his mod duties, and … Continue reading A Call for Leader Beans
This is your friendly neighborhood Leader Beans here to talk about an addendum to our policy on banning that we have been discussing among ourselves for quite some time. Going forward we are going to be experimenting with the use … Continue reading Guidelines Addendum: Temporary Bans
As we rapidly approach the one year anniversary of our site, we need to take care of the grown up stuff before the celebrations can begin. The overhead to keeping this place going is pretty reasonable, mostly because the work … Continue reading 1st Annual Avocado Fundraiser
Please post your suggestions for terms and definitions to help make this thread more accurate and comprehensive! Austin Freaks A post from early on in the Avocado’s history (when it was called the ‘AVClub After Dark’) asked if there were any … Continue reading Glossary of Avocado-Specific Terms
It’s time for the ever exciting time where we announce a new guideline! And also post a gentle reminder about some of our previously existing guidelines. So, the new guideline. We’ve seen a lot of discussion and concern about people … Continue reading Guideline Update and Guideline Reminder
We wanted to put up a reminder post about how you can contact your mods, and remind you to please use these methods of contact so we can take care of issues and concerns as they happen! If you ever … Continue reading Please Contact Your Mods! Here’s How.
It’s time for a brief break from your daily routine for an important announcement. We’ve had a lot of serious talks here lately, but this is a fun one. We have officially passed 5000 posts, over here at the new … Continue reading Celebrating 5000 Threads at The Avocado
Hey everyone! Back on the Disqus days, we had a discussion about sexism on the Avocado. Highlighted issues at the time included overly aggressive flirting/innuendo, objectification of female celebrities, casual sexism, and playing Devil’s Advocate or denying sexism. I think … Continue reading Sexism on the Avocado: Part 2
We’ve had a lot of curiosity over the years about how being a mod here works and what mods see, so I thought I’d provide a little informational thread on mod basics and what we as mods do/see. Most of … Continue reading Behind the Scenes of Leader Beans
As many of you aware by now, a couple weeks ago WordPress ran an update that knocked out most of our authors. I’ve done my best to get everyone back up and running, but in the process, a former issue … Continue reading Attention Avocado Authors
It’s been a bit since we’ve had a State of the Avocado address, and while we don’t have any general guideline or rule updates, we’d like to focus on one of our guidelines that has come up a lot recently, … Continue reading State of the Avocado Special Edition – The Red Handle Rule
