I would like to add that while I did lobby for votes here and there and used my signature to do so, no one said that wasn't ok. I feel like it helped get this promotion alot of attention!
I only used appropriate opportunities in threads to bring it up, and during that timeframe, I did not post any more frequently than I had been previously or for only that reason.
I'm obviously not the one who decides, but: Your entry and general contest-related behavior (lol) seemed to be acceptable
to me. I went back and reread post #1, and didn't see any kind of restriction that might have applied to you (such as "must have been a member for
n months at the time of contest"). You even got the whole "word" thing (as opposed to word
s ) . I'm not counting the griping, because that might be justified - and happened after the main round of entries/likes-or-not, anyway.
A suggestion to all contest-runners: One thread, open - for however many days you specify - for initial contest entries, followed immediately by a
poll thread for people to do the actual voting in (preferably for ONE person each), no "only missed it by that much, so you're in" last-minute entries because, well, then someone always ends up feeling that
they should have been included, too... A firm cutoff time/date means no question of unfairness, in other words. Clearly stating which clock would be helpful (IOW, we are spread across the planet - and across the time zones, so whether the clock is running on Eastern Standard time, California time (420Magazine as an entity is based there), or the sponsor's home time zone... it should be mentioned so that everyone is "on the same page," so to speak.
The above is just my opinion. I've usually got one
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I'd love to win the prize, but probably won't (especially since I've already started thinking of uses for it related to my upcoming grow journal, lol). Ironically, I kind of figured
@dr.h00k would end up winning when I saw his entry. Ironically because it's he and I in the "tie-breaker." I cannot speak for another, but my
guess is that he wouldn't be bothered by a recount or whatever, and I certainly wouldn't be.
Whatever
@SmokeSara decides is fine with me.
Throw parties, not fits
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