34
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Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Lots of Laughs category: Answer that makes the best use of humor to illustrate a point.
Community wiki
30
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Exterminator category: Answer that points out the most interesting obscure bug in the original code
Community wiki
26
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Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Best Title category: The question with the best title. (If the title was later added by someone else, be sure to credit the user who edited the title.)
Community wiki
25
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Night and Day category: The most dramatic improvement (nominate both the question with the most hopeless code and the answer that cleans it up the best)
Community wiki
24
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Best of Code Review 2015
Best Newcomer (Answer) category: Best answer by a user who had not posted an answer before 2015.
Community wiki
24
votes
Best of Code Review 2016
Best Newcomer (Answer) category: Best answer by a user who had not posted an answer before 2016.
Community wiki
20
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
Not As Easy As It Looks category: Question that superficially appears simple but turns out to be more difficult than expected
Community wiki
20
votes
Best of Code Review 2016
Diplomat: Tough advice in an answer, delivered in the most tactful manner.
Community wiki
19
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Best of Code Review 2014
Diplomat category: Tough advice in an answer, delivered in the most tactful manner
Community wiki
19
votes
Best of Code Review 2016
Best Newcomer (Question) category: Best question by a user who had not posted a question before 2016.
Community wiki
18
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
Jamalizer* Award category, for question edits that turned bad questions into good ones.
*see Jamalized
18
votes
Best of Code Review 2015
Lots of Laughs: Answer that makes the best use of humor to illustrate a point.
Community wiki
18
votes
Best of Code Review 2015
Night and Day: The most dramatic improvement (nominate both the question with the most hopeless code and the answer that cleans it up the best)
Community wiki
16
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
Rags to Riches category: The rags-to-riches question that took the worst original code and made it shine like a polished gem
Community wiki
16
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
Gordian Knot Untied category: Most justified advice in an answer for taking a completely different approach from the code in the original question
Community wiki
16
votes
Best of Code Review 2015
Diplomat: Tough advice in an answer, delivered in the most tactful manner
Community wiki
16
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Best of Code Review 2015
Exterminator: Answer that points out the most interesting obscure bug in the original code.
Community wiki
15
votes
Best of Code Review 2015
Best shortening
Of course I am not talking about CodeGolf, this category aims to reward answers that given an absurdly long and bloated code in the question, shorten it significantly while retaining ...
Community wiki
15
votes
Best of Code Review 2016
Best Title category: The question with the best title. (If the title was later added by someone else, be sure to credit the user who edited the title.)
Community wiki
15
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Accepted
Best of Code Review 2016 - Best Title category
I'm nominating the following question:
The right way to hang a man
While the title could be considered somewhat dark, it's still a very unique and clever way of titling a question about Hangman, ...
14
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
Stack Snippets category: The question, answer, or edit that makes the best use of Stack Snippets
Community wiki
14
votes
Best of Code Review 2015
Best Title category: The question with the best title. (If the title was later added by someone else, be sure to credit the user who edited the title.)
Community wiki
14
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Best of Code Review 2015 - Best Newcomer (answer) category
Nominating this answer to Easier user input in C++
There is more topics covered in the answer than lines of code in the question. All thoroughly developed, educational, and to the point. What more?
13
votes
Best of Code Review 2014
MathJax category: Question, answer, or edit that makes the best use of MathJax
Community wiki
13
votes
Best of Code Review 2014 - Lots of Laughs category
Simon on 'Team Split' problem
One word:
Rewafadhabihlgdity
Okay, maybe "one" more word.
Dontyoufinditabithardtoreadtext/codethatdoesntcontainanyspacesandappropriatepunctuation?
These two ...
Community wiki
13
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Accepted
Best of Code Review 2014 - Best Title category
Regularity in the “Rusty Towel of Mutual understanding”
Author: Rolfl (revision 3) | answered
This question also went to the Hot Network Questions and into the weekly CR newsletter the week it was ...
13
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Best of Code Review 2015 - Exterminator category
This answer by Quuxplusone to "Hybrid Lock Implementation (C++)" points out a nearly invisibly typo that breaks the whole thing.
In the question, OP meant to write ...
13
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Best of Code Review 2016 - Best Title category
One of the questions that I think drew the most attention this year due to its title is:
How clean is my snow?
As evidenced by the 10,000+ views and multiple answers, the title, which accurately ...
12
votes
Best of Code Review 2014 - Lots of Laughs category
I just realized that meta answers were eligible for nomination too, so...
Mat's Mug on Can I put my code on a third party site and link to the site in my question?
Why? Because cats and the internet ...
Community wiki
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible