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@GrowingGrannie, don't worry it'll happen. Sometimes winners can overlap into the 2nd lot off contests for some reason. Think they may have bigger issues then choosing the winners for this month. There seems to be some bugs that keep blocking users from chats, liking diaries and following people.
@Chow_13, interesting. that's kinda weird as once anyone responds to a question, the author can not delete it or edit it, its "locked". So this is allowing a person answering any questions the ability to reopen them, and not the author. Definitely a bug that needs to be fixed. I see users points fall for no other reason sometimes as well. So when that happens it does not zero individuals out. Should be the same process I would feel.
I know when hiding diaries it removes them from the score board but will add them back on when they are unhidden. This could be used as a trolling tool, asking questions all at once then hiding the diary and end of contest hit unhide... "magic" someone is top of ranks.
This could be combined with a slew of older questions asked throughout multiple months and accounts to add a stealth effect to it, a simple investigation would not find it right away but if someone points where all from questions dated older then a month it would be sus. They could add a side rule that it's only collection points on questions asked around the monthly period of the contests as well. Bang fixed that exploit lol.
This is all good to know if it happens again, we now have an answer. Funny how we are trouble shooting this and not the people who are paid to run this site lol.
Should send you a gift card for McDonald's :D
@m0use, I cant say for sure, but I think it went along the lines of troll spammed questions, He answered one of them and got selected. He noticed the question spamming and didn't want the point as it was an obvious troll and removed his answer.
As for me, I did it as a test. I agree though once an answer is selected the whole thing should be locked. They fixed the ability to switch "Selected" answers. But all the answers are still removable.
@Growdiaries. I have found the bug that happened last month. I was at 5 points. Then I went to an answer that I was selected for and clicked on "Remove". This removed my answer, put the question back into a "Unanswered" state and cleared all of my points.
The question that I was selected for and removed my "selected" answer from was growdiaries.com/grow-questions/48646-germination-to-vegetation
Not interested in getting the points back. But last months winner got screwed over by this bug. @crimsonecho and deserves the win.
To replicate( Have grower B with many points from many growers )
Grower A - Ask a question
Grower B - Answer the question
Grower A -Select Grower B's solution
Grower B - Delete the answer that grower A selected.
Now Grower B will Have zero points even though they only removed the single answer.
@Whitewizard, fingers crossed my man you never know with seed runs.
topdressed the cannalopes today with 2 cups of ewc each pot because its gonna be a long journey with these gals
@GMSgrows, oh i bet they are haha
its just pathetic its what it is. i enjoy chatting with good growers and humble beginners on this site so i’m here but i should also add trolling on this site is out of control and ruining the experience for many people. shame.