This should have been D-Man or IDR. I got alot of the "friendly vote" from people who post often in my threads in Potluck, Sports, Music and the CL, but I was only a Mod for the last 6 months of the year.
The pattern I see is the tenured Mods don't get the credit they deserve. JackHammer wasn't even on this list, and Dave only got 1 vote. Before he lost his Internet connection, I would have gone Dave, most likely.