Just a short post to remind everyone that if you are a newcomer to the Hive and started on the platform 1st July 2021 or later, that you have only a few days left to enter the "Paying it Forward" (#PIF) contest. Please don't miss out on your chance to earn some extra POB to improve your voting power.
EDIT: I was unable to tag everyone until today and so have decided, in fairness to all, to extend the contest until midnight Wednesday 15th Sep GMT to allow for more participation :-) Winners will be announced on Friday 17th Sep and prizes paid the same day :-)
The contest link is here together with the requirements needed to enter.
We have a couple of entrants so far but I'd love to see feedback from a lot more of you as it is feedback like this that can help to shape the platform and the community :-) You will also put yourself in line for some nice POB prizes to get you going on your journey.
I am tagging everyone below who joined Hive from 1st July onwards - thank you @steevc for the report :-)
@cool.cool, @walkinverse, @kafayat122, @ayanfe01, @onwugbenevictor, @mumbra9, @aliamsy, @arkeray1, @adnan.aldaim, @ghostwar, @tedus, @amaillo, @xregios, @ferdian15, @preets, @toyfizat01, @insight.pob, @serenay, @molly111, @turgay05, @netizen01, @sunrose, @strypes39, @mike.cupcakes, @gyp.karina11, @hive-115712, @rahulwani, @manikhan08, @maungthan, @warmgentlekind, @smoita, @franvenezuela, @kavish12, @faithetim, @josephdaniel567, @lisszzbisu, @nosa4life, @dlmmqb, @eil7304, @josedward, @shubhwaj.pob, @onewolfe, @thegolden, @thenortherner, @dimitrov93, @clara96, @alex81sgbull, @narumisweety, @isiaqadeniyi, @sevdaa, @nstruck, @googlemap, @annisaf, @ojuaprosper, @rye143, @audrein, @banzafahra, @limfamily, @viviankay00, @femikizz, @scissors123, @precious008, @nerdylens, @maungak1l1, @mukoro, @maui7, @danyadarcia, @ilianna, @halilpasa2, @coromoto20, @xensational, @rc24-bbsmdapp, @princekham, @makable, @coolpoolparty, @pdf-nug, @mantis-tobaggon, @lordemmy, @new.things, @tub3r0, @alexanderkal77, @nvaldi, @xgamecorner, @thereos, @ellie-mai, @unblindphoenix, @thura07, @frost77, @solsticia, @ricoblex, @barrywyte, @sealandsalalah, @irfan329, @farid21, @foyem, @saykha, @clara80, @revren, @inaayarabi, @ko-hnin13052019, @serjeant, @stfu0821, @kuchyzee, @whickey, @agreste, @brainproofer1, @alania, @alovely088, @marcus.israel, @cjabellera3, @master-ohis, @nachocheese, @anglinasimth, @revises.pob, @dimascatillo90, @tomasjurado, @ariuss, @beeber, @hudsonjr1, @resoresor, @shakmaya55, @hardez14, @dgustavo, @utopia90, @hyansen, @homsi, @tub3r02, @samuel2005, @doziekash, @knowledge23.pob, @trenloco, @crisvera, @durlan, @dyeybi1996, @jonas0503, @amphlux.ecency, @strangenomad, @clamarin, @marshmellowman, @monstergame, @flipflopcrypto, @bombo2000, @marykay7, @iamhafix, @therealtj00, @hive-199021, @amandaferreiracr, @arlis-sunflower, @zengin, @blutengel, @hiveboost, @josephmark, @salma528, @winelay, @thechainboy, @antonietagg, @paolodiaz, @jose234fndz, @itmevu101, @kethel, @babsgirl, @angely11c3, @hemma7, @parves21, @afridany1234, @fahlah, @miles101, @dambele, @oriyomi248, @apfeff, @shuvobd1, @haydenhirzel12, @surjosinha, @lynnnguyen, @sarah.lindley, @beyondhorizonmm, @dylangrimes00, @mackenziejones, @dilucadomain, @anniess, @alan8a, @jacewat, @cypherhd, @llyran-noble, @kanwalsaeed, @dbruce, @katelynhl01, @danielhope2233, @lirioapc, @raldridge, @anto012, @marshallokey, @splinterdany, @rabibul, @nilarwin, @mularh, @kimloan, @rayjose, @bokripto, @nusrat01, @montros, @life.cruiser, @coolkris, @amcrypto, @dprudent, @landon.bakhsh, @gurosodeeq, @promzycee, @winnietran, @marveletse, @newtonquach, @stickupofficial1, @saimaali, @techoe, @reagan.sturges, @honouronyedum1, @phemia, @jkp.nisha, @beegold, @cakepop, @iam-perry, @mirnaromer, @lavender22, @endangeredcrypto, @musicline, @sam108, @trekdung, @ming56, @tasonya, @peter91, @samuel2008, @anniebburg, @abogcoronado, @newfella, @kathysteele, @leighwelch, @agungz, @jctv, @samuel210, @stonemasoner, @malikameen, @junierisme, @shillit.baby, @lycango, @eolianpariah2, @americanorj, @gerito26, @cinematic09, @sayalu, @paulfromkigali, @emma-maku, @peaccc, @dora381, @jazzy07, @goziem, @wisema, @d1homid, @beckygold, @samuel2011, @maxlucky, @yepherson17, @anonimato07, @linn901, @one.alfa.pob, @theherbalhive, @keronsiriri, @acheee, @fikif, @john-brain, @bab.pob, @aino.tapani, @honouronyedum, @whynotcamp, @d-6ix-art, @suagm, @komoshi, @proofofauthor, @mysteriousplaces, @samuel2012, @guerreroleyenda, @phyothuzar, @yunarahmania, @sam5689, @cuiddy, @iramsaheen, @sanelica81, @animehentai, @zioley, @hashtag-booster, @olarewaju, @abdul-qudus, @karim99, @minat4danzy, @youregrader, @myrv, @samaliu01, @axieinfinitymx, @saboor.khan, @akubillionaire, @samuel2016, @bernardinetti, @ai5, @isdarmady, @josephinto2, @lovepob, @beautyofnature2, @monochromebeauty, @plantpoweronhive, @riansilva, @simolestomequedo, @sylviaijay, @pawelszymanski, @cadubr, @richmondgodwin, @ashinn, @iskafan, @worldsmysteries, @vdlazzaretti52, @hackspada, @syibral-malasy, @jin-out, @pobtrader, @destinee1234, @froeschle
@keltickings @annypat @benoindriago @mysteriesofworld @alamin05 @safdarsultan @jops @commentcuration @commentcuration @stockage @quijadita14 @floor93 @sonofluna @peping @optimistically @amaranto @catword @kiko2max @raqraq @karocont2011 @jensenart @aohtrooper1 @innovator05 @cryptosota @garcondiable @mrblow @kuse6051 @megatee @tanveer741 @daaf1490 @kaeraser @dayerlinvazquez @leynnerm29 @emilyma @fanelisf19 @twicejoy2 @butlerbild @flsfserkan @funshee @kerwinjz @kerwinjz @crimsoncrown @panku @aweee @raitolight @thankmelaterguys @easydefi @prince-anyaobi @imla-iim @tahminasyed @lotus-es @forgottenuser @oluwaperry001 @nat.ortiz @ivycrafts @yaneliendro @yaneliendro @my1440 @lagosfirstborn @ebike-adventure @draafnaa @huang-hsin @unclesyam @mijan11 @zohu @harold182 @jonathanromero01 @ogunsakiz1 @hayat221 @dikes @finetune30 @aliengum23 @magnacarta.buzz @newman42 @ibukunrebecca @nikkybabe @lapotrona @rule07 @whitecatascend @nonsowrites.pob @aleksdi @timmzey @ochedi @energidoctor @moukthikaadas @xosome5 @despiertoivan @adani @george-dee @vmozy @rosyadah @rosyadah @asklanbudi @sophiapics29 @mihaela.popova @xaynie.lee @freedomprepper @voicesofliberty @rexplanet @zazufund @sarjaria84 @chincoculbert @marthaisela @tarlsm @chiomclara @opghypeman @jaineth @esperosh1ve @zainvirtual @danokoroafor @lionfund @ekotmordemy @bergf @hadatruji @geom @gerrybravoo @vicortas @anarama @rapha-el7 @mlemica @proton80 @iyiade @infinitetrees @prepamers @teukuboyhaqie @katirayo @josephab @larrozzy @healthwriter @profdanzy @germer @ayobabz001 @odris35 @esthery-ayaba @radhruin @enlightenednutri @nasri11 @emacomez @hitasyurek @mrymkrdk @timzey @vacnuo @rymzo123 @burodaade @wongi @afrojas5 @anilawred @maria1412 @zygrush @vodact @lyrazed @parissousa @raihanah @fahlahtino @mariuc @soycori11 @teegold96 @stickyickymemes @arexxuru @omera70 @rottencrypto @cryptonumbers @nvaldi @precious008 @thereos @maui7 @audrein @nstruck @manikhan08 @turgay05 @adnan.aldaim @walkinverse @xgamecorner @nerdylens @ojuaprosper @halilpasa2 @limfamily @googlemap @maungthan @sunrose @ghostwar @kafayat122 @josedward @sevdaa @rye143 @lordemmy @scissors123 @annisaf @warmgentlekind @strypes39 @preets @ayanfe01 @rahulwani @insight.pob @mumbra9 @mike.cupcakes @toyfizat01 @onwugbenuvictor
My experience so far
I won't sugar coat it, using the hive Blockchain and it's social media front ends has been a daunting task, you basically have to be ready to study like you were still in college! But overall, it is a wonderful experience, I get to learn something new everyday, and even get paid for just being social and expressing myself.
