Its time to close out the year, and announce the final monthly awardees! (But stay tuned for the Best of the Year vote going up soon!
To close out the year, the panelists decision for "Flairs Choice Award" fell upon the shoulders of /u/vpltz, who tackled the question of "What happened the first few days after segregation ended in the United States?"
For the "Users' Choice Award", the community was in a bit of a festive spirit, and with the top laurels going to /u/kiwihellenist for their answer to "Pagan traditions in modern Christmas?"
For the "Dark Horse Award", which recognizes the combined top-voted non-flair user's answer, it is perhaps appropriate that the year closed out with by far the closest fought poll, with several candidates neck and neck to the finish, but just by a nose was /u/Friend_of_Augustine, and their answer for "What did a medieval army (more specifically, southern France during the Albigensian Crusade) do after they conquered a town or castle? Would they leave a garrison? Put somebody in charge who's loyal to them?"
For this month's 'Greatest Question', voted on by the mods, we were taken this month by "How did New Zealand's colder climate, mountainous terrain, and vast resources change Maori culture from their Polynesian cousins on smaller islands?" from /u/LordCommanderBlack. A fascinating question, so far it remains unanswered, sadly.
Finally, we come to December's "Excellence in Flairdom Award", which recognizes members of the AskHistorians communities for their contributions beyond any one, single answer. Earlier this year we set out to revitalize the 'Monday Methods' Feature with a call to the flairs (and mods) for contributions on... whatever they damn wanted! As such, this month's EIF recognizes the flairs who answered it:
As always, congrats to our very worthy winners, and thank you to everyone else who has contributed here, whether with thought-provoking questions or fascinating answers. And if this month you want to flag some stand-out posts that you read here for potential nomination, don't forget to post them in our Sunday Digest!
For a list of past winners, check them out here!
Wow, I'm deeply honored! Thank you all. Looking forward to contributing more in 2021. Thanks so much for putting these awards together.
Thank you so much! As a history student who intends to get his PhD, this helps me know that not only are there those interested in these questions but I have a part in answering them. I hope to keep contributing here for the foreseeable future. This is one of my favorite subreddits and I'm grateful for the chance to participate.
Congratulations to all those involved. To The wonderful people who provided these amazing questions and of course, congrats to the amazing people who answered them.
Congratulations to everyone!
And thank you very much to the community for allowing me to steer a little bit into historical linguistics!
I am very honoured: thank you. I encourage anyone who follows the link from this thread to look carefully at the responses from other contributors in the thread I contributed to! There are many holes waiting to be filled in in that piece of history.
As always, a super big congratz to our glorious winners! You folks rock!
Congratulations to our winners who made the end of 2021 a intresting and informative one.
Thank you to all, via asking questions and those that gave answers, across 2021 helped make such an informative place of knowledge in a year that... has not been what we might have hoped for the world