Grower of the Month March 2024

Question for the administration. You wrote that this competition will be improved to avoid fraud. What exactly did you do for this? since I didn't notice anything new. again in first place is some unknown dude who registered 11 days ago. This competition does not have any protection against elementary fraud. there is no point in taking part in it and wasting your time. It’s not clear who wins anyway and it’s not clear for what answers to what questions. This competition is a disgrace to this website. remove it altogether if you cannot control the fairness of this competition.

Hey Guys So, I'm seen so many wrong/ bad advice answers to really simple questions (they're simple to growers as they experienced these issues by doing grows, not from Google or CHAT AI Bots) and ill explain y 90% of the time you'll get wrong answers. Or led down a wrong path, and its not the machine giving a wrong answer its just they giving out data based on the theory behind the Question that's been input for their responses As for this things (searches) to give reply to your question. Your question must be related to the answer u seeking. For example. If you type whats this white stuff on a leaf on my plant: Answers: Mold, WPM etc & panic over nothing essentially, if you didn't see or notice what could be the reason, you really shouldn't ask a bot that's given pre programed answer that falls in line with the parameters of the question But if you ask. I split my solution on my plant and there's white on it. Answer: This is most likely just a residue salts/nutrient solution drying in. Or it'll give u a definitive answer more in line with ur issue. My point you need to know the basis of your Question that fits in with your problem You can't just type in whats this without giving a reason or help what you're asking to filter out the 1000s of answers. We had this a while back wit some1 calling hermie or nanner everytime they seen a bracts/calyex I'm not going to say why or what led me to bring this up, as its not 1 single person/case its a common problem wit ppl and this contest. But the end of it. I see the answers aren't given in that way on purpose. My point is just if u don't know dont answer by guesses or worse Google or AI as they need exacting points to the question that can be linked with a proper answer.

Since I am NEW to this site and this is my first time ever taking part in any competition here, can you go backwards in points? Went to bed last night at 11 points, woke up at 10 points?

No winners? Lol

Have a look at their t&cs @LSchnabel, if I'm right. Any new accounts or profiles must be created before the contest month or & a completed diary.. (this is pure conjecture, not fact or I haven't heard. I just know so many ppl complain about new accounts. This contest is flooded with trolls etc. Not saying that's you. But you may fall the new rules GD rarely reply. With so many random messages. Sorry

What the hell? How did I not win this? I had the most answered questions on this???

So you're not considered entered until at least 1 person picks your answer as a solution? Hopefully members come back and pick members for the solution, I see open questions from 6 years ago that the member never picked anyone for lol.

Am I missing something with this? Just today I had three or four of my answers picked by people who have diaries… they don’t count? Then you have people going from 1 to 8 in three days when it took all month for me to get to 10? I had no clue what I was getting myself into but after reading all the comments though this it is very displeasing if people are indeed cheating the site.

Boas pessoal. Espero que esteja tudo bem por aqui. Bem na minha opinião todos deviam poder seleccionar uma resposta, pergunta só finalizada quando seleccionada por usuário. Mas todo podíamos seleccionar resposta, assim até quem precisa de ajuda tinha já uma visão da resposta mais votada.

Good luck people if i place I will withdraw before the end as I won in feb but wish the best to the other growers :)

What happens with a Tie for top spots?

Seems like nothing changed in here. Is it worth to read it all? @m0use @gottagrowsometime @Hashy @AsNoriu

looks like I lost a point? @growdiaries care to explain anyway I withdrew this contest is bullshit

Does anyone know what happened to February gotm? January and march up but no feb

I’m guessing something is mixed up because Roberts was 4th and then cultivatorfrog was 3rd and somehow Roberts jumped into second over cultivatorfrog. ???

Anyone know what the countdown timer is on this contest now that it is already over?

Come on ILOVEGROWING.

Please remember this is linked to people asking questions, they need help resolving problems and don't usually realise their questions are linked to a competition, so aim to help the grower sort out their problem and if you get a point for it then that's a bonus. Good luck to all that are helping out.

Couldn't they just easily make it so you have to be here at least a month to enter or have at least 1 completed diary or something? Other contests do it, I don't see why this one can't be the same. Should be a rule like that for every single contest. Someone just needs to look at the questions and answers and award points accordingly. The person asking the question shouldn't have all the power to pick a solution, especially if they just picked someone that typed a longer message and used fancier words to say the same thing someone said before them. I've seen lots of bad answers that were selected as solutions just because the person who answered typed a long message or used fancy words. Feel bad for the people who are asking for help and getting advice that's going to hurt their crop.

Time to shine, ad showing the best manners