Voting for the 2012 Tarefic/Wheaties Awards has begun. You may click the selections to view the links as many times as you wish. Then make your final selection and click the “vote” button. Once you click the “vote” button on each category, you cannot change your vote. You may make one selection for each poll except the last one; for the write-in category, you may choose up to three selections. Each person may vote one time. Polls will close at the stroke of midnight (mountain time) on January 30th.
Don’t forget to vote for the Brodies at Main Street Plaza! (There are at least 4 nominations from W&T, so vote for us!)
Here we go . . .
Wheaties categories:
Best Big Blog:
| Wheat and Tares | [poll id=204] |
| By Common Consent | |
| Feminist Mormon Housewives | |
| Times and Seasons | |
Best group blog:
| Juvenile Instructor | [poll id=205 ] |
| Peculiar People | |
| Faith Promoting Rumor | |
| Zelophehad’s Daughters | |
| Doves and Serpents | |
| Exponent II | |
| With Real Intent | |
| Worlds Without End | |
| Main Street Plaza | |
| Mormon Mentality | |
Best Humorous Blog
| Overheard in the Ward | [poll id=206 ] |
| Expert Textperts | |
| Sistas in Zion | |
Best solo blog:
| Keepapitchinin by Ardis Parshall | [poll id=207] |
| No Death Before the Fall by R Gary | |
| Irresistible Disgrace by Andrew S | |
Best new blog: (must have put up its first post in 2012)
| Peculiar People | [poll id=208] |
| With Real Intent | |
| Worlds Without End | |
Best blog layout/graphics:
| FMH (redesign) | [poll id=209] |
| With Real Intent | |
| Doves and Serpents | |
| Worlds Without End | |
Best overall blogger:
| Taylor Petrey | [poll id=210] |
| George Handley | |
| Hawkgrrrl | |
| Mike S | |
| Jacob Baker | |
| Andrew S | |
| John Hamer | |
| Margaret Young | |
| Tracy M | |
Best commenter:
| Hawkgrrrl | [poll id=211] |
| Mike S | |
| Thomas Parkin | |
Funniest thread:
| Are We Paying Too Much Tithing? (It was unintentionally funny because of the commenters.) | [poll id=212] |
| The Super Bowl of Analogies by Cynthia L. | |
| Ziff’s Nacle Notebook 2012: Funny Comments | |
Best post title:
| Exactly 1000 words on pants by Cynthia L. | [poll id=213] |
| Steve Evans, “To All the Stupid People“ | |
| Will God and my Good, True, Loving Husband Be Merciful?” The Secret Love Letters of Joseph F. Smith and Susa Young Gates | |
Best humorous post:
| Matsby, “John McNaughton’s Idea Journal“ | [poll id=214] |
| Casey, General Conference: What are the Odds? | |
| Election Reactions Explained by GIFs | |
| Elder Uchtdorf to don Burqa by ZD | |
| Hawkgrrrl, Poor Rich People | |
Best historical post:
| Ben P., “Mormon Patriotism and the Cultural Reading of Scripture“ | [poll id=215] |
| Amanda, “Hawaiian History, Colonialism, and the Polynesian Cultural Center“ | |
| Ben P., “A Historical Note on ‘Unorthodox Mormonism” | |
| Mormon Heretic, The First Black Mormon Leader: Pete | |
| Mormon Heretic, The Bushman Interviews | |
| Rock Waterman, Are We Paying Too Much Tithing? | |
Best spiritual post:
| Jacob Baker, “All Eternity Shakes: Mormonism’s Weeping God“ | [poll id=216] |
| SC Taysom, “What Quinten Tarantino Taught Me About the Temple“ | |
| Kristine, “To See Face to Face“ | |
Best doctrinal post:
| Why is it So Hard to Figure Out what Mormons Believe? | [poll id=217] |
| Gospel Doctrine lessons by Julie Smith | |
| Emma, My daughter in Zion: A Preliminary Study of D&C24 by Joseph M. Spencer | |
| LDS Correlated Lessons and the Hermeneutical Model-Pardes | |
| Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo In His Own Words: Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo, 2012 | |
| The Temple and the tempest by James Olson | |
| Rock Waterman, Are We Paying Too Much Tithing? | |
| Brad Kramer, Pride, Gross Iniquity, And Suffering for One’s Sins | |
Best personal post:
| A mission dream for the last day of autumn by Craig H. | [poll id=218] |
| Greg Prince: My Journey | |
| Kristine, “To See Face to Face“ | |
| What is in name: Faith of my Fathers | |
| Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo In His Own Words: Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo, 2012 | |
| Anonymous/Matthew, “Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: And Have Joy Therein” | |
| Unraveling by Lynette | |
Best current events post:
| Patrick Mason, “The Politics of Jesus“ | [poll id=219] |
| Saskia T., “Negotiation on the Internet: The Mormon ‘Hey Girl’ Meme“ | |
| fmhLisa, On Nastiness: Why Nice Mormons Can be so very very mean about pants | |
Best book/article review:
| Juvenile Instructor’s series on Turner’s biography of Brigham Young | [poll id=220] |
| David G. et. al., Roundtable on the Brigham Young Biography | |
| Ben P, “2012 in Retrospect: An Overview of Noteworthy Articles and Books in Mormon History | |
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2012:
| Jacob Baker | [poll id=221] |
| Steve P.’s Gilda Trillim series | |
| Joanna Brooks appearing on The Daily Show | |
| “Forgotten Women” series by Winterbuzz | |
| Mormon Heretic, The Bushman Interviews | |
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
| Chanson at Main Street Plaza | [poll id=222] |
| Joanna Brooks | |
| Sara Long/Scott Holley/Mormon Building Bridges for Mormon Pride Parade | |
Best Mormon podcast series
| Mormon Stories | [poll id=223] |
| Mormon Matters | |
| Mormon Expression | |
| Mormon Expositor | |
| Infants on Thrones | |
| Mormon Stories Sunday School | |
| Feminist Mormon Housewives Podcast | |
Best Mormon Facebook Community
| Mormon Stories Podcast Community | [poll id=224] |
| Mormon Expression VIP Lounge | |
| Feminist Mormon Housewives Society | |
Write-in category (can choose 3):
| Best Mormon Moment Post: Patrick Mason, “Why Romney’s Loss is Good for Mormonism“ | [poll id=225] |
| Ben P., “The Best of the Mormon Moment.” | |
| Best Social Activism – All Enlisted – Wear Pants to Church Day | |
| Best Definition of Commonly Misused Terms in the Church: “What Is The Church?” | |
| Best Definition of Commonly Misused Terms in the Church: “Understanding Priesthood Keys.” | |
| Best Poetry Column – Psaltery and Lyre | |
| Julie Smith and the Kent Larsen for their posts on BoM | |
| Most clever name for an awards category: “Tarefic” | |
| Best Activism: FMH – Temple Baptism Project -leading to church clarification that menstruating women should not be banned from temple baptisms | |
| Most Memorable Comment: Mark Brown, The Super Bowl of Analogies | |
Categories for the Tarefic Awards!
Worst Mormon internet drama
| David Twede/MormonThink Controversy | [poll id=226] |
| Daniel Peterson/John Dehlin Rumored Attack Letter | |
| Ralph Hancock/Joanna Brooks Mormon Liberalism drama | |
| Pantspocalypse | |
Biggest Soapbox commenter.
| Jon | [poll id=227] |
| Will | |
| Dan | |
| Nick Literski | |
| Henry | |
| R Gary | |
Commenter that started the most arguments
| DKL | [poll id=228] |
| Dan | |
| Will | |
| Jon | |
Most missed personality on the Bloggernacle:
| Steve Evans | [poll id=229] |
| Scott B | |
| Adam F | |
| The Faithful Dissident | |
Write-in Tarefic category:
| BCC – “Great post” or “Thank you” | [poll id=230] |
| Biggest Cray-Cray Lunatic Commenter Who Isn’t a Troll: Weston Krogstadt Rules! | |
| Worst Comments: Facebook comments on the Pants page. | |
Wheat & Tares 
Me starting the most arguments. That’s a bunch of B.S.
This might just be me, but the best solo blog and worst Mormon internet drama polls don’t appear to allow votes. They just show results with everything blank.
Also, when I tried to vote in the write-in category, the poll returned an error saying I could make a maximum of one choice.
#1: 🙂
@3 I meant to add that at the end.
Keepapitchinin for best solo blog (the voting buttons did not work for me on that one).
Polls are now fixed.
Thanks for putting this together guys, it is a lot of work.
“Polls are now fixed.”
That was my intent. I wear that title with a badge of honor.
There seems to be a duplicate in the best book review section: JI’s roundtable on BY is listed twice.
