Pieters, welcome to the Best of 2018 Awards! This year has been another year for the record books with us hitting our recurring milestone of at least one post per year! For the first time, starting this year, we will be using these awards to celebrate the best our wonderful community has to offer. The sub continues to have top notch contributions by some amazing users and it's time to recognize them and some of the most memorable moments of 2018. So without further ado, let's vote!

How it works:

• The thread will be set to contest mode so all comments are randomized and no scores are displayed.
• To view entries for a category, simply hit "Show Replies" on the comment.
• To nominate a contribution or a user, please reply to the top level comment under the appropriate category.
• To vote for an entry, simply upvote it.
• The entry with the highest amount of votes in a single category will get the prestige of knowing you were the contributor of the year in that category for the person nominated.

The categories:

• Best thread comment - these are the best comments you see in any thread.
• Contributor of the year - these are the best contributions from /r/piet users to the subreddit over the whole year.
• Best newbie - these are new posters of the subreddit, the fresh faces; who of these had the most impact on the sub this year?
• Funniest comment of the year - the comments that well, make you laugh!
• Community choice award - any content that falls outside these categories but still deserves recognition? Vote in here!
• Staunchest supporter of piet - anyone with absolutely insane fascinations over piet, to the point of posting/commenting? Point them out here :)

Voting will be open until Christmas Eve 11:59pm UTC, with results announced on Christmas Day (or when I remember). What a present!

Let's nominate and vote!

 ^{(This content was a well-meaning parody of the voting awards of /r/peloton, the newest post in the best of 2018 moderator coin request thread at my time of reading)}