I may enter this contest. I saw you comment on the one man who introduced himself by saying good bye. So, I love what you are doing with the avatar contests and I might be jealous that I didn't do that hehe. Now, I disagree with the Steemit guideline which seems to state that requiring upvotes to enter contests is maybe potentially spam or something. Now, yes, it may or may not be spam as that is pretty subjective as beauty is in the eye of the beholder and spam is probably the opposite of beauty and therefore still in the eye of the beholder. I would not force people to upvote myself.
However, I believe in free speech. I believe in the freedom to say what I want. So, if I want to tell you to upvote, I can say it. But that does not force you to upvote. And if I am spam, that is too bad maybe, but people can choose independently that I am spam and they can then choose to find other contests if I am spam or unfair or whatever the case may be. I believe that hate speech is included in free speech. Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and others try to say that anything that makes you feel unsafe is not allowed. What makes you feel unsafe may not make me feel unsafe and what makes me feel unsafe may not make you feel unsafe. Those are my two cents. But I am writing this while watching video reviews on Star Wars Last Jedi which some may like and some may consider to be like spam haha. I'm Oatmeal. Nice to meet you.
nice to meet you Oatmeal