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FurrowedBrow said:
Welcome to the August 2009 Pic-of-the-Month Poll

Throughout each month we nominate for the next contest and vote on the previous completed month's nominees..... and the three rules for nomination are pretty easy: original cannabis-related pics only / first posted here during contest month (grace period allowed for pics posted late in the month)/ no self-nominations. . . . .

So let's go - 18 entrants this month, and here's the August nomination thread, from where you can link to each of the host threads for details: August 2009 Nomination Thread

First Row:
1Tootie Fruity by C3R3AL KiLLRx, 2 Troublemaker by Inverted, 3 Hash by Voodoo, 4 CFL bud by Harry_Ba11sach, 5 G13 haze by 206

Second Row:
6 Bagseed Grow by agmotes165, 7 Lemon Skunk by snufkin, 8 Texas "durn state" Indoor by MFDoom666, 9 Bagseed LED/Cfl Grow by agmotes165, 10 White Widow by Integra21

Third Row:
11 Unknown Strain Outdoor Grow by webzguy, 12 Kush Crossbreed by Jair 13 Outdoor Beauty by dmtcorey 14 hemostats by GTFOsTwinBroJED 15 Outdoor Beauty by dmtcorey


Forth Row:
16 Trainwreck Indoor by Harry_Ba11sach 17 Dry Lemon Skunk by snufkin 18 Troublemaker by Inverted

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

11   12 13 14 15

16 17 18

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Integra21 said:
I'm a little disappointed that I keep getting undercut by inferior buds. It also seems like a very small voting pool.  Just find it upsetting to see for the second month in a row, the worst looking bud out of all of them is in first. What a joke. Much respect to all of the hard work of the people who grew their herb and did a great job, but I feel like it is an insult to all of us to keep seeing these terrible buds winning first place month after month. Everyone voting for members and not buds, you should go hang yourself, this isnt whos the most popular on the growery, it's pot of the month. And if you always vote for crap because your friend posted it, i hope karma bites you in the ass and that is the only smoke you can find yourself. This is my official resignation for the growery. I hope all of the hard workes dont take ofense, but I just cant take any more. Thanks to Furrowed Brow, TripTronic, and HarryBallsac for all of the effort you put in and people you help. Also thanks for all of the kind words from you guys. But this site is as corupt as the us government in a twisted world of out of focus crapy buds being your POTM. Enjoy Bizzaro World. Any one interested in my future grows, they will be posted on rollitup.org where people have the comon sense to handle something as simple as judging the best bud. This whole rant has nothing to do with me losing, just who I am loosing to.

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I agree.  It saddens me too.  It takes quiet a while to get all these things set up just right and I feel the same way you do about it.  Unfortunately there's not much we can do about it aside from voice our complaints and hope that those people change their behavior.    It's not a big enough issue to resign from the site for though.  We've still got a great community here.  Also, this is only the beginning of POTM, this is only the forth poll and in my opinion only the one's that have won the previous polls haven't been terrible pictures or anything.  I, like you, just disagree with the results.  But so will everyone else who voted for something else. 

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Integra21 said:
I'm a little disappointed that I keep getting undercut by inferior buds.

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Integra21 said:
I'm a little disappointed that I keep getting undercut by inferior buds. It also seems like a very small voting pool.  Just find it upsetting to see for the second month in a row, the worst looking bud out of all of them is in first. What a joke. Much respect to all of the hard work of the people who grew their herb and did a great job, but I feel like it is an insult to all of us to keep seeing these terrible buds winning first place month after month. Everyone voting for members and not buds, you should go hang yourself, this isnt whos the most popular on the growery, it's pot of the month. And if you always vote for crap because your friend posted it, i hope karma bites you in the ass and that is the only smoke you can find yourself. This is my official resignation for the growery. I hope all of the hard workes dont take ofense, but I just cant take any more. Thanks to Furrowed Brow, TripTronic, and HarryBallsac for all of the effort you put in and people you help. Also thanks for all of the kind words from you guys. But this site is as corupt as the us government in a twisted world of out of focus crapy buds being your POTM. Enjoy Bizzaro World. Any one interested in my future grows, they will be posted on rollitup.org where people have the comon sense to handle something as simple as judging the best bud. This whole rant has nothing to do with me losing, just who I am loosing to.

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Integra21 said:
I say that #16 and #8 are the winners by default of the majority of voters being blind.

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agreed

I voted for #16

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FurrowedBrow said:
Would it please the boards if next time I don't let anyone view the results until the end of the month?

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maybe post the pix w/out the name of the grower/poster
Then, at the end of the month, post all of the names

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geokills said:
I voted #8, excellent composition, decent resolution and a tasty lookin' nugget to boot!

I'm also a little tired of seeing these polls revert to little more than a campaign for members who spend the most time dickin' around our social forums to network a clique.  Ultimately however, that is to be in part expected while the site is still relatively small.  We don't have a huge voter turnout, but in the fullness of time and as our membership grows in size, these artifacts of the popularity campaign will become negligible to the final result.  Unfortunately, that time may still be more than a year away...

But - and I address this specifically to Integra21 - just because you don't win some internet poll does not mean that your work goes unnoticed.  I have been very pleased to follow the topics of the generous growers on this website, and anyone who takes this hobby seriously can easily discern the members here who put the most effort into their passion for pot.  Integra21, you are definitely one of those members!  It would be a loss to the Growery community if you resign your participation here.

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