ZD is misspelled, and a preview link is missing on best doctrinal post.
love the categories! it wouldn’t let me vote on 5 topics though- can you fix that?
Aw, the best commenters I nominated didn’t make the list.
Nat, I looked and didn’t see any other nominations. Who did you nominate?
Brad, I double-checked ZD, and I think it’s spelled right.
CrazyWoman, which polls had a problem? I checked after Hawk fixed them, and thought they looked ok.
Ben, the Turner Bio had 2 different authors….
Aaron, you’re welcome. Obviously the quality control could have been better, but we’re trying.
I think everything’s been fixed (I added a preview for the missing Doctrinal.)
I nominated Rune and Kimberly (both homebased at fmh)
MH: the BY roundtable had like 8 different authors (notice the et. al. in the author listing), but they were all part of one larger series. If you wanted to single out one post, then you shouldn’t have listed one link that included all of them (including the other link you included).
The BY roundtable had 10 authors, 11 if you count Turner’s response.
re 10,
Brad, I corrected the spelling for Zelophehad’s Daughters in the poll.
Need more Mormon Stories Sunday School representation!
You forgot to include the Cultural Hall podcast on here! It’s my absolute favorite Mormon podcast.
What about rationalfaiths.com for best new blog… we would love a hat tip.
19, 20
Michael, Paul
I just checked the nominations posts from the past two weeks…didn’t seem like anyone nominated the Cultural Hall or Rational Faiths.
I definitely think that there were several great things from 2012 that were missed in the nominations process — we’ll have to work on a better process for getting the word out.
21. Bummer! I should have been dialed in. I think we can still catch up in the voting for rationalfaiths – we have a good following! 😉
I would vote for Rational Faiths! Consider this my write-in vote. 🙂
Me too for Rational Faiths. 😉 Definitely my favorite new blog of the year!
I object to Overheard in the Ward having more votes than Expert Textperts on the grounds that it hasn’t updated since like October. Also, as I have two posts nominated for funniest the votes should be combined so I don’t split my own vote (plus I’m badly losing even then so I need the help)
I object to Overheard in the Ward getting more votes than Expert Textperts because Expert Textperts is far funnier! I LOL’d several times. Food flew out of my mouth. This happened.
A terrific new blog absent from the voting is :
Rational Faiths
hawlkgrrrl: I couldn’t agree more, but it would have seemed boastful to say that about my own blog :). Also, Overheard is only a “blog” in the loosest sense; it’s more a quote submission board and thus should at least be moved to its own category. And Sistas in Zion, which I admit I don’t really follow, should likewise be recategorized as “funniest podcast that has a blog link to it” because 1. the “bloggish” part of Sistas, the text and images, are manifestly not that funny, and 2. I can’t be expected to compete with full audio.
Thus we see that my competition is disqualified on technical grounds and that Expert Textperts is now the clear frontrunner for funniest blog.
Okay, so having read a little more Sistas, I guess some its non-podcast posts are kind of funny. But I maintain that it functions largely as a portal to outside, non-blog content such as Youtube images, and much of its content is technically ineligible for “blog” status. Hey, quiet you, I’m not bitter at all.
Is it too late then to be added to the list?
Here’s my write in for rationalfaiths.com being the best new blog of 2012. I seen it didn’t make it on the list; oh well. Is it too late for it to be added?
I doubt that the permas are going to add new items to the list, but I do think that the several comments that have been made will probably be taken into consideration somehow.
@Andrew, that’s the best news I’ve heard all day!
GO RATIONAL FAITHS!
Best new blog rationalfaiths.com for sure needs to be added!
I am doing a write-in vote for rationalfaiths.com for the best new blog of 2012.
Where is rationalfaiths.com? I offer my comment as a write in for rationalfaiths.com
RationalFaiths.com FTW!! Here’s my write-in for best new blog of 2012!!
RationalFaiths.com definitely deserves to be one of the choices for best new blogs
I want to have a write on for best new blog.
Rationalfaiths.com
Here’s my write in vote for rationalfaiths.com
And you guys totally overlooked athoughtfulfaith.org!
Rationalfaiths best new blog 2012!!
It’s a shame that you guys didn’t nominate during the 2 weeks of nominations. We’ll try to do a better job of getting the word out next year!
I can’t believe http://www.mormonchronicle.com wasn’t included on any of these lists 😦
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