The Deskthority Award 2015

[webwit]

Please vote for your winner of the The Deskthority Award 2015. This is the "super category". What was extra special in 2015?

By voting in this category you can win a store credit of £100 from the Keyboard Company!

This is the final round. See the first round and second round for reference.

The final round ends on Monday 14 December, 20:00hrs UTC. You can change your vote until the end of the round. The winner and full results will be released soon after the vote closes. EDIT: The winner has been announced here.

The official nominees are:

Muirium for his photos, advocacy, for welcoming newcomers to DT and for his color-choice for Round 5
Our master poster and previous award winner, Muirium is not one to rest on his laurels. Beating everybody in the total posts list, he is always helpful, interested, inquisitive and responsive. He also posts a lot of great keyboard porn.


Muirium's Round 5 keycaps.

Seebart for his contributions to the wiki this year
Seebart contributed a lot of keyboard and keyboard switches information and photos this year.


The new page about NEC ovals, brought to you by seebart.

XMIT for assisting cindy with the amazing vintage finds
XMIT teamed up with elecplus for her warehouse closeout sale, making a lot of vintage keyboards available for us enthousiasts.


XMIT hauling some keyboards.

Zts for his contributions to the wiki this year
Our wiki got a lot more info and photos, thanks to all zts's contributions.


Just one of the many galeries added by zts, for the Focus FK-8000.

[XMIT]

seebart does a great job with the Wiki. The APC-H412 page is based on a teardown I did back in June!

[Halvar]

I voted for seebart. Wish I could vote for zts, too. Vivat wiki!

[seebart]

I voted for zts. Thanks guys, the nomination for zts and myself was a nice gesture from 002. I wish Beardsmore would come back.

[E3E]

I voted for zts. Thanks guys, the nomination for zts and myself was a nice gesture from 002. I wish Beardsmore would come back.

I know he's still around somewhere! He helped out with a bunch of questions when I was first diving into the wonderful world of Alps, though that was on GH.

His amount of research and personal investment in trying to expand the knowledge base of Alps is really laudable.

[Muirium]

I'll point out I never won this award before. My first and last DTA was the silver Best Contributor back in my first year here: 2013.

Daniel got my vote in the Lifetime Achievement prize. So pleased to see he easily made the final while Ripster never made it out the nominations! That's DT.

[XMIT]

Oh don't get me wrong I'd still love to win this one. Or anything really.

Note that sales may resume before voting is over.

[JanitorJoe]

You're going about this all wrong. First imply that sales may never return if you don't win, then hint that you've found beamsprings.

[webwit]

The vote closes on Monday 14 December at 20:00 UTC. Vote now!

The two nominees with currently the most votes are (in alphabetical order):

Spoiler:

Seebart for his contributions to the wiki this year
XMIT for assisting cindy with the amazing vintage finds

[XMIT]

Oh it is going to be a close race! My guess is that seebart will take this. But this doesn't mean I've given up yet!

But seebart has been nominated in two categories and I have only been nominated in one! So please vote for seebart over at "Best deskthority contributor 2015"!

As for me, I won't be here at 20:00 UTC on Monday. I'll be in Dallas, loading another round of keyboards with elecplus's help for all of you to enjoy.

[Muirium]

Flagrant campaigning! Wouldn't catch a good upstanding, eminently awardable candidate like me stooping to a thing like that!

[Muirium]

Silver duck. Gold duck.



This prize is the only one I have a hope of winning, after you know who nixed the Best Review award. Must remember to misuse power more effectively in my favour next year…