**Closed** Week 10 - Pay It Forward Curation Contest
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Curators it's time to go out and find 2 high quality blog posts from steemians who's reputation score is level 50 or below and the bonus slot this week if 1 app, discord room, program, or group that has helped you with your steemit journey. This contest runs until June 9th at Midnight.
Week 10 Entry Post Format (No Changes)
For week 10 and future weeks you will need a curation style entry that includes 2 High Quality Original Content Blog Posts from Level 50 or Below Bloggers.
- Curation Style Post of 2 Bloggers who are posting Quality Original Content
- Link to 1 recent blog post per featured blogger. Keep in mind that many will follow this link and upvote so pick a post that isn't close to payout!
- Include a link to this contest in your entry post
- The 2 bloggers you curate Must Be Rank 50 or Lower!
- You need to comment on this post with a link to your post, this is how I track everything!
Optional: Themed 3rd Featured Blogger (New Theme)
New Theme for the Optional Featured Blogger! This week besides your 2 Mandatory Featured Bloggers the bonus Feature spot will be one for an app, discord room, program, or group that has helped you with your steemit journey.
My example for this will be the Pay It Forward Discord Room. The room is set up to help those in the contest be able to try and build even stronger relationships with each other. The goal is over time the room will help build a solid community of like minded people who will grow together and support each other along the way.
For this featured spot please link to rooms, accounts, apps, or whatever you have found to be helpful in your growth. Everyone should visit all posts this week and see if you can learn of new tools that might help you in your steemit growth!
👉👉Clarification for Quality Required for valid Entry👈👈
We are looking for Quality Original Content. We want to see no less then 200 words of original written content. So a single photo is fine as long as there is 200 words with it.
To make it easy to estimate 200 words figure there needs to be 12 lines of content.
Posts from Parley and dmania are not acceptable.
Prizes: Steem Basic Income
| This week at least 6 winners are going to get a sponsorship for @steembasicincome! |
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| There will be 1 SBI Sponsorship per 8 entries into the contest on a random basis (minimum of 2). |
| There will be 4 Judges Choice SBI Sponsorships awarded based the quality of the bloggers you feature in the eyes of our Judges, @erodedthoughts, @lynncoyle1, @energyaddict22, & @wolfhart. |
@steembasicincome is run by @josephsavage and is a great program designed to provide a lifetime income to members who have SBI Shares.
Prizes: Steem-Bounty
@steem-bounty of 3 SBD has been created. I will only upvote entries for the Author's 80% of the Bounty. No other comments will be upvoted as the goal is to reward those who enter the contest.
| @steem-bounty is run by @knircky and I'd like to ask that you set steem-bounty as a witness. In order to do so you can go to: https://steemit.com/~witnesses and enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote. |
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Contest Date Range
To make sure that there is time for all entries to be viewed and the featured bloggers all get the exposure which this contest is designed to provide we will be only taking entries from Tuesday- Saturday 11:59pm CDT (CDT is Central Daylight Time). Need this time to revolve around my time so I can make changes to the posts at a set time for me, midnight.
If your unsure how CDT converts this link should show you your local time for 11:59pm.
| Week 9's Winners Post will be on Wednesday June 6th 12:01am CST US. |
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| Week 10's Winners Post will be on Wednesday June 13th 12:01am CST US. |
| Week 11's Contest will start with a post on Tuesday June 12th 12:01am CST US. |
** Fair warning I will flag you if you are trying to boost your comment to get more of the bounty. This includes use of paid votes to increase your portion of the community side of the bounty.
Current Entries - Please Visit!!!
This is the real purpose of this contest, visit these posts and help upvote the bloggers featured. This list will be updated as new entries are added. Please check back during the week!!
Featured Blogger SBI Share Bonus
The featured bloggers of the Judges Choice winners will all get an SBI share! A total of 8 SBI shares will be awarded to these minnows! Below are the sponsors of this Bonus!
Week 10's Sponsors
@dynamicgreentk - 2 Shares Dynamic Steemians Discord
@bengy - 1 Share
@andrewharland - 4 shares
thehoneys - 1 Share
Wow! So here we go with Week 10! This thing just keeps rolling and it's fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing all the entries for this week. I can't imagine any reason not to make an entry. Free upvotes, make friends and connections, expand your audience, get paid.
Thanks again for keeping it all together @thedarkhorse
This will be the new account for Pay It Forward. Start following it now and give it upvotes to help power up the account. Will likely start using the account in a few weeks after there are some SBD payouts so we can lease some SP.
Hello! We just got done with our first pay it forward post!
https://steemit.com/@futurefarmers/week-10-pay-it-forward-great-people-and-bonus-feature
Thank you again.
Entry #17
Love the "theme" idea for this week! I'll be very curious to see what others come up with, as well as their featured steemians! Really good content last week for sure :)
Tell me, where on earth did the last 10 weeks go?? :) Time for me is pretty fluid, but with you keeping track like this, it's a bit of a weekly slap in the face haha
It is always hard to get enough words to show gratitude to #Payitforward.
