Bestof2011staff: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Bestof2011staff is and who runs it

Bestof2011staff is the program name behind a page WFUV titles Best of 2011: Staff Picks. WFUV is a public radio station based in New York, and its site presents itself around music discovery, with playlists, shows, hosts and a podcast lineup. Among the programs on this site it belongs to the best-of family: rather than a single night's award, it is a periodic presentation in which the station's staff selections are put before the public, and WFUV runs it on a public-vote mechanic.

Voting happens on wfuv.org itself. There is no third-party voting service between the supporter and the ballot; the address is wfuv.org/bestof2011staff, on the same domain that carries the station's music, news and sports sections, its membership and support pages, and its events listings. The page excerpt from the 2011 edition describes the selections with the line about the albums the station spun right round, right round, which points to music albums as the 2011 subject matter.

The market is the station's own: the published material places the program in New York, and no city, county or neighborhood is named for it, so the page treats the market as New York statewide under the WFUV masthead. The facts below are the ones the organizer's material supports.

The dated record: 25 editions and the gaps in the run

WFUV's program carries confirmed editions in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. An unbroken annual stretch runs from 2000 through 2019; then the calendar shows two gaps, with 2020 and 2023 missing from the run. The sequence continues through 2026, which is the most recent confirmed edition, and 2027 is the next expected cycle.

The 2011 edition is the one whose page is directly described in the organizer's material. Its byline reads Best of 2011: Staff Picks by WFUV Staff, published December 4, 2011, which places that edition's page in December of its named year and attributes the selections to the station's own staff.

Beyond the year list and the 2011 byline, the organizer has printed little about timing. WFUV names no opening day and no closing day for the ballot it serves, publishes no roster of categories for the current cycle, and states nothing about repeat visits within a cycle or about eligibility. For those facts a reader should confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since details of that kind can only come from WFUV's own published page for the cycle in question.

How a supporter votes on the WFUV ballot today

The supporter's entire experience happens on wfuv.org, the station's own domain. Open the ballot address wfuv.org/bestof2011staff directly. Because the host is the organizer itself rather than a balloting service, there are no platform rounds, no platform login wall and no platform-branded pages in the published material; what the station's page presents is what the supporter works with.

The 2011 edition shows what a cycle can look like: a staff picks presentation, credited to WFUV Staff, organized around the albums the station played during the year. A supporter arriving in a later cycle should read the live page on arrival, because the presentation is the station's choice each time and no description of the current ballot's controls has been published outside that page.

The vote itself is cast on the ballot page under the public-vote mechanic the program runs. What happens after submission, whether a confirmation appears and whether one may come back on a later day of the same cycle, is left unstated by the organizer. No per-person ceiling, no daily return allowance and no eligibility requirement appear anywhere the station publishes, and no summary of those rules exists anywhere else for this ballot. The sequence a supporter follows is therefore short: open the address, read the cycle's presentation, cast the vote as the page allows, and note any deadline the page itself states.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

Bestof2011staff is one of several best-of programs recorded for New York on this site, but it answers to a different kind of publisher than the rest. Its neighbours here are Best of Brooklyn, Best of Hudson Valley, a citywide Best of New York City program, Best of Queens, Best of the Bronx and Best of Westchester. Each of those is a geographic best-of covering a borough, a county region or the city as a whole. This program is instead a radio station's own annual presentation, anchored to the WFUV masthead and to the station's music coverage.

That difference shapes the ballot in practical ways. The geographic programs are organized around places, so a supporter's eligibility question usually turns on location. Here the organizing idea is the station's staff selections and the public's vote on them, and the market is the station's listening audience in New York rather than a bounded city or county. The host is also different in kind: wfuv.org carries the ballot directly, while geographic best-of programs are typically run by magazines or local publishers under their own brands.

Readers comparing the six pages will notice this is the program whose edition history reaches furthest back, with confirmed years from 2000 onward, and the only one of the group whose named edition page is a staff picks list rather than a place-based readers' poll.

Strengthening support within the WFUV ballot's rules

Because the ballot is served by the station itself at wfuv.org/bestof2011staff, any push for support should send people to that exact address and let the page's own controls do the rest. The 2011 staff picks page shows the audience this program speaks to: listeners who follow the station's music coverage and care about the albums its staff highlighted. Outreach built on that audience, station listeners first, matches the ballot better than a generic blast.

Two cautions follow from what the organizer has and has not published. The station has printed no rules text with the ballot, so nothing published tells a supporter how many votes are allowed per person or per day; the live page governs. And because no rules exist in published form, a push that looks like irregular activity carries risk that no published allowance would cover. The station's name is on every page of the ballot, and its terms of use and privacy pages sit in the same site footer.

For tactics that stay clear of any organizer's rule text, see our votes guide, and for what purchased support can and cannot promise on a ballot like this one, our award-votes page describes the general service without speaking for WFUV.