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All respect to any suggestions made, we do like the feedback, but it's heartbreaking to see good friends get tense.
I would like to take a moment to explain our rationale, since there are good points to be made on both sides of the issue.
Essentially, it might be more fair to prevent previous winners from reentering the
contests for a period of time, but this has to be balanced against the decreased participation that would result.
We've been through periods, though not recently, where we really needed to improve the quality and quality of entrees so its true that we may have a bias against restrictions.
That said, we feel we've arrived at the right balance by limiting only the reentry for Member of the Month to once per six months. This, because the Member contest is inherently more subjective and popularity oriented than the Nug or Plant
contests are. Also, when the decision boils down to more or less variety of green porn, it's an easy decision.
To the staff, the goal of the Plant and Nug
contests is about the quality of green
We want these things to be fun, and for the
membership base to have a chance to see as much of the "best of the best" as possible.
Also, we struggled even when we made the decision to allow sponsoring, for fear that this might add excess competitiveness, since we were raising the stakes by adding prize packages.
This public service announcement is just meant to let our friends know the background why our contest policies evolved as they did
Please feel free to comment, in our feedback forum, with any suggestions you may have for the site, we do value your feedback, but please help me get this thread back on track