Fast Buds Meme Contest!

@Fast_Buds, not a problem, 🙏😇 that's just me! Happy new year

@BB_UK, Well said! Thanks for bringing your positivity to the community!

@MrHightimes, yo hago lo mismo fumadisimo!!!

@MrHightimes, Nothing like harvesting and smoking a premature plant. Also, it's a good thing only FB strains make people happy during the harvest.

@MrHightimes, hahah so that's your creative process! Good to know =)

@Fast_Buds, i would keep going funny is funny. Cant cap talent like if you could have dave chappelle every week but you say sorry you were here last wee gotta give it to niķi payne instead. Your right about this being fair and it reps your c9mpany so you sh9uld defin8tely have th3 final say aftrr weighing brand vs popularity. I also agree with mouse repeats are blah but sometimes relevant but repeat memers are gold. some of the funniest memes are crude but thats what gets the gutteral reaction. What a beautiful medium or form of art this has become. I check for new ones on here regularly and for sure think some are spot on hilarius

@Fast_Buds, all good points. different audience base, the memes I used to view are from larger meme specific accounts and have massive followings of 120-300K. I can see how some dislike memes and the fast buds page is not in essence a meme page so the disconnect of it all. 62.8k followers with 100 votes is around 0.15% of your base, I would have thought at min 0.5-1% 329-658 of the following base would have participated. Odd metrics. Instagram is truly its own beast.

@m0use, It is complicated for sure, and we don't want it to turn into a popularity contest. Since it's harder to 'rig' votes on IG than it would be here, it's the best way we've come up with, apart from the fact this contest was created in order to have something interactive on our IG as well. That being said, not all the memes we publish on IG are PG13 and under haha, it just depends on the subject matter I guess. The times we do publish the more 'provocative/crude' memes, they don't tend to do well... I guess they are more niche and since we have around 100 people voting each time, not as widely entertaining. That doesn't mean they aren't funny of course! But by votes, they just tend to be for a smaller amount of people.

@Fast_Buds, 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@Fast_Buds, THX ! ✌️

@Fast_Buds, thanks for let me win also in this great contest 💚💚💚

@Fast_Buds, thank you 🙏🏻🙂

@Se7en616, Good luck!!

@m0use, you need to apply for admin on here ahaha. Those 3 contests i dont join in on because i dont need the seeds and rolling stuff haha. So i cant really say something about them. On the other hand GD isnt actively developing the website it seems, just like the request section and people who voted for the npk calculator and such, Which dont get added.😋 I think Fastbuds is doing great with these contests and how they handle the voting. Maybe they can work like some other big companies and let you submit to a special link adress or dropbox where the magic happens behind the curtains haha. That we dont get to see all the memes that got submitted and they can choose the funniest ones. But no matter what, i keep enjoying the contests🙏😀

@DutchGrownGreens, I feel the contests that have the biggest issue with fake accounts is GOTM, DOTM, NOTM. Even when this contest had a written rule saying the limit of 3 memes a month I'm pretty sure users could still upload more if they wanted to. This contest is also harder to troll with that one posted rule saying must have min 3 diaries in total last one no older then 2 months and that its memes not diaries at content. Granted its not hard to fake a bunch of diaries and I have seen a lot of that being done before or users creating a meme diary just for this contest. We need a solution that makes the effort and ease of entering the contest the same, while not imposing so many restrictions on people that they get confused. Still need to have a good system to prevent cheats/spam and give equal opportunities. I like it when a contest just blocks you from entering once your entry/entries are made. I also like a system that problem solves and bit and looks at the account in question and asks is this person real. This did not happen when a spam account won POTM with a blurry shit photo and people where pissed, just makes users not care when the system does not function, why invest your time in a site when its a joke. The majority of this needs to happen in the back end and shit needs to start to be communicated. Fastbuds is one of the good hosts in that they provide a lot of prizes to this site and they tend to communicate major issues. It also helps they own the site as well lol. I'm not saying this contest is a joke, punny in of itself, it just needs a reversion or update to its terms. However in general this site does need a serious rework, that's never likely to happen as fake accounts are still traffic and that's good for business. Meh.

@m0use, maybe they scrapped the rule because the contests then every month troubles again with those fake accounts with fake grows because everyone was limited to 3 memes. Idk though hahah

@Anonymous_2022, Best of luck to you! Thanks for always entering!

@Spliffi, yes please

still in the race 😍

@Majinstatic, in round 3 there is no 4th place, it's battling out for the top 3 slots. The first two whoever wins will be crowned 1st and the loser 2nd. then in the 2nd vote whoever wins will win 3rd and other nothing. I don;t know how they get there in the first place, im guessing the top scores from round 1 and 2 have something to do with it,

@DutchGrownGreens, never seen one, on their page or in contest itself. It's not my point to re-upload something. And tbh I just commented a post about being in competition for 4th place and went out.

@Majinstatic, that one was original in stead of recycled material and liked most by team fastbuds themselves🙏

@NorseGrower, Same things happening in their valentines contest with different players. 1-3 meme or 1 photo max rule needs to be placed to prevent spam and any account that's being considered needs to be looked into for exploitation of contests. lota clicks involved for that though. 🤷

@Majinstatic, I agree with that, I see almost identical memes month after month, and I think it's a pity; but who am I to judge... I put my trust in our "referees", who have the precedents memes in mind and avoid most of the time to make them win twice (or several times...😏)

@Selkot, people with creative flow, will create something anyway. No matter if this is for contest or not. Of course it will reduce the number of memes in total, but quality will raise. And most of us is here for quality over quantity. I would rather had good laugh three times , then see some copy paste behavior from memes sites, just for a price. Then is just pathetic.

@Majinstatic, I fear that this will drastically reduce the number of memes proposed over 30 days, at the risk of discouraging those who have an overflowing imagination, without however counting among the "spammers" who recycle their same memes month after month; someone who seeks to be original could not decently propose more than one per week, that is to say one per update of his journal. That said, I'm in favor of a contest that gives everyone a chance, and if that means a "1 grower 1 meme" rule, I'll live with it 😉