Here is my week 10 entry to the contest.
Entry #2
I did not think I would get my entry in today but hey, here I am and with that, my entry for #Week10: https://steemit.com/curation/@imagendevoz/contest-week-10-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-by-thedarkhorse
Entry #4
Wait so I thought i sent you 7 steem?
Yes I am using it over a few weeks. So far I used 2 for last week and am using 2 for this week unless nobody else steps up and then I will use 3. Trying to get more people involved if possible.
This is the post for my entry. First time doing it so let me know if something needs to change: https://steemit.com/payitforward/@mightypanda/my-entry-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-10
Entry #11
Thanks for joining the contest! @freedomshift here is a first time entry.
I did not think I was going to submit one, but, here it is - my entry:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@freedomshift/my-entry-to-the-week-10-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-by-thedarkhorse
@freedomshift you are not missing any votes nor are the people you are featuring as the person that has an issue with you never has your post to curate, I make sure of that with the numbering. We hit a point a few weeks ago that we had to break up the posts into 2 groups and each group gets 2 Judges plus myself visiting them. The Judges were getting burned out and I didn't want to loose the great dedicated group of judges so we came up with a solution.
It's very easy to just assign you a number that isn't in that person's curation group and that way you are getting full exposure as are your featured bloggers as any other entry gets. I go out of my way to double check this each week to make sure there are no conflicts.
If for some reason you are feeling there is an issue or slighted in some way message me on discord and give me a minute to address it before posting about it. I don't like this page being cluttered with stuff like this when people are trying to find the entry comments to give out upvotes and reward people for their efforts.
Since you have stated you have gotten over it I trust that this is the last I will be reading about it on the contest posts.
@practicalthought sorry you felt like this might have had anything to do with you. It's an issue that goes back at least a month, probably 6 weeks and something I thought was dropped long ago.
Thank you, and deleted my rant.
@thedarkhorse - thank you for the clarification! I am over it, yes sir!
not worth complaining. just do your thing.
I am not complaining for my sake. I am only here to help newbies.
I apologize if there is some drama I am unaware of. Just wanted to say that it is really hard getting around to everyone. I know last week I didn't get to a third of the entries to look and vote. Votes as all of us know go really quickly. For example, I just logged in, and my vote power was barely above 83%. After upvoting the replies waiting for me, and the PIF post and yours, I am already down again to 79%.
I will admit I am discerning when I do go through the submissions. There are times I upvote the submission itself, but for whatever reason I do not personally click with the people being featured. I save those votes because I know there will be plenty to give votes to of those I would possibly click with, while also keeping in mind I want to make my own posts which I need voting power to interact with those kind enough to vote that and comment.
I would hope no one submitting ever takes it personally if I do not have enough voting power, or simply do not click with the submissions. I am discerning (as are the submissions accepted here) in who I upvote, hoping that the ones I do interact with can develop into a longer term association due to our shared interests. I can thankfully say I have found a few through this contest now where the both of us have clicked with one another. A large number of those I have reached out to for whatever reason did not find me to be the bastion of awesomeness, go figure, lol.
I think I speak for a fair number of people when I say you are well thought of here in the community, and your involvement in this challenge is one of leadership.
thank you for your kind words, @practicalthought! if you ever wonder, you have nothing to do with this. In a way, I have been reassessing my purposes here which might not be aligned with ...
(Not to dwell on it)
I have much to say and do outside of this ...
All the best!
btw, @lynncoyle1 introduced me to this contest and is a great supporter.
In the real world, I'll say "follow the money" and here, its "look at the voting ...
You have been invited to:
"6.9.18 Saturday (or Cat-turday - 😺 meow) To Launch or Not to Launch - that is the Question! Upvotes and Prizes 🏆🏅🐬 🐟 Give-away" - please click on #ccc to find the post.
All the best!
edited due to misunderstanding.
If you read the details of the initiative, it in no way will dilute the contest.
In fact, this initiative can build up to a better pool of candidates to then be featured in the contest or join this contest.
I am in no way leaving this contest! I have too much invested in this contest and no one can upset me enough to leave unless I am told by @thedarkhorse.
My apologies for misunderstanding. I have deleted my rant. Thank you for responding and good luck with your new project. Am glad you will be continuing on here.
thank you sir! I am doing the initiative to keep the contest going with fresh candidates. It already added at least one - just ask @mightypanda.
for those who do not want to go read it, it is simply:
It is not a contest. It is at will or daily at the most and most days, it might just newbies helping each other. Above all, no one owns it, not I or anyone else.
just to be clear, this initiative is akin to the call for participants who might qualify to be featured in the pay it forward contest.
The invitation is to the give-away of upvotes and prizes (SBD) through Sunday only.
Entry #10
Here is my entry to the #payitforward contest by @thedarkhorse:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@zanoni/my-entry-for-payitforward-contest-week10-a-heart-for-under-valued-steemians
Entry #1