The Julays 2025 Pre-Show Discussion - Because I'm so over recency bias messing with who gets nominated

I'm starting this process earlier than in the past because recency bias has dramatically affected who people nominate in prior years; cows whose big events happened Q1 often slipped under the radar entirely in favor of Q3-Q4 happenings.
How long will the nomination process stay open? I think if a cow does something absolutely amazing they shouldn't be potentially excluded just because it happens in October.

Just a thought though. I definitely am way too lazy to oversee something like this myself so I appreciate the effort you put in brah.
 
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How long will the nomination process stay open? I think if a cow does something absolutely amazing they shouldn't be potentially excluded just because it happens in October.

Just a thought though. I definitely am way too lazy to oversee something like this myself so I appreciate the effort you put in brah.
Nominations will stay open until the end of December. I just started the process earlier this time so the cows active in the first half of the year wouldn't be forgotten.
 
I discussed this on my podcast but I've decided I will officially support this year's contest and provide a more complex polling mechanism than the standard thread votes. If you guys want to do something where there's like brazil style elections with ranked choice then first past the post or something else strange like that let me know.
It would be interesting if we tried Approval Voting. Supposedly it manifests anti partisanship and makes individual voters more powerful as a consequence of its tallying mechanism. It had a long successful tradition electing the Doge of Venice in times past.
 
Lolcow Media nomination: Lolcow Billionaire rippin a roman at Lolcow President’s inauguration
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nominees :
Freshmeat / Sexual Deviant
Internet famous
  • H3H3
  • Will Stancil
  • WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch
  • Hoe_math
 
I'd like to nominate Raymond Quiles / @the anonymous Hatchet for the OPsec Fail Award. Within 5 hours he got doxed and his PA request got featured. Within a day he got a full lolcow thread. A truly impressive display that would make General Talbott proud.
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We went from 1 single clear answer for the OpSec fail award, now it's a very close 3 way race. Hogendorp still has my vote, if Claudio releases the manifesto I might consider it. Raymond has the potential, but he'd either need to come back to his thread or have even more crazy shit about him come out.
 
so far, my nominations would be

Emeritus: Keffals
Lolcow of the Year: Kanye, iDubbbz
Fresh Meat: Karl Jobst
Sexual Deviant: Fallenchungus/Datsmojo
Put to Pasture: Hax$
Media: Heil Hitler by Kanye (or the video of the choir singing it around P Diddy’s Hollywood star)
Not too much changed here, I think Raymond Quiles deserves the Opsec Fail award
 
He was nominated for the OPsec Fail Award where the focus is more on how Claudio managed to get completely exposed two days after registering due to ignoring the registration warning, shitting up the forum and having dog shit OPsec rather than him just arguing inane bullshit all day in his thread.
 
he'd not have won anyways, what the fuck is it besides a fat spic with a humiliation fetish that a handful of people feel compelled to tell every day they are better than him?
He would've had a very good chance (maybe not anymore because of Raymond's thread). For 7 months the only two candidates were Alex Hogendorp, and Claudio, and his thread had steady movement from ~30 users for 3 months straight, Alex's thread got 400 pages in a month then died. Forsaken Wanderer is also probably going to get nominated but lol lmao he's not winning that category.

I don't see why not to include him though. If people for some reason think he was the best halal this year, let them vote for him.
 
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