BeerAdvocate User Awards

I nominate my dog, Emma - aka "BeerVikingSailorPup" as the cutest doggo on BA (but I may be just a little biased) Haha.....

 

Yes but wasn't that done posthumously??

I think status beyond Poo-Bah would be a nice gesture.

 

I nominate @scream

 

And then we have the most important human beer resource on the planet, kindly giving us info, history, humor, market overview, retail insight, straight talk inside brewing realities, and insightful wisdom about all other things beer as well. He is a man who could have taken the beer historian job at Smithsonian, and continues to keep us informed, enlightened, and interested here on BA. So yeah, we all have our areas of supposed "expertise", but...?

 

I like the idea of some form of acknowledgement for the major contributors to the success of this site and our enjoyment of using it. I have been involved in enough volunteer organizations for long enough to know that one of the secrets to motivating more involvement is recognition. I know the BA Karma points are a form of that but the criteria for those is so cryptic and inconsistent that some other form of recognition for the very top contributors, especially if it is largely based on peer input, is a good idea. Heck , just reading some of the nominations above has been a fun exercise.

 

I think @DIM means a title just for JK. One that is apart from the the regular status titles, and the means to acquire them. JK doesn't review, and doesn't post a lot, but when he does, it's quality stuff. His contributions to our collective knowledge is immeasurable. Quality, not quantity.

Which is why presenting an award based strictly on the number of posts/reviews/likes etc is a bad idea. It would reward garbage posting (which a lot of us, myself included, are guilty of, to various degrees). See the current Ass Eating thread for examples.

 

Do you use Untappd? Have you seen the things folks will do for a Cyber badge for their Cyber sash?

 

Yes. And far too late. It was driven by Mariner great Ken Griffey Jr, who asked for permission to wear 42 on Jackie Robinson Day (April 15, the date he made his debut), and was retired a few years later. It's a thing baseball should have done much sooner, but the baseball establishment moves slower than a glacier.

 

How about an award for most consistently snarcastic? The moderators could accept nominations, then make selections for vote by the community.

This is half serious. We could have some fun along with some serious recognition. We already have rankings based on metrics. Why not have an annual celebration for quality of content? As several have already noted, there is a risk of incentivizing quantity in place of quality.

 

Ya know... recognition of the Moderators is a GREAT idea. They certainly have earned more than a badge.

We could even do a head-to-head competition, a moderate-off, if you will. Ok, this just got weird.

 

This is what I meant, yes. Double barrel-aged Poo-Bah? Or maybe better yet, Imperial Poo-Bah?

You and @FBarber are spot on about my beloved baseball.

 

That's good.

A couple years ago there was talk of making more titles (in fact, on the Beer Karma page it even says "more titles will be scribed over time", and that was from a 2014 post), and I was thinking along the lines of olympic medals with, after Poobah, Bronze Poobah, Silver Poobah, Gold Poobah, and the extremely rare Platinum Poobah.

I love the idea of of Imperial Poobah being assigned, not accumulated by points. I don't think there could ever be more than a couple, 5 at the very most, Imperial Poobahs. And, off the top of my head, I can't think of anybody other than JK I'd assign it to.