BoRU "Best of 2024" WINNERS!!
Thanks to everyone who participated in BoRU's 4th Annual "Best of" nominations and voting! Links to the polls that show places 4-6 are linked above each table.
For each category, the top 3 nominations with the most votes are recognized (winner and two runners-up). The 2024 winners are...
| WINNER | My husband has informed me he intends to go on a "gaycation" with his BIL in Ibiza. How do I handle this? | 1492/4619 votes, 32.3% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | AITA for jumping out of the way when my niece and nephew tried to push me into a pool, resulting in them falling in | 915/4619 votes, 19.81% of the vote |
| 3rd Place | Not really a cat person. HOW do I gently stop neighbor's cat from bringing me dead things? | 826/4619 votes, 17.88% of the vote |
Best post was the most participated in category with 4619 total votes and the only poll to have over 4k votes. The winner here got the most votes out every poll.
| WINNER | I’m babysitting my sister and she thinks she needs to go to the ER for her period and idk | 1122/3760 votes, 29.84% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | AITAH For breaking my Number 1 sex rule with a handicapped guy? | 856/3760 votes, 22.77% of the vote |
| 3rd Place | Not really a cat person. HOW do I gently stop neighbor's cat from bringing me dead things? | 676/3760 votes, 17.98% of the vote |
The cat person post placed in 3 polls, the most of any single post, however, it did not get the most combined votes.
| WINNER | I had to protect his niece from a pitbull and my husband ran off. I have been ignoring him is this something that I should be forgiving him for? | 985/3508 votes, 28.08% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | MIL deliberately infected my daughter with chickenpox. I'm livid. She doesn't think it's a big deal | 792/3508 votes, 22.58% of the vote |
| 3rd Place | OOP's mother abandons her after coming out of the closet | 538/3508 votes, 15.34% of the vote |
This poll was almost in order of winners, just switch the positions of posts 5 and 6.
| WINNER | AITA for refusing to cook after my BF tried to “critique” my cooking with a literal PowerPoint presentation? | 975/3525 votes, 27.55% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | Not really a cat person. HOW do I gently stop neighbor's cat from bringing me dead things? | 796/3525 votes, 22.58% of the vote |
| 3rd Place | AITA for banning my husband and father in law from the delivery room due to their intensely stressful/creepy behavior during my pregnancy? | 510/3525 votes, 14.47% of the vote |
The difference between 3rd and 4th place was 9 votes and that is not the closest vote.
| WINNER | My husband's dedication to Freemasonry is destroying our marriage and his life. How do I get this across to him? | 1057/3284 votes, 32.19% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | AITAH for wearing a white dress to a wedding after being specifically requested to by the bride? | 526/3284, 16.02% of the vote |
| 3rd Place | AITA for controlling what my boyfriend eats? (Garlic Farmer) | 521/3284 votes, 15.86% of the vote |
The winner got just over double the votes 2nd place got. The difference between 2nd and 3rd place was 5 votes, the closet vote out of the placed finshers but not the actual closet vote.
BEST POST WITH THE LOWEST STAKES
| WINNER | Do I tell my wife the truth after 11 years? | 888/2730 votes, 32.53% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | My slow cooker smells like cinnamon. MAKE IT STOP | 501/2730 votes, 18.35% of the vote |
| 3rd Place | Why do my husband and I experience severe flatulence after visiting his parents? | 488/2730 votes, 17.88% of the vote |
The difference bwteen 1st and 3rd place is exactly 400 votes. Only Best Repost had lower poll participation. A real low stakes poll.
| WINNER | surrender to the gaycation or be destroyed | 1367/2914 votes, 46.91% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | the lion, the witch and the audacit--HOW IS THERE MORE!? | 455/2914 votes, 15.61% of teh vote |
| 3rd Place | would've gotten away with it if not for those MEDDLING LESBIANS | 392/2914 votes, 13.45% of the vote |
The winner here is the only one to capture more than 32% of the vote and won by the largest margin out of any poll despite this poll being ranked 6th for participation. Gaycation received the most total combined votes with 2589 votes from its two appearances, 561 more than the three combined cat person votes.
| WINNER | OOP's husband accuses her of babytrapping him with a planned baby, loses everything | 801/2542 vote, 31.51% of the vote |
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| 2nd Place | When I was around 10 I met a strange boy who seemed to appear from nowhere, him and I became super close friends but after about a year he disappeared. I never found a way of contacting him again | 722/2542 votes, 28.40% of the vote |
| 3rd Place | OOP didn't realize that they were enslaved | 425/2542 votes, 16.72% of the vote |
The difference between 5th and 6th place was 2 votes and this is the closest vote in any poll. This is the least participated in category, but maybe that will change if gaycation is nominated for best of 2025.
Feel free to browse the nominations or voting threads to see the other posts considered, all links are above.
Thank you for participating in the Best of BoRU 2024 and enjoy your gaycation.