One of my confusion is the fact that the hive social platforms are not really social, but more of a giant collection of blogs, writers and readers. I believe the word social should include being able to make real friends not just followers, to post about how you feel at the moment or upload a cool photograph you just took without needing to write an epistle along with just so you can garner more upvotes and make money. I don't think I've even seen any community dedicated to connecting those in search of love or a relationship.
I know the hive community is still in its infancy, I'm just hoping that in the future, this concerns of mine would be addressed and hopefully, the social platforms become truly social. Thanks😊
Woohoo! Teamwork makes the DreamWork. This account is for my future RV. I am logged in on Ecency and post about travel, recreation vehicles, and how I am saving HBD. Thanks for the shout out!
Hello everyone, although new to the community of Hive, since the beginnings of steem I have been a passive observer. With Hive I decided to test the system and signed up via ecency. I have encountered many problems that demotivate newcomers. I have a list of over 30 bad experiences. (But also a longer list of good experience). Here are 3 examples of bad experiences:
The positives are far superior, but what leaves me on this platform is:
In the case of your community, from the start I followed it and put it in my favorites. It attracted me, by its name (Proofbrain) and by some of its contents.
Looking forward to interacting with this community and all the others ...
Welcome @ mondhero. You make some very valid points. This is a big part of what this contest is all about. Sharing both the good and the bad so that issues can also be highlighted and addressed and the Hive can keep getting better for all concerned. Thank you :-)
Wow, thanks for the competition for newbies on hive. It will really encourage us to be active as well as extend our circle of friendship here. I have been navigating my way slowly and smoothly ever since @ddn688 introduced me to hive. Hopefully we all will enjoy our stay here and produce nice contents for our esteemed audience. Long live the hive!!! Happy to be here indeed.
Yeah boss.
Am glad that you're here.
!ALIVE
!giphy welcome
Via Tenor
Thank you sir. I appreciate
!ALIVE
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Welcome my friend to the contest :-)
Thank you so much, I appreciate
Mehn...that's a lot of newbies ayyyeee 😌😌.. I'm glad you're consistent..you're making big moves and need a lot of support. Sorry I'm late in seeing the post about your challenge, I've just been really sick this week, trying to recover but haven't really had the chance to see a doctor.
Goodluck with your contest, I'll reblog so more people can see it..God bless you @samsmith1971
Oh Chinco, I hope you feel better soon mate! get to the doc... you need to look after yourself 🙏And yes, there's quite a few newcomers again although I have tagged everyone from Aug-21 onwards and just remembered I still need to retag everyone from Jul-21 too as they are also still eligible 😜More work for me lols
Yeah I sure will, don't worry I'll get better !!..
Lol, mehn that's a hell lotta work o, I hope you don't stress yourself too much dear.. Goodluck 😌
ha ha , turns out it actually let me copy paste the entire list from last month's contest lols, so easy peasy and done!
First, it's refreshing to see that, a whole lot of people are joining the platform. It's a good sign.
This is a lovely initiative. Too bad that I'm above this now. Lol
When I joined few months ago, initiatives of this nature made it easier for me to navigate around here.
Thanks for stopping by @mmykel. Always great to engage with you :-) You are welcome to engage in the comments section with the newbie contestants and who knows, you may win one of the engagement prizes up for grabs - check the contest prizes - not all for newbie entrants ;-)
I have done that, it was quite fun reading through.
Hi.I was pleasantly surprised to be noticed and tagged here.It's a compliment.Have a nice Sunday.
Thank you, and to you too. I hope you find the time to enter the contest newbie contest and to engage with the other new people in the comments. You can put yourself in with a chance to earn some POB on both fronts :-)
hi everyone, it's great to see all the entries coming in. Some truly great comments so far too. Keep them flowing :-) I wanted to take this opportunity to provide a little tip about post tags. When you use tags for your posts, please ensure that you are making optimum use of them by ensuring that they are relevant to your content and to the communities in which you are posting. By using inappropriate tags, you create two issues: 1) you add to the pile of curation for the person who curates that tag and your article will be discarded anyway if it doesn't meet the requirements of the tag (so you waste the time of a fellow Hiver), and 2) you do yourself a disservice on 2 counts: Firstly, you are wasting one of your maximum 10 tags allowed on a post on something that is not relevant to your post and therefore won't earn you optimum curation rewards or exposure. Secondly, you risk creating discord with those who do curate the misused tag, if you continue to use it incorrectly. So before you use a tag, make sure you know what it is for; it's in your own best interests. And I will say, I have misused tags before myself when I first joined, and was called out for it. I had simply copied what others were doing, and I suspect that this may be the case here too ;-) I say these things from a place of deep respect and wanting you all to succeed and be the best you can be on the Hive as well as wanting to keep improving things on the Hive :-) As an example I have seen the misuse of the tag "POB-WOTW" this week on a number of articles about the state of the cryptocurrency market. This tag is the tag used for a weekly contest started by @calumam where a word of the week (WOTW) is given out to the Proof of Brain community (POB) to write an entry in 7 days around that word. If you look up @scholaris (who is managing the contest for a while whilst @calumam takes a break) or @calumam you will see examples of the contest and I would encourage you to follow them both so as to be aware when each contest drops and challenge yourself to enter these weekly contests. They are great opportunities for engagement and growth. 🙏💗
A lot of people had joined the platform. Hehehe.
