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flapping_bird
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Re: GROWER’s BEST photo contest. Monthly prizes!

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#29594070 - 06/03/26 10:33 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Preserving for posterity the entries from the last round, May 2026. Please note that if you delete your pics from your PICS folder (or relocate them), the links to these images will break, FYI. There were a lot of really great pics submitted this round! Nice job, all! Any one of these would make a great framed 8x10. Congrats to all participants on your grows!

MAY 2026 GROWER'S BEST PHOTO CONTEST ENTRIES ARCHIVE

Kloakk

Rasmodious

jbgtaa

Splittinghairs

Chris77

oktopus

SkanskKorv

strawboy

RustBuketz

Milkeesha

MycDrop

Bigworm

Penman

Mateja

Awfullotofshrooms

Syntax.Error

ClearLakeBoy

Lithop

MetalPro

Bluespirit

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#29594077 - 06/03/26 10:44 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Great idea flapping!

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#29594093 - 06/03/26 11:10 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

I’m thinking this presentation/approach may also provide a good voting ballot kind of thing - will see what I can figure out.

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#29594125 - 06/03/26 11:45 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Basically the contestants do most of the work. You just need to make the link to the original "I'm in" post for each person and tally the votes. Contestants are responsible for upkeep of their first "I'm in" post.
Then voters can see that people didn't update for a specific month so they are not eligible.
I'm lagm(let's all grow mushrooms) we had our original post where we listed what we were growing for that contest. When we had an update we listed the date and posted pics to that 1 post.
This is my post in the last lagm thread I took part in. If you scroll down my post you'll see how it's dated with updates. You can go to the first page to see how it was linked. Sorry I deleted most of the pictures cause it's been a few years.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28117131#28117131

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Re: GROWER’s BEST photo contest. Monthly prizes!

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#29594127 - 06/03/26 11:46 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

excellent thanks - will take a look; could be a good model to follow, vs reinventing the wheel.

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#29594294 - 06/03/26 03:13 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

I like this. Maybe consider having contestants send their submission through pm and then release a post like this at the beginning of the month for voting.

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#29594449 - 06/03/26 05:55 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

I'm glad I wasnt the only one who was thinking you'll work yourself to death if this takes off lol

did I miss the winner or are votes still getting counted?

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Re: GROWER’s BEST photo contest. Monthly prizes!

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#29594502 - 06/03/26 06:36 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

flapping_bird said:

Preserving for posterity the entries from the last round, May 2026. Please note that if you delete your pics from your PICS folder (or relocate them), the links to these images will break, FYI. There were a lot of really great pics submitted this round! Nice job, all! Any one of these would make a great framed 8x10. Congrats to all participants on your grows!

MAY 2026 GROWER'S BEST PHOTO CONTEST ENTRIES ARCHIVE

Kloakk

Rasmodious

jbgtaa

Splittinghairs

Chris77

oktopus

SkanskKorv

strawboy

RustBuketz

Milkeesha

MycDrop

Bigworm

Penman

Mateja

Awfullotofshrooms

Syntax.Error

ClearLakeBoy

Lithop

MetalPro

Bluespirit

Could you do a post like this, and include a poll in the post for the vote? Seems like if you had every picture, with a poll at the end, voting would be streamlined quite a bit. No idea if it works that way, but maybe something like that?

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#29594516 - 06/03/26 06:55 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

@jbgtaa - nope, didn’t miss anything yet. Original plan was to announce on the 5th, but I’ve got ‘em tallied and voting is over - will post the results shortly!

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#29594599 - 06/03/26 07:47 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

take all the time in the world Im a few drinks in and couldnt follow lol

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#29594604 - 06/03/26 07:48 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

MAY 2026 RESULTS - WINNER: strawboy! Congratulations!

GROWER'S BEST PHOTO CONTEST
RESULTS FOR MAY 2026

WINNER: Strawboy, with 8 votes
CLOSE RUNNERS-UP: Chris77 and Lithop, with 5 votes each.

# of participants: 20
# of participants that voted: 13
Voting Participation, percent: 65%

FULL RESULTS TABLE
(Presented with Participant Names & # of Votes received for each, sorted by # of votes descending, then alphabetically ascending)

PARTICIPANT, # Votes
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strawboy, 8
Chris77, 5
Lithop, 5
Bluespirit, 3
kloakk, 3
Penman, 3
RustBuketz, 3
SkanskKorv, 3
ClearLakeBoy, 1
oktopus, 1
Rasmodious, 1
Splittinghairs, 1
Awfullotofshrooms, 0
Bigworm, 0
jbgtaa, 0
Mateja, 0
MetalPro, 0
Milkeesha, 0
MycDrop, 0
Syntax.Error, 0

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#29594643 - 06/03/26 08:04 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Congrats strawboy! And good work to everyone else!

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#29594685 - 06/03/26 08:51 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Alright…..new month, new round. Trying to implement some improvements based on feedback.

Tweaked set of rules (feedback on these requested) :

1. to participate, drop a post stating “I’m in”.
2. One’s “I’m in” post will forever be the location for ALL of your month-to-month entries going forward. Each entry must be labeled with the month you entered it.
3. One can post their entry pic now or later, but to make it onto the ballot for voting, it **must** be in place no later than the 20th of the month.
4. Voting starts 5 days before the end of the month. For June, this is June 26, 2025.
5. Results will be announced on the first of the following month. (abandoned these changes after discussion below)

How do these feel/sound? Changes needed? I haven’t yet added these to the rules post (post #2 in this thread).

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#29594699 - 06/03/26 09:00 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

@mycdrop, I think I can make your suggestion work, will give it a shot.

I did some testing and now know that I cannot show the actual picture in a poll item, but I can list usernames, so voting by poll should/would be workable, except there’s no good way for someone to vote more than once for any one entry, so there’s that…dunno if that really matters to anyone though?

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#29594733 - 06/03/26 09:16 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

flapping_bird said:

1. to participate, drop a post stating “I’m in”.

IMO posting a picture should count as entry, with the "I'm in" as a placeholder if you just want to reserve a spot for later? IMO anybody who posts a photo in a thread titled photo contest is implicitly agreeing to enter.

flapping_bird said:

2. One’s “I’m in” post will forever be the location for ALL of your month-to-month entries going forward. Each entry must be labeled with the month you entered it.

Do I replace my old photo each month? Add it to the top? The bottom? I feel like this risks becoming confusing. What if I'm out one month but then come back in? Do I edit my original post or make a new one? If this becomes a long running event will you have to chase down photos from OGs spread across 60+ pages?

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MycDrop said:

[... stack of all the photos ...]
Could you do a post like this, and include a poll in the post for the vote? Seems like if you had every picture, with a poll at the end, voting would be streamlined quite a bit. No idea if it works that way, but maybe something like that?

100000x this, if it's possible. I like the idea of each month getting its own thread. People just post one photo anywhere in the thread, and then when voting opens, submissions close, and the first post can get edited to be a pile of photos with usernames, and the poll widget at the end. They do it like this over in hunting & ID and it seems to work.

They have a separate voting booth thread which feels kinda superfluous. IMO a title change adding "NOW VOTING: July 2026 photo contest" or whatever would be plenty. It can start like "ENTER NOW:" and end like "STRAWBOY WINS:" for a lil glory.

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Thanks for organizing this whole thing so far! It's been fun and I'm excited to enter during a month when I've actually got things fruiting :biggrin:

:biggrin:

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edit: you replied while I was typing

flapping_bird said:

except there’s no good way for someone to vote more than once for any one entry, so there’s that…dunno if that really matters to anyone though?

One vote per person seems totally okay IMO, and a great tradeoff if it makes the poll widget work. Would certainly save you some inbox overload and manual tallying.

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#29594763 - 06/03/26 09:33 PM (3 months, 23 days ago)

hrmmmm…thanks, Rasmodious. So just make it to be: post a pic during the month as one’s entry (nothing else needed), submissions close when voting starts, and a poll-style picture summary ballot for automated voting?

Sounds a lot easier….other input from anyone?

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#29594853 - 06/04/26 12:48 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

dear FB

:hug:

thank you for the effort and congratulations to you for having such good energy to create this :heart:

:heart:

:leocheers:

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#29594869 - 06/04/26 01:36 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Congratulations to strawboy and Chris! :awesomenod:

:awesomenod:

How about adding themes like "Novelty grows" or "most aesthetic" or even species etc. It'd make things more fun and easier to vote for the best contribution. Without a theme it's basically just a battle Royale and I've seen this type of contest crash hard before due to unhappy people saying "but mine was better..." According to his/her own opinions so adding a theme would make things more clear and gives less room for complaints and unhappy people being offended by not winning.

If someone already suggested this just ignore me :rockon:

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#29594888 - 06/04/26 02:16 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Congratulations to strawboy!

:birthday:

:birthday:

:trophy:

:birthday:

And thanks for all who voted my semp-sack.
:fasted:

:fasted:

Some proper juicy photos for May, and it's awesome seeing them all together in one post. Great stuff people.

:carlton:

:carlton:

:wexican:

Huge thanks to flapping_bird, you rock.

And an honourable mention to oktopus on this round I feel, I found the fisheye-esque, 'hand with the reflecting spehere' vibe reflections in your photo cool as hell!

Themed photos/categories COULD be very fun :laugh:

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#29594940 - 06/04/26 04:51 AM (3 months, 23 days ago)

Thank you everyone! I'm honored to be the winner for May. It's crazy that it would have been a three-way tie if I hadn't voted for myself 3 times. All the props go to flapping_bird for putting in all the work to make this happen.

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