Best of '22: Icon Nominations
ICON NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED.
Welcome to the main event of Best of '22 where people nominate their favorite icons, organized by maker, from the year 2022!
Nominations are now closed and voting will take place over on DreamWidth.
RULES
The Basics
→ Makers put their own names forward. You cannot put forward another maker's name for them.
→ Makers should start a new comment thread with their username and the journal where they post their icons in the body of the comment. If you have a DreamWidth account, please participate in our community
bestof_icons over there!
→ Respond to maker comments with icons they wish to nominate as that maker's Best of '22.
→ This post and all other Best of '22 posts will be left public indefinitely.
Maker Comments - CLOSED
→ Maker comments can be put forward for 10 days. After the 10th, no more maker comments will be accepted.
→ Make sure to put your username first in the comment and also a link to where you post your icons. If you are in a shared community, please note that in your comment and provide a link to your maker tag if you have one!
→ Feel free to write other things in the comment! For instance, what sort of style you think you have, what fandoms you focused on, techniques you worked on through the year.
→ Please do not, however, talk up or down individual icons.
Nominations - CLOSED
→ Nominations will be accepted for two weeks - until the 15th. Replies will then be frozen while your mod scrambles to put together voting.
→ Icons may be hotlinked from the maker's original post unless the maker says in their comment that it is not okay to do so.
→ If you can, please reupload icons that use photobucket, imgbb, or imgprx to imgur or another site, or others (including your mod) may be unable to see it. I will try to confirm the sources as nominations come in but please check. We had issues prior years in particular with the imgprx and imgbb sources using temporary links that would expire.
→ Nominations should have the icon's image in it (don't just leave a link).
→ You aren't required to say anything other than the image, but it's nice to explain what you like about the icon you chose! What made it stand out to you?
→ You may nominate up to 5 comments per maker. You can either put them in separate comments or all in one. If you nominate over 5 icons, you will be asked to choose only 5 to go through to voting.
→ All nominated icons must be from 2022. If a maker posts icons from contests and the like that were made in 2022 but only posted in their community in 2023, that is alright as long as it is specified that they were made in 2022.
→ Try to nominate for multiple people, including makers you don't know! You can even nominate for fandoms you don't know. Sometimes an outsider's perspective can be fresh and interesting!
→ NSFW nominations should be warned for.
IMPORTANT!
→ If someone nominates an icon for you that you know doesn't fit - either it wasn't made by you, wasn't made in 2022 or for some other reason is ineligible, PLEASE PLEASE leave a comment in response to the nomination stating which icon is ineligible!
→ Nominations are not screened this year, but please nominate icons based on your decision (and not whether or not someone else has already nominated them).
→ When alerted, the mod will make note of the ineligible nomination.
Voting
→ Voting will run approximately from the day the first poll is posted until 5 days after the final poll is posted. Voting will take place on our DreamWidth account!
→ Each maker will get their own poll.
→ If tiebreakers are necessary, they will run for two days.
Winners
→ The winning icons will be announced all together and compiled into a lovely shiny post.
And... go!