Winners of the Post of the Month, Compliment of the Month, and Non-Compliment Comment of the Month on the FreeCompliments Community – November 2023!

Welcome to the November’s iteration of the FreeCompliments Community’s contests for Post of the Month, Compliment of the Month, and Non-Compliment Comment of the Month! The goal of this contest is to encourage the creation of quality content, both long-form and short-form, for the betterment of the community and its members.

The winner of the Post of the Month and Compliment of the Month will win 5 HSBI + 1000 Ecency Points, and runner-ups of these plus the Non-Compliment Comment of the Month will win 3 HSBI + 500 Ecency Points. Plus, they’ll be the first to nominate the next month’s choices!

Additionally, @raymondspeaks announced that “Monthly contest winners will also get a BIG fat vote from @brofi on their latest post” – how exciting!

Due to the fact that some voters placed votes on more than one post/comment, plus there were some comment curation trails (these are unintentional and I won’t ask to change them), I had to carefully figure out how to weigh the final tally and also do some tie-breaking. In the future, pretty please with a cherry on top, for the sake of my sanity, only vote for ONE post, ONE comment, and ONE non-compliment comment – and not your own! 😂

Without further ado, here are our winners and runner-ups:

Post of the Month

Wishful Wednesday: I wish you don’t wish for a world without pain from @mviews. In this post, he explains the necessity of pain and difficulty in order to appreciate the good things in life, and how the difficult situations can lead us to learn lessons and better ourselves. It is a poignant post which can be used to enrich our life every single day, which is why it has earned the prize of Post of the Month.

5 HSBI and 1,000 Ecency Points coming your way!

And for our runner-up:

Anxiety - a battle with your mind and body from @fantagira. In this post, she describes the journey that she gone through in the evolution of her anxiety. Her descriptions are apt, emotional, and easy to understand. She truly brings you inside of her world and makes you understand exactly what it means to deal with this condition, and for this reason, it wins our runner-up prize!

3 HSBI and 500 Ecency Points coming your way!

Compliment of the Month

From @palomap3, this compliment humbly acknowledges how she self-reflected and learned something from @mviews’ post. The thorough description of personal impact renders it as our winner of Compliment of the Month.

5 HSBI and 1,000 Ecency Points coming your way!

And for our runner-up:

From @ckole, this compliment is not hosted within the FC Community, but is a very worthy entry due to its absolute power in the acknowledgment and encouragement of the poster’s difficult times. The repetition of phrases only hammers in the point. This is a remarkable methodology of complimenting, and highly worthy of a prize.

3 HSBI and 500 Ecency Points coming your way!

Non-Compliment Comment of the Month

While our primary focus is on compliments, free speech and discussion is also a tremendous focus in this community. Not all conversations require compliments or agreements, but rather respectful discussion, listening, and exchanges of ideas. Thus, I believe it is essential to reward dialogues which are done in such a manner. This is a tenet of the stringent free speech principle we exercise, in a manner that we would love to see implemented in all forms of communication.

This month, it’s a comment by @magnacarta, adds to @city-of-berlin’s discourse on the importance of facing your problems by discussing the direct benefits of doing so. In typical magnacarta style, there’s even some humor! Another excellent entry from that certainly deserves the prize.

3 HSBI and 500 Ecency Points coming your way!

Conclusion

Congratulations to the winners and runner-ups of this Post of the Month, Compliment of the Month, and Non-Compliment Comment of the Month contest! I hope that this encourages you and others who see this post to continue producing quality content within the community, and to spread the principles we practice in this community out into the rest of Hive and the world around you.

To our winners and runner-ups: we now provide you an opportunity to vote for your choice of Post of the Month and Compliment of the Month, as well as Non-Compliment Comment of the Month. Please submit up to 2 choices for each (I know it can be tough to choose). For the sake of integrity, please don’t nominate your own work lol!

The post announcing the next contest will be made in the first week of January to permit a week’s worth of nominations prior to revealing the winners.

What do you think of our winners and runner-ups? Are there are other posts or comments that you would have chosen? Are the choices and prizes fair?

I would love to hear any and all opinions about these topics from everyone who is currently a member of FreeCompliments, since you’re all inaugural members! Anyone else who finds this page is also very welcome to voice their opinion. We’re all about free speech, and everyone’s experience has value.

More posts with further ideas incoming soon!

Disclaimer: FreeCompliments will be a beneficiary for this post, and I will attempt to boost it via Ecency points as well. @irfanmustafa will also be a 1% beneficiary to all contest posts for providing our contest logo.

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