[Pops]

So who was your favorite poster in 2012?

[Rod_Cloutier]

The:

Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion:
a study in global systemic collapse.
By David Korowicz

Was the best essay I've read here this year. (The poll above seems confusing- unsure how to indicate this article as my vote above?)

We've seen more spam here on this site this year than any previous year. So the Anti-spam thread would be my vote for #2.

[dorlomin]

Id nominate Rockdoc for best poster. Very informative on oil.

[AdTheNad]

I nominate pstarr, for continually doing battle with the cornucopians, and in a humorous way.

If we can nominate 2 people, I'd also nominate Keith_McClary. I almost always agree with his posts, and find them interesting and often informative.

[dolanbaker]

"here comes the double dip" is great entertainment

[Quinny]

Double Dip
LENR
Euro Thread
Today I did....
OF2's discovery thread (where did it go) for proving how discoveries are not really going to meet demand

Pstarr like AdtheNad
RockDoc for the Oil industry Award
Ralfy for calmly plugging away at cornies without any hissy fits
Human for returning ????

[Pops]

OK I blew it, too many polls in one! The Best Thread voting is here.

[TheAntiDoomer]

Ugh. Seriously Pstarr? What about Rockdock?

[TheAntiDoomer]

Also Pops, without Oilfinder2, this thread is a joke.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheAntiDoomer', 'A')lso Pops, without Oilfinder2, this thread is a joke.

[evilgenius]

You are the best poster, Pops. This year your posting of various topics of interest has done wonders to keep this site lively when sometimes participation has been low. Others have done the same in years past, like Graeme who has continued without a let down, but you stepped in this year with a timely selection of topics and interjected with opinion of your own that has kept intelligent conversation going within.

[TheAntiDoomer]

I voted for the generic one as a write in for OILFINDER2

[Tanada]

Outcast_Searcher, because when he replies his answers make me think. I don't necessarily agree, but I have to think through what he writes before I can make that decision, where many of the posters on this and other groups allow snap decisions due to lack of depth.

[Plantagenet]

I voted for Daniel Plainview last year, and he's still great but this year with the controversy growing over frakking and its potential to unlock more domestic oil production increases from the Bakken and other shale oil formations I have to give the edge to Rocdoc.

Rocdoc is smart, articulate, and knows his stuff on oil drilling and the oil biz in general and has the personal experience to back up his points. His posts are well-written, to the point, and entertainingly feisty.

[Narz]

I vote for Graeme.

[argyle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'Y')ou are the best poster, Pops. This year your posting of various topics of interest has done wonders to keep this site lively when sometimes participation has been low. Others have done the same in years past, like Graeme who has continued without a let down, but you stepped in this year with a timely selection of topics and interjected with opinion of your own that has kept intelligent conversation going within.

[SeaGypsy]

I'm going all commie on this one. Some folks here I really like, several enough I endevour to venture stateside for the first time in over 20 years (oh land of my birth...). I appreciate most the humourful, often bone dry wit of cloudy (my ex co-pro in teaching- I quit all such work recently and am now full time logistics. If I had a fave (I don't) it would also be Pops, for same reasons as Pstarr. However- this site is definitely one waay greater than the sum of it's parts.

(Poster most envious of for 2012???- Ibon , then Newfie, Pops, Pstarr)

(Most informative- Pops, Rocdoc, Tanada, OF2 )

(Awe inspiring- Shaved Monkey, Ibon, Pops, Zeyang, and several others in the making.)

In my second big career move since fully grokking peak oil in 2006, I have also married, had (have) 2 exquisite daughters, moved to 3 cities and a village in 2 countries, learned and learned like a freshman on meths. What I appreciate most here is the little sense of virtual community we have here, which goes with me from the jungle to the city, to another city and another jungle. The way we gradually mature and evolve personally having grasped the true fragility of the supposedly a few years ago- 'resilient economy'. Hanging with the crew here who I spent many hours reading well before the economy hid the skids in '08, the prophetic generation- is an honor and a privilege.I hope to see more folks here evolve, create and inspire life change.

[Pops]

Thanks for the kind words everyone, I really am addicted to this place, good thing I don't have a real job!