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

Welcome to December’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!

Thank you to everyone who voted – we had no double-votes this time, so counting was much easier! Curation trails were easy to find, our friendly @dustbunny was identified, and self-votes (likely unintentional) were not counted. Now, we did have ties for one category, so I did choose between those when they appeared; otherwise, everything was based solely on number of unique votes.

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

Post of the Month

LET THEM KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN TO YOU from @hopestylist. In this post, she completes a Dreemport challenge by writing out extended compliments to several people on Hive who are important to her. The entire post is simply an organized collection of compliments. If that’s not what this community is all about, then what is? That’s why this post is a deserving winner of Post of the Month.

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

And for our runner-up:

The Hịịhịị Masquerade Painting from @artist-freepae. In this post, he shares with us a completely original work of art that combines culture, history, mystique, and a generally well0executed work of art. In this painting, there is a lot for us to discover. For this original piece of work, and to help inspire more of our community’s artists to contribute their own works of art, this painting wins our runner-up prize!

3 HSBI and 500 Ecency Points coming your way!

Compliment of the Month

From @nkemakonam89, this compliment gives thanks to the our post of the month winner in the post that she wrote expressing compliments towards her! It’s an all-around circle of appreciation and compliments. Her genuine surprise and joy at receiving the compliments, and reciprocating with such love, renders it as our winner of Compliment of the Month.

Also, worth mentioning, her compliment received 3x more votes than any of our other posts, compliments, and non-compliment comments! Very impressive.

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

And for our runner-up:

From @thebighigg, this compliment both gives a positive vibe towards the poster’s choice of how he’s spending his New Year, encouraging a bright future, asking about a prior problem he had (which is close attention to detail!), and sharing his own relevant experiences. This is the core of communication: thebighigg truly understands the power of connecting on a basic human level in order to make a genuine compliment and conversation, which is why his compliment is more than worth of our runner-up 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 @spoonies, describing many of the difficult trials she’s gone through with her health, including back in her childhood. This highly personal statement, which she was brave enough to share with us despite the fears she’s had with sharing in the past, is an example of the type of free speech that we encourage – so that anybody will feel open sharing as much as they feel is appropriate. Not to mention, her health has taken a recent downturn, and we’d like to bring out some good feelings, so for what it’s worth, congratulations on winning this little prize of ours!

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 February 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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