420 Magazine's Member of the Month: September 2023

420 Magazine's Member of the Month: September 2023


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Renee Roberts

420 Support
420 Staff
Welcome to 420 Magazine's Member of the Month Contest!

420 Magazine would like to include not only our valued growers, but also more of our non-growing members in this contest. We are by no means excluding growers from the Member of the Month Contest, but we feel that our Plant and Nug Contests are already serving these members pretty well. Please help and support us in this effort.

Specifically, we're looking to thank those members that help and support our site in so many under recognized ways, such as:
  • Greeting new members
  • Helping people with questions
  • Peacemakers
  • Activism efforts
  • Promoting our Sponsors
  • Activity and content generation
  • Reporting violations
Please send your nominations to 420 Support (@Renee Roberts or @Teddy Edwards) via private message, including detailed reasoning for your nomination. 420 Staff will assess and approve the community nominations, then members determine the winner by poll.

Nominations are accepted from the 1st until the 14th at midnight PST every month. Approved nominations will be posted shortly after midnight PST and, at that time, the polls will open through midnight PST on the last day of the month to vote for a winner.

Please follow the above guidelines to propose a nomination and do not post or discuss nominations in the contest thread. Nominations and/or suggestions of nominations in the contest thread will be deleted without notice.

All winners receive "Member of the Month" title and the following Prize Package:

420 Magazine: 420 Magazine Lighter, 420 Magazine Magnet, 420 Magazine Stickers
Foods Alive: Organic Toasted Hemp Seeds
Sierra Natural Science: SNS-217 Spider Mite Control - 1 Quart Mix Pouch
Mile High Cleaner: Deluxe Cleaning Kit (Members can only win this prize once per year)

Shipping fees may apply to some packages shipped outside of the U.S.
You are responsible for any additional fees applied by customs.
Additional Details On Prize Shipping & Customs Duties

Monthly winners are automatically eligible for our prestigious "Member of the Year" contest, held in January.

Contest Guidelines:

1. Members must have at least 50 posts to be entitled to vote.

2. 420 Magazine staff members submit nominees and rationale in the contest thread.

3. Promotion (i.e. campaigning) for yourself or a friend, or any attempt at voting more than one time per person (i.e. multiple user names, etc.) is considered cheating and is prohibited. Promotion also includes family and friends who register a new account for voting purposes. Campaigning in any form - including but not limited to mentioning the entry in any thread outside the contest, a signature link to the entry and campaigning via PMs - will result in the entry being removed from the month's contest. A second instance, either in a different contest during the same month or in any future contest, will attract a lifetime ban from all future contests. General encouragement to vote in all the contests is fine, as long as it's not excessive or crossing the line into campaigning. Any post which explicitly or implicitly encourages members to vote for a specific entry is not.

4. Members cannot nominate themselves.

5. Members may only win this title once per calendar year.

6. Staff members from this or any other cannabis forum/community can not be nominated.

7. In accepting the Member of the Month title, prize(s), and the respect of the members, the winner agrees to wear his/her title with honor and to continue to set the example with his/her actions and posting behavior. To retain the Member of the Month title, the winner must remain compliant with contest rules and site guidelines.

If anyone has any questions or problems with ANY of the entries in ANY of our contests, please speak up publicly in the respective contest thread, before the end of the contest or forever hold your peace. Once a winner is announced, that will be the end of discussion, there will be no take backs, unless we made a clerical error.

Contests Are Legitimate: Now that votes are publicly visible, it should be obvious who is voting. We have endless ways of discovering cheating and are always successful. If you are caught cheating, your entry will be deleted and you'll be called out in the public thread, visible to everyone. Reason being that in the past, when we removed the offending entry without any announcement (to help minimize embarrassment for the member), it often led to uninformed (or worse, misinformed) members questioning our motives and calling us censorship nazi's. More often than not, the cheater themselves would claim innocence, causing a higher workload for our staff. For these reasons, we now alert the community of what happened, to save all the confusion and massive workload on our team.

This year's winners who are now ineligible for nomination:
January: @CaptainLucky
February: @InTheShed
March: @Tokin Roll
April: @Bill284
May: @Phytoplankton
June: @Sparkey224
July: @Greenvein
August: @SmokingWings

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September Nominees

@bluter
I would like to nominate Bluter for MotM, and I’d like to tell you why…

It’s because I’m his sister and I can’t afford to buy him a birthday present, so I wanna win him a sash! Lolling!

Just kidding. I don’t know him/her. My path has only crossed theirs a handful of times, and the reason is the same. I wanted help, I started a Can You Help Me Thread, and bluter answered. For no other reason but to help. To assist me - a person he doesn’t know - reach their grow potential.

Look at this post history!

Like other nominees, bluter doesn’t seem to run with a Chat Pack. He’s a lone wolf who likes to help. Bluter has been a member since 2018, and I think it’s time he won a sash.

And to you @bluter, thanks for all you do spreading the 420 Magazine message. I think you’re a star and we are really lucky to have you.

So I’d like to start my Spring with a win for Bluter!

🤩🌻🤩🌻🤩🌻

@Carmen Ray
I would like to nominate Carmen Ray for Member of the Month – September 2023

She can often be found greeting new members and making them feel at ease. Her pleasant disposition show she is a kind and caring member, willing to help, whenever she can.

While she is reading other growers journals, she will compliment them on their skills and recommend our sponsors when the need arises.

@KeithLemon
I would like to nominate @KeithLemon for the member of the month award. He's probably one of the most deserving people of the title. He's always positive, welcoming to new members, neutral and he always tries to include everyone in either contests or by saying Hi and being supportive in someone elses journal. A proper dude who listens with open ears, takes notes and do adjustments accordingly and doesn't seem to have an ego or bias.

@NickHardy
This month I'd like to stick Mr NickHardy in the hat with a slam dunk! He's a very active member making sure he's present on everyone's time zone lol giving warm welcomes and offering great advice to other growers. his positive humorous personality can be contagious so watch negative Nancie's 🤣 also his gardening skills are adventurous, experimental and fun which win or loose theirs always knowledge to be Gained and I think this opens up a lot of new members not to fear trying something new or even begin a journal. Real cool dude 😎

@Wastei
I’d like to nominate @Wastei for member of the month. I’ve been following him for a minute now and think he’s got to be the most Misunderstood guy on this site. He’s seen regularly welcoming new members and often helping them with growing problems. Sometimes he gets a little too technical but he is offering solutions to problems. I have seen other members disagreeing with him and sometimes not very nice but he always stays positive. And I have never seen him respond unkindly. That’s why I think it’s about time we show him that he’s a valued member of @420 Magazine and make him MOTM.

:goodluck: Good Luck Everyone! :goodluck:
 
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September Nominees

@bluter
I would like to nominate Bluter for MotM, and I’d like to tell you why…

It’s because I’m his sister and I can’t afford to buy him a birthday present, so I wanna win him a sash! Lolling!

Just kidding. I don’t know him/her. My path has only crossed theirs a handful of times, and the reason is the same. I wanted help, I started a Can You Help Me Thread, and bluter answered. For no other reason but to help. To assist me - a person he doesn’t know - reach their grow potential.

Look at this post history!

Like other nominees, bluter doesn’t seem to run with a Chat Pack. He’s a lone wolf who likes to help. Bluter has been a member since 2018, and I think it’s time he won a sash.

And to you @bluter, thanks for all you do spreading the 420 Magazine message. I think you’re a star and we are really lucky to have you.

So I’d like to start my Spring with a win for Bluter!

🤩🌻🤩🌻🤩🌻

@Carmen Ray
I would like to nominate Carmen Ray for Member of the Month – September 2023

She can often be found greeting new members and making them feel at ease. Her pleasant disposition show she is a kind and caring member, willing to help, whenever she can.

While she is reading other growers journals, she will compliment them on their skills and recommend our sponsors when the need arises.

@KeithLemon
I would like to nominate @KeithLemon for the member of the month award. He's probably one of the most deserving people of the title. He's always positive, welcoming to new members, neutral and he always tries to include everyone in either contests or by saying Hi and being supportive in someone elses journal. A proper dude who listens with open ears, takes notes and do adjustments accordingly and doesn't seem to have an ego or bias.

@NickHardy
This month I'd like to stick Mr NickHardy in the hat with a slam dunk! He's a very active member making sure he's present on everyone's time zone lol giving warm welcomes and offering great advice to other growers. his positive humorous personality can be contagious so watch negative Nancie's 🤣 also his gardening skills are adventurous, experimental and fun which win or loose theirs always knowledge to be Gained and I think this opens up a lot of new members not to fear trying something new or even begin a journal. Real cool dude 😎

@Wastei
I’d like to nominate @Wastei for member of the month. I’ve been following him for a minute now and think he’s got to be the most Misunderstood guy on this site. He’s seen regularly welcoming new members and often helping them with growing problems. Sometimes he gets a little too technical but he is offering solutions to problems. I have seen other members disagreeing with him and sometimes not very nice but he always stays positive. And I have never seen him respond unkindly. That’s why I think it’s about time we show him that he’s a valued member of @420 Magazine and make him MOTM.

:goodluck: Good Luck Everyone! :goodluck:
 
Wowsa!

Thank you so much to the person that nominated me and to the mods that approved it! 🙏🏼

I’m less happy about having to choose between the others for my own vote because they are all awesome growers,, members and peeps too! 😅

Thanks everyone 🙏🏼

Nick
I fought tooth and nail but they outvoted me! jk 🙏
Great choices, thank all of you equally for helping further our mission! :bravo:
 
Thanks for the nomination and all the love to the haters! I feel a little bit awkward to vote in a contest I'm attending myself but maybe that's just me? With the current rules you're able to vote on yourself in contests and I've seen people do so. I never really understood why and how that's possible? I will put no vote in any contest I'm attending myself.

All the best of luck to all the other contenders! Cheers!
 
Thanks for the nomination and all the love to the haters! I feel a little bit awkward to vote in a contest I'm attending myself but maybe that's just me? With the current rules you're able to vote on yourself in contests and I've seen people do so. I never really understood why and how that's possible? I will put no vote in any contest I'm attending myself.

All the best of luck to all the other contenders! Cheers!
Congrats on you nom @Wastei
Yeah, voting for oneself is definitely a shallow practice, but I would vote for someone else regardless to demonstrate appreciation of their work too
It's a bit strange, but this isn't really a 'contest', more like having your end of term project marked when you are on the judging panel too; no reason not to vote

Good work and best of luck to all
:Namaste:
 
Thanks for the nomination and all the love to the haters! I feel a little bit awkward to vote in a contest I'm attending myself but maybe that's just me? With the current rules you're able to vote on yourself in contests and I've seen people do so. I never really understood why and how that's possible? I will put no vote in any contest I'm attending myself.

All the best of luck to all the other contenders! Cheers!
Your nominator was 100% correct brother 👌we all see it do don't rise to it and let the softies stay soft 🤣 great member to the site for sure! ✌️
 
Thanks for the nomination and all the love to the haters! I feel a little bit awkward to vote in a contest I'm attending myself but maybe that's just me? With the current rules you're able to vote on yourself in contests and I've seen people do so. I never really understood why and how that's possible? I will put no vote in any contest I'm attending myself.

All the best of luck to all the other contenders! Cheers!
Congratulations on your nomination @Wastei - I have voted for myself once, no, twice. The first time I objectively thought my entry was the best one. I try to separate the entries from the growers and vote as objectively as possible for what I think is the best. The second time I was in a close one on one battle with someone, and I noticed that person had voted for themselves. In that case I felt it was fair to vote for myself. But generally speaking, I feel (and seems most do) as you do - I won’t vote for me. However, I share this to let you know, your vote is valuable and needed. We don’t have 100 people voting or anything. If I may suggest (just a suggestion really - you do what you want!) - maybe it’s better to vote, just not for you if you feel strongly that way?
 
Thanks for the nomination and all the love to the haters! I feel a little bit awkward to vote in a contest I'm attending myself but maybe that's just me? With the current rules you're able to vote on yourself in contests and I've seen people do so. I never really understood why and how that's possible? I will put no vote in any contest I'm attending myself.

All the best of luck to all the other contenders! Cheers!
You are a class act Sir and I commend you on your scruples. I feel the same way but when others are doing it it’s hard not to in return. CL🍀. :thumb: :cheer:
 
You are a class act Sir and I commend you on your scruples. I feel the same way but when others are doing it it’s hard not to in return. CL🍀. :thumb: :cheer:
If you don't approve of something for goodness sake don't lower your standards to match - that is a road to nowhere
Rise above it and do the right thing, always
You'll never be wrong
:Namaste:
 
You are a class act Sir and I commend you on your scruples. I feel the same way but when others are doing it it’s hard not to in return. CL🍀. :thumb: :cheer:
Philosophical Question for you, @CaptainLucky? What would you do if you entered say, NOTM, and there were only seven other entries that month, and you honestly thought the other seven were meh and you thought yours was awesome? In other words, how would you vote in that exact circumstance? When you very objectively (as much as we can be about our own buds) assessed your entry as the best by a good bit? (There’s no right of wrong answer, I’m really just curious about your philosophy)
 
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