Its the end of the year, and that means its time for a little reflection. We are going to be having a little "Best of the Year" contest to reward our wonderful contributors for helping to make this subreddit what it is!
This thread is for the Best Answers of the year. We will be handing out 'Gold', 'Silver', and 'Bronze' to the top three vote getters! We've taken the liberty of seeding the thread with some of the standouts from this past year, but please feel free to nominate answers not listed here.
To keep this thread streamlined though, we do ask that top posts be exclusively thread nominations, and not discussion of the awards process itself. Feel free to discuss the various threads as replies to those posts though.
You may nominate multiple answers, but please make separate posts for each. ONE NOMINATION per post. And please make sure to link to the answer, not the whole thread, thank you! And while we will do our best to check for double nominations, try to check and see if what you want to submit already has been. To facilitate this for everyone, please use the following format for nominations:
There will also be a separate award for the Best Question that was asked this year. You can find the thread for this Here.
Looking for Answers to Nominate?
/u/yodatsracist in Is their a case in history of an Anarchist society?
/u/vertexoflife in How did the invention of privacy influence sexual mores?
/u/AnacreonInHeaven in What is the history of pedophilia as a concept?
/u/thejukeboxhero in Are there any good medieval horror stories?
/u/cheapwowgold4u in What is the history of the “Tomato and Strawberry” pin cushion?
/u/itsallfolklore Why didn't elves survive the transatlantic crossing?
/u/zuzahin on Colour photography history
/u/profrhodes in Was Rhodesia as racist as South Africa?
/u/cheapwowgold4u in Why was it so popular to mix blaxploitation and kung fu in the 70's?
/u/depanneur in What is fascism?
/u/Georgy_K_Zhukov in What is the point of Armored Trains?
/u/_rococochanel in What is involved with historical translation
/u/400-Rabbits in How exactly did one “raise an army” before mass media?
/u/michaelthedrunkard in How was the Byzantine Empire important to us.
/u/shartastic in How did sports affect the Civil Rights movement?
/u/itsallfolklore in When and how did fairies "shrink"?
I feel any of the April Fools answers should most definitely get a mention, especially yours, /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov , on the invasion on Panama and again on the use of garish colours for a hangman's hood.
/u/The_Alaskan's answer to How a language dies
/u/restricteddata Question about getting a history degree