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.
30
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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
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.)
25
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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)
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.
24
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Best of Code Review 2016
Best Newcomer (Answer) category: Best answer by a user who had not posted an answer before 2016.
20
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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
20
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Best of Code Review 2016
Diplomat: Tough advice in an answer, delivered in the most tactful manner.
19
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Best of Code Review 2014
Diplomat category: Tough advice in an answer, delivered in the most tactful manner
19
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Best of Code Review 2016
Best Newcomer (Question) category: Best question by a user who had not posted a question before 2016.
18
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Best of Code Review 2014
Jamalizer* Award category, for question edits that turned bad questions into good ones.
*see Jamalized
18
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Best of Code Review 2015
Lots of Laughs: Answer that makes the best use of humor to illustrate a point.
18
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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)
16
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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
16
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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
16
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Best of Code Review 2015
Diplomat: Tough advice in an answer, delivered in the most tactful manner
16
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Best of Code Review 2015
Exterminator: Answer that points out the most interesting obscure bug in the original code.
15
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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 ...
15
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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.)
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, ...
- 15.8k
14
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Best of Code Review 2014
Stack Snippets category: The question, answer, or edit that makes the best use of Stack Snippets
14
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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.)
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?
- 28.1k
13
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Best of Code Review 2014
MathJax category: Question, answer, or edit that makes the best use of MathJax
13
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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 ...
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 ...
- 17k
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 ...
- 20.3k
12
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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 ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible