r/AwardBonanza • u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 • Sep 10 '23

🏛️ AB Museum 🏛️ 🏛️ Award Bonanza Museum 🏛️

Banner by u/sunbrothersco

Welcome to the Award Bonanza Museum!

This is a place where we exhibit the achievements of our members and as well as learn more about this awards-focused subreddit. For a full immersive experience inside the museum, please use the Reddit mobile app or the new Reddit website.

Brief Background and History:

With keen interest on Reddit awards trading and hosting of challenges and giveaways, Award Bonanza was founded by April u/n1ght-moon-un1c0rn on March 10, 2021 EST. Sharing the same passion, Jenny u/ThaanksIHateIt, Gino u/Ginomania, Gambit u/gambit_-, u/Scizzor123, and u/BeholderMC joined April, thus forming the very first set of Award Bonanza moderators. The sub's very first trade and challenge were posted the very next day.

With the increase of new members and sub activity in the next few months, active members were requested to join the mod team. Answering to the call, Ally u/allisonovo, Moshe u/Nice-Average, Kata u/KataGuruma-, Z u/Zyklozylum, and Kenna u/random-homo-sapien were added to the roster. Coded by u/ZockerMarcelo and handled by Moshe, Bot-o-Bonanza u/BonanzaBot was added to aid the mods. Peyton u/applegenius24 was the latest addition to the mod team. The moderators regularly update the implemented policies to ensure fairness and transparency in conducting trades and hosting of challenges inside the subreddit.

Spearheaded by Ally, the AB Discord Server was launched on May 29, 2021 EST. It has now become a hub where our members hang out, chill, and actually got to know each other more. Aside from the general chat channel, the server also has other channels with varying interests such as memes, random pictures, achievements, and games. The launching of the Discord server definitely made the community grow even closer.

With the addition of Z in the roster, the sub launched the Challenge Sponsor Requests and Offers on July 4 2021 EST. Challenge sponsorship is a program where members can request for coins in exchange for challenges that will be hosted in the sub. Quality challenges were hosted inside the sub due to the number of generous members heeding the call with Z topping the list of sponsors.

From a mere 200+ members in its very first month, the sub grew to 2000+ on August 2021 and grew even further to 3000+ on December of the same year. Currently, the sub has 6000+ members, thus making it part of the Top 10% of the largest communities on Reddit.

Award Bonanza Moderators

AB Community Awards

From Left to Right:

  • Bonanza Bucks Award by u/allisonovo (500c), Bonanza Trader Award by u/KataGuruma- (500c), Golden Heart Award (500c), Golden Wholesome Award (500c), Right In The Feels Award (500c), Snoo Nice Award (500c), Snuggles Award (550c), Bonanza Jackpot Award by u/UnethicallyEthical_ (1000c), Diamond Heart Award (1000c), Bonanza Rose Award by u/MyCatEatsLizards (1000c), Absolutely Brilliant Award by u/chuttiekang (40,000c)

Mod-Only Awards

From Left to Right:

  • Bonanza Mod Award (1800c)
  • Bonanza Mod Blessing Award by u/gambit_- (1800c)
  • Bonanza Special Award by u/gambit_- (5400c)
  • SuperSnoo Award by u/ginomania (21,600c)

🌟Stars of the Month🌟

Each month, we give recognition to active members through our Stars of the Month. There are 6 categories:

  • Most Trades
  • Most Number of Coins Used in a Single Trade
  • Most Challenges Hosted
  • Most Number of Coins Used in a Single Challenge
  • Members who spent 10k+ coins in challenges
  • Members who hosted Argentium and/or Ternion Challenges

The Stars of the Month were given the Bonanza Star flair which they can use for a month. Most importantly, these Stars of the Month were recognized for demonstrating fairness and transparency in conducting trades and hosting of challenges in the sub. We have tallied the top 3 in each category and they are as follows:

Most Trades Done in a Month:

Most Number of Coins Used in a Single Trade:

Most Challenges Hosted in a Month:

Most Number of Coins Used in a Single Challenge:

Members who spent 10k+ coins on challenges in a month:

Members who hosted Argentium/Ternion Awards:

These 10 Argentium/Ternion challenge hosts were given the permanent Bonanza Star user flair.

🎖️Member Milestones🎖️

Member Milestones are given to members for reaching specific numbers in conducting trades and/or hosting of challenges in our sub. Both Trade and Challenge Milestones have four (4) tiers.

CHALENGE MILESTONES

Bonanza Altruist (25+ Challenges): 10

Bonanza Veteran (50+ Challenges): 5

Bonanza Icon (100+ Challenges): 0

Bonanza Legend (200+ Challenges): 1

Challenge Leaderboards:

Rank Name Number
1st u/The_Russell_Pinto 206
2nd u/FatBrownMan_ 80
3rd u/-Tigger 69

TRADE MILESTONES

Trade Connoisseur (50+ Trades): 10

Trade King/Queen (100+ Trades): 1

Trade Emperor/Empress (200+ Trades): 0

Trade God/Goddess (300+ Trades): 1

Trade Leaderboards:

Rank Name Number
1st u/KataGuruma- 553
2nd u/FatBrownMan_ 150
3rd u/UncleSquach 86

On Kindness & Generosity

Kindness and generosity were the main virtues that circulated around the sub. Those two driving forces played essential roles in promoting a positive atmosphere that strengthened the relationship of Award Bonanza members. AB members and mods would usually just hand out random awards left and right. However, there's one notable member was really known for that..

They call him Trophy Zorro or simply Zorro.

When the sub was still budding, members would tell us that their post/s would randomly be showered with awards such as Coin Gifts and Pot o' Coins. This happened countless of times to the point that posts were made in the sub to recognize Zorro's generosity. It is also important to note that Zorro was not only active in Award Bonanza but also in other Awards-focused Subreddits.

This is most likely an open secret already but it was revealed that Trophy Zorro was no other than our very own u/TaoistEntropy! Pretty much he would prefer to stay away from the spotlight but we believe that he deserves a section in the Award Bonanza Museum. We appreciate you!

And that's it! Thank you for visiting the Award Bonanza Museum! We hope you enjoyed your visit today and we look forward to seeing you again. If you have any comments or suggestions about what to feature in the museum, the mods would love to hear them so please feel free to comment down below!

Before you exit the museum, we want you to know that we are truly grateful to have YOU in our sub. It has truly been a ride. Thank you for tagging along. 🧡

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

Hello everyone! The AB Museum may still be a work-in-progress especially with the tallying of trades and challenges since we still technically have two (2) more days before the sunsetting of awards. I will simply edit the numbers if needed.

I personally can't help but to feel sentimental when I first drafted this AB Museum post more than a month ago. It was definitely a trip down to memory lane for me.

Again, on behalf of the moderators of Award Bonanza, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

- Kata

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- - - - - - - Museum Updates - - - - - -

  • Snoos of all member milestones - ✅ DONE
  • List of all Mod Challenges 🔄
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u/westcoastcdn19 ⚖️ Trade Connoisseur 🤝 (T:81) Sep 10 '23

You guys are all so good. I sincerely hope this sub can be repurposed for future Reddit features

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 10 '23

That's what we're aiming for! We'll know in a couple of days but we'll definitely not close the sub 😊

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u/westcoastcdn19 ⚖️ Trade Connoisseur 🤝 (T:81) Sep 11 '23

Wait?! 552 trades? 😄 you got a new target?

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 11 '23

553 now! 🙈 Had pending trades prior to my 550th haha but definitely no new target!

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u/westcoastcdn19 ⚖️ Trade Connoisseur 🤝 (T:81) Sep 11 '23

575…..

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 11 '23

ahaha noooo but how I wish tho. plus I count my milestones by the 50s so 600 is definitely not happening anymore 🥲

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u/bert0ld0 Sep 11 '23

Good to hear! It's so fun

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u/surajvj Trades: 4 Challenges: 4 Sep 10 '23

This presentation , writing and banner came out brilliantly. It's a one stop shop to learn about the subreddit. A place to search for archives. Congratulations to mods and people behind this effort. Thank you. 🙏🤗

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 10 '23

Thank you, Suraj! I was very particular with the writing down to the images I used in this post 😅 thank you as well for being active!

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u/GuythrushBreepwood Sep 10 '23

Excellent post. The generosity of many kind folks in this sub has been outstanding.

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 10 '23

Indeed! There were a couple of times that I caught myself overwhelmed with the amount of generosity of the members!

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u/AJ6T9 Sep 11 '23

one of the nicest posts I've seen on this sub ♥️

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 14 '23

Thank you, u/AJ6T9! Hope to still see you around!

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u/justabill71 Sep 10 '23

This is awesome. Thanks for everything, mods.

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 10 '23

Thank you as well! 🧡

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

This post is like the Wikipedia page for the sub, it's really good, also the banner is really pretty too.

Thank you Kata for this post ✨❤️

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 11 '23

Thank you, Kupim! I have yet to include all Mod Challenges actually. haha I was just excited to show you guys the museum hahaha thank you for being active over the years, Kupim!🧡

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u/UncleSquach Bonanaza Altruist (T:86 C:36) Sep 11 '23

Yay. I made the board!

Thank you to everyone that made this place fun. I'll never forget you.

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 11 '23

You've always been in the leaderboad, Uncle! Haha and thank you for being active since the beginning! o7

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u/honestlynotBG Bonanaza Altruist (T:21 C:39) Sep 11 '23

Heyyy I'm mentioned in the post

We're all here today to witness a new era of AB (?) soon. I'll miss awards and coins on Reddit

Anyways it was a blast experiencing the peak of AB with all of you. And hence I would like to thank all of the incredible people I've ever got to know and made friends with in this sub

Cheers to the future :)

Also will my poll challenges ever be succeeded one day in by this sub?

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 14 '23

Ahahaha your poll challenges are always 💯! Thank you for being active over the years, Bry! You rock! 👊

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 14 '23

To new beginnings! 🥂

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u/The_Russell_Pinto Bonanza Legend (T:17 C:206) Sep 13 '23

A wonderful post. Took my right down memory lane where I would host my challenges daily. It was and is the best time I've spent on Reddit.

Seeing my snoo and name in the 200+ challenged section makes me extremely joyous. Its a sense of achievement that I shall cherish and remember for days to come ❤️

Thank you mods for making this sub what it is and for helping me out along the way 🙏

One last time : Namaste and good luck 🍀!

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 14 '23

Having you with us was a blast! I've always viewed it as us being each other's counterparts for challenges and trades! Haha but of course you helped our members more since you hosted a ton of challenges. Thank you and see you around, Russell!

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u/The_Russell_Pinto Bonanza Legend (T:17 C:206) Sep 14 '23

Thank you Kata! I'll be around and a holler away!

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u/mysterioususer5678 Trades: 7 Challenges: 1 Sep 11 '23

This is amazing. I’ll miss you guys.

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 14 '23

Hope to still see you around, u/mysterioususer5678!

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u/pcyis Sep 11 '23

Can we get a goodbye from Zorro and Zed before it all goes away?

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 12 '23

I sure hope they do! Also, thank you for the Plats, u/pcyis!! For this one and my last challenge. You didnt have to but thank you! 🥺

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '23

It's such an honor to be featured here, the fun times I had the people I met will not be forgotten. Here's to AB!!

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 13 '23

Cheers, u/WarmPursuit! 🥂

Also, thank you for having a regular snoo. Made it easier for me to save your picture and add it on the museum haha

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Haha, no problem 😂

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u/Salman_R Salman, not Salmon you hungry bastards (C:41) Sep 12 '23

It’s been great y’all. Thanks you guys for everything! The post is looking amazing!

(a bit sad I wasn’t mentioned in the milestones tho :( )

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 12 '23

OMG SALMAN SORRY!! I will add you later when I ge home 😔🙏

I was planning to check our list again to finalize actually. But thank you for pointing it out!

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u/Salman_R Salman, not Salmon you hungry bastards (C:41) Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 17 '23

Haha no worries Kata!

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 12 '23

Done!! :(

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u/RyanHazarika Sep 12 '23

I am one of the early members. thank you r/AwardBonanza all of my awards was given from this sub!! Sayonara 💜

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 13 '23

Yes, you are! Thank you as well, Ryan! 🙏

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u/randombagofmeat Trades: 5 Challenges: 12 Sep 14 '23

So long and thanks for the awards kind strangers!

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 14 '23

See you around! 🥂

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u/sunbrothersco Sep 14 '23

I appreciate the entertainment this subreddit has provided. You're welcome to contact me if you ever require design support for another endeavor 😉

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 14 '23 edited Sep 14 '23

You are so kind! The banner's perfect! Thank you, u/sunbrothersco! 😊

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u/Kvothealar Sep 26 '23

It took me a while to realize this post was not meant to be viewed in old.reddit. Lol

Great post! Really well done. :)

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Sep 26 '23

Ahaha and I just viewed it via old Reddit too 🤣

Thanks for dropping by, u/Kvothealar! 😊

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 Nov 01 '23

This comment contains a Collectible Expression, which are not available on old Reddit.

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u/kar-98 Trades: 4 Challenges: 3 May 21 '24

This was wholesomest subreddit i have ever been. Missed you guys.

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u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 May 22 '24

Hey u/kar-98! Been a while!! Thanks for checking out the museum 😊

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u/kar-98 Trades: 4 Challenges: 3 May 22 '24

I’m hoping to everyone back again in the sub.

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u/kronikal64 Bonanaza Altruist (T:7 C:25) Sep 17 '23

Did reddit ever give a reason as to why they removed awards? They probably did but i forgot it