Best Of MetaFilter

The results of the first week of the December Best Posts contest are revealed!

zork 1 dos version by Opossed

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Better late than never. This week featured three winners as well as twenty category winners.

1. A collection of outstanding library Tumblrs by jetlagaddict

2. Happy Zelda Day! megapost by JHarris

3. A collection of longform collections assembled by reenum.

This is the third week of results for our Mefites Choice contest.

Guess The Album Game by shrff (cc by)

1. mannequito made an epic post that serves as a history lesson and homage to the silent/hidden track on albums.

james tiptree award anthology 2 by cdrummbks (cc by)

2. filthy light thief furnishes us with a post covering the history of new wave Sci-Fi writer James Tiptree Jr., and the revelation that eventually came to light about the author.

Get Smart. by Baylee_Farris (cc by)

3. zarq drops a megapost about the comedy spy show Get Smart, featuring every episode on YouTube along with the movies and spin-offs that followed.

1. cthuljew's amazing post about the life and death of the Islamic Golden Age from July 30, 762 to February 13, 1258.

2. Pope Guilty's comprehensive history of Doom post: Twenty Years of Ultra-Violence.

Doom 3: Mancubus by Psycho Al (cc by)

3. daisyk's post People of Color are not an anachronism

Balthazar at the Adoration of the Magi

4. Honorable Mention goes to Going To Maine with their quirky Grandma's GIFT post that caught cortex's eye.

Thanks for all the great posts and great voting and prizes offered. We still have two solid weeks of contest left as well as many month-end competitions going. Go vote for your favorites!

Most every December, MetaFilter throws a best post contest and this year is no different: The MeFites Choice Awards.

Week one has passed and the winners have been announced. Here are the top three posts to MetaFilter according to voting members of the site.

Where My Ladies At? is a post about sexism among scientists that includes this brilliant video response as well as a huge list of female STEM online educators. It was posted by Blasdelb.

A Star Trek video of Picard's crew singing "let it snow" by Gelatin came in second.

And last but not least, the man of twists and turns made a comprehensive post on the state of conspiracy theory culture in America, looking back over 50 years.

We'll continue to post weekly recaps of the winners throughout this month.

Ishi Mural by swirey

We threw a little contest to keep August interesting, giving away some money and prizes to the moderators' favorite posts. There were tons of great stuff to choose from and many are mentioned in the notes for our latest podcast. Check them out and thanks to everyone that participated.