Sunday, December 30, 2018

EarthPorn Best of 2018 Awards - Nomination Thread


Hey everyone, thanks for reading and being a member of EarthPorn.It's been an amazing year for our subreddit and we've grown by nearly 2 million subscribers! In 2018 EarthPorn received well over 200 submissions per day, and 99% of submissions were OC. The traffic to the sub indicates over 200,000 unique visitors each day, and over 15,000 pageviews per hour during peak times.Since it's December reddit is getting ready to celebrate the New Year by awarding the best content from 2018. You can read about it over in /r/bestof2018It's been a while since we last did a Best of EarthPorn thread but we thought we might go a different route with the categories this year, and do our selection primarily on geographic location. Bear in mind that the submission needs to have been made to /r/EarthPorn during the year of 2018. Nominate your favourite submissions by providing a link to the thread on EarthPorn in the comments below (under the appropriate category please.) With that in mind here are the categories in alphabetical order.CategoriesBest Photo of Africa (OC Only)Best Photo of Antarctica (OC Only)Best Photo of Asia (OC Only)Best Photo of Australia and Oceania (OC Only)Best Photo of Europe (OC Only)Best Photo of North America (OC Only)Best Photo of South America (OC Only)Best Contributor of OCBest Non-OC ContributorBest CommentHow voting will work:This thread will be set to contest mode. This means that all comments will be sorted randomly and no scores will be displayed. There will be 11 top level comments only, all others will be removed. 10 will contain the categories and the 11th will be for general discussion. DO NOT LEAVE COMMENT REPLIES TO NOMINATIONSPlease reply to the top level comment under the category with appropriate links for your nomination. Please only nominate a submission once per category. If you see the one you wanted to add please upvote it (this is how you vote on each category). At the end we will check all the vote numbers to determine the winner in each category.You may only nominate submissions made in 2018.Voting will last until January 1, 2019.How to find something to nominateYou can nominate your own submissions or someone else's. A good starting point would be the top posts from 2018 (apologies for the tinyurl links, the long link was ugly in reddit markdown.)Entire YearJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberThe winners of each category will take home coins as awarded to each subreddit from the admins. Each winner will receive 4,000 coins good for 2+ months of reddit platinum.Thanks again for reading and good luck everyone! via /r/EarthPorn http://bit.ly/2T6RsYc

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