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blue diamonds
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Sep 1, 2011 4:32am
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Ok so my friends box went to a blue diamond last month. This month it is not a blue diamond. We thought when you get a blue diamond it stays a blue diamond. Is that not the case? It can be taken away from you?
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Reply to: #635707 by Spoiled Rotten
Sep 1, 2011 4:52am
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We thought when you get a blue diamond it stays a blue diamond.

Nope, I've had a couple of blue diamonds go away. I don't get excited about it because I know they could go away the very next month. After the diamond stays on for a few months, I figure it won't go away too easily, though.

Not only can just one vote remove a diamond from a box, but people can remove their own blue diamond unknowingly. I added a box to the series in Animal Friends and this caused the diamond to disappear for a little while. You have to have had all boxes in the series active for a month on the first day of the month and even though the plant date still shows the same date as the other boxes in the series, AQ knows that particular box wasn't listed for an entire month and the diamond disappears. You can also lose diamonds because only the top 5% of boxes are blue diamonds and there may just be boxes with higher votes than your box.
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Reply to: #635707 by Spoiled Rotten
Sep 1, 2011 7:00am
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I have had two series that earned blue diamonds. They were diamonds for about 8-10 months each and now both have disappeared. It was rather disappointing, too, because I felt honored to have earned the blue diamond. Oh well..........on to new plants.
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Reply to: #635742 by Squirrel Nutkin
Sep 1, 2011 8:24am
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I am amazed by how many people really get caught up in this entire add/removing blue diamonds every month.

I already know which of the boxes I have planted are the special ones and which ones aren't. And therefore I don't worry about whether they have a BD or not. I don't need others to validate my opinions for me.
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Reply to: #635742 by Squirrel Nutkin
Sep 1, 2011 8:34am
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I felt honored to have earned the blue diamond. Oh well..........on to new plants.

What a great attitude! I wish we were closer and could find your traditional boxes. Your LTCs are blue diamonds in my book!
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Reply to: #635758 by Eidolon
Sep 2, 2011 9:15am
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I know a lot of people don't care if others like their boxes or not, I'm not one of them. I know that I would enjoy finding boxes like the ones I plant, but I don't put them out for me, I put them out for others to find. I don't check AQ every month to see if I got a new blue diamond or to see if I lost one or more, but I do check how my boxes rate against each other every couple of months. That information combined with comments that people make when recording my boxes helps me make decisions on future plants. I'm hoping to plant boxes that I'm not only proud of, but that those finding them really enjoy.
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Reply to: #635707 by Spoiled Rotten
Sep 2, 2011 7:43pm
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Reply to: #636152 by Moose on the Loose
Sep 17, 2011 5:49am
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How do you check how your boxes rate against each other? I was looking for that a couple days ago and wasn't seeing it? TIA
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Reply to: #640416 by DDDCMJ Express
Sep 17, 2011 5:58am
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Hit letterboxes at top of page( it's not in drop down)- you'll see it under box ratings