Hi!

For many of us, this community and our community project mean a lot. Many of us spend hours upon hours here, making sure to turn r/askphilosophy into an amazing resource for people having questions about academic philosophy. Our standards make us unique, and our welcoming new members give us a soul. Your participation makes r/askphilosophy what it is and it is time to recognize your hard work.

We therefore decided to run a contest for the first time. Reddit is kind enough to give us enough coins for 20 platinum awards, each giving 1 month of free Reddit premium and 700 coins and a badge on the nominated content showing a golden Owl of Minerva.

Now it is time to nominate. nominations will stay open for about 10 days, at which point you will be kindly invited to vote on the nominations. Categories are:

• Best answer

• Best question

• Outstanding user

Additionally, there will be a wildcard category where the moderation team will distinguish comments, answers and users overlooked by the nominations and voting.

The five top voted answers / questions / users / wildcards each will receive an award :)

How to nominate

Below, you'll find three comments for the three categories. To nominate, reply to them with a link to the nominated content and please tag the username (by writing /u/xyz).

If there is an exceptional case where you request to stay anonymous, please shoot me a chat message. I will not accept nominations by normal personal message because I cannot guarantee I will not lose those.

Who can be nominated

Any user in good standing except me. I am running this contest on behalf of the mod team, so I will stay out of competition. Anyone else is fair game, except users who are banned at any time while this contest is running. But chances are if you wish to nominate someone for outstanding work on this sub, they aren't banned.

Thank you for your nominations

This is a bit of an experiment since we have never done this before. We count on you to find the hidden gems of this sub :)