Good to see them all
I already made my entry
And thanks so much for the good work and encouragement to do more.
I hope to be like you some day.
Thank you so much once again
Don't you know it, hey? :-) That took me a helluva long time to type out 😂😂😂
Yeah. I know.
You really tried so much. Good job done.
We continue to appreciate.
Good to see you too!
Holaaa Gracias por tomarnos en cuentaa! estare pendiente haber si me animo a participar!
Oh, por favor entra. No es tan difícil, una vez que empiece a marcar los requisitos y me encantaría ver su respuesta. I used Google translate for this so I hope it did a good job of translating my reply ;-) which was: Oh please do enter. It is not that difficult, once you start ticking off the requirements and I'd love to see your response.
Wait...how do you know i am new here? Anyway thanks for finding me and tagging me!
lol, I used a Hive SQL report from a fellow Hiver :-) Welcome to the Hive and I hope to see an entry from you if you have the time :-)
I just got here, no POB, nothing 🥺
Don't worry @iskafan, we were all there once🤗 If you'd like to enter this month's edition then you only need to meet 3 of the 4 criteria listed and write up a comment. If this is not feasible for you in the time remaining (til Wednesday as I have just extended the contest), then you can look out for ed no. 3 next month :-) In the meantime you can still enter the engagement element of the contest and make a meaningful comment on somebody else's entry comment, or on the contest post and you'll still be in with a chance of winning some POB :-) I see you have some Hive delegation. Did you use: https://giftgiver.site/
If not, you can always go there and enter your Hive user name without the @ sign and get a small delegation of about 16 Hive to help you along while you are new ;-)
Yes ma'am I already used giftgiver, and I am grateful for the 16hp delegation that I received
But it's not enough, I can't make comments on other people's posts because I am worried my RC will be exhausted
Currently, I have 4 days before it's charges fully
I only stick to writing posts and replying to comments on my posts so that it doesn't finish 😴
For now, just limit yourself to curating and upvoting a few articles per day. You can usually do 5-10 upvotes at 100% without exhausting it. ust keep an eye.
Thank you very ma'am. I'll manage it
Me too, didn't even know POB was a thing...
I'd love to make an entry about my experience so far, but I don't know if I can do it on this particular post I'm commenting on now
hi @eil7304 and welcome to the Hive :-) You may post your entry comment on this post or follow the link in this post to the original contest post and create your comment there. I will curate comments on BOTH posts so no problem. Provided you meet at least 3 of the criteria on the original contest post, you may enter ;-)
Ok boss, thanks
Thanks so much for being committed to such a great task, i have just gone through the post and have done justice, i believe this is just the beginning, more is on the way, once again thank you to you all and stay safe.
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Check out the last post from @hivebuzz:
Thank you for the mention really, i missed the contest post,
and beside i thought i wont be qualify for this round.
Hola, gracias por esta oportunidad de para entrar y participar, estaré atenta a los requerimientos para entrar y poder aplicar al concurso.
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Hello, thank you for this opportunity to enter and participate, I will be attentive to the requirements to enter and apply to the contest.
That's great! I look forward to reading your entry comment :-)
¡Eso es genial! Espero leer tu comentario de entrada :-)
Hoping I just didn't make it on this list, having joined after July 1st; commented on the main post and meet all criteria. Thank you for this contest! I'm excited to see what HIVE has in store for me and I am absolutely loving this POB community. Thanks!!
You are welcome, what in particular are you loving about the POB community? I'd love to hear more from you as it's my favourite community to write in and was one of the first I discovered! I am still finding new communities on the way that I am also falling in love with; where the most amazing people can be found, so I now find myself writing across a broader range of communities, but I still come back to POB all the time.
Personally, Monday's I post Psilocybin-related growth and activism posts, Tuesday's scientific growth methods for different petri dish mediums and growth mediums (continuing) and my daily adventuring! Not too sure if these are entirely within the limits of POB; I also post to #urbex once a week or two, but intend to post more knowledgeable posts in the future initiating elaborate discussions with commentors and those that interact with those posts I make with direct relation to POB. I am enjