Hi! It’s time for me to pull my weight around here do our Best-Of Awards for 2024. (There were none for 2023.) The rules are simple. For each category described below, I will make a top-level comment. Please do not make top-level comments. Instead, reply to my category comments with your nominations. For posts that come in a series, like a recurring activity, please link the last one of 2024.

After a week or two (depending on the rate that nominations come in), I’ll close this and then make a post announcing the results.

Important:

1. Each comment must contain only one nomination. If you wish to nominate multiple things for the same category, make multiple comments.
2. A nomination must include a link to a specific post or comment, except for the “Most Helpful User” category, which instead must give a Reddit username. (However, in other categories including the username of the poster is encouraged.)
3. The post or comment must have been made in 2024 (in some timezone).

Comments that attempt to make a nomination but do not follow these rules will be removed.

Categories

Best Conlang Description: What post about someone’s conlang most captured your interest or showcased the greatest conlanging skill?

Best Translation Post: What translation did you find the most interesting or impressive?

Most Interesting Discussion: Was there a discussion post that exposed you to ideas you’d never thought of before, or spurred you to create something cool?

Most Interesting Natlang Fact: What’s something you learned this year that surprised you, expanded your horizons of what natural language can be, or is just really cool? While any category here could technically have a comment rather than a post nominated, I think this is the most likely to be a comment.

Best Activity: There are a number of games and challenges on this subreddit. What activity, one-off or ongoing, did you enjoy most, or pushed you the most?

Most Underappreciated Post: It’s a big sub, the algorithms are capricious, and not everyone has the time or inclination to read long texts, so many fine posts aren’t as seen as they deserve. Nominate a post you think should get more attention.

Best Resource: What document, video, paper, website, tool, or other resource was the most useful to you? This should be something you found via r/conlangs, but if there’s something useful that’s unknown here, I’d encourage you to make a resource post sometimes and share it.

Best Presentation: Presentation makes a difference. What post presented information in the most clear or appealing way?

Best Original Non-Conlanging Art: Though this is r/conlangs, let’s also appreciate other creative forms, such as the original music or visual art in some posts here.

Best Script: Though we don’t allow posts focusing exclusively on scripts, they can be a beautiful addition to posts that otherwise meet our guidelines. What original orthography wowed you this year?

Most Helpful User: There are lots of helpful and knowledgeable people on this subreddit, and it’s nice to give them some recognition.

Just for fun: (Wait, what were the other ones for?)

Best Subreddit: What’s the best subreddit? Your nominations must be r/conlangs.

Best Species of Bird: What’s this got to do with conlanging? I like conlanging and I also like birds. So there.

(Edit: these two silly categories don't require a link to a post or comment.)