Confusion is annoying, and a person does not always realize that they
are confused. I recently posted a "congratulations" to the person I assumed would win the current(?) contest, because he was so far ahead it might only be mathematically possible for someone else to win, and because you never know whether you'll be around tomorrow with life being what it is. My post was deleted. I thought, "WTF?!" - but then saw that it was because I congratulated a member from another forum
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Three observations:
I like
contests that, if run here, guarantee that a winner will be a member
here, even if that means smaller prizes due to 27
contests instead of one big one. I am not a registered member of 27 cannabis-related forums, lol; I am a registered member of... this one.
In addition to the above "I like..." I also like
contests that
do not combine forum activity with YouTube activity. Otherwise, it's almost a virtual certainty that the winner will be the YouTube user. Many people user their real name for their YouTube name. They're all linked to people's Google accounts. And
cannabis gardening is illegal in many locations! That's enough to keep a lot of people from posting videos of them doing so, due to
paranoia common sense. Which kind of means those people won't win. Might as well run a contest in which the winner will be chosen from entrants who have brown eyes; it's a bit unfair unless you can ensure that the only people you are offering the contest to are ones with brown eyes. This is considered to be a relatively large cannabis-related Internet forum. It has around 158,000 members. YouTube has... approximately 2,000,000,000 members. I've been known to take on an unfair challenge "or two." But I'm not going to
run in a ¼-mile race when my opponent is driving a top fuel dragster. It would be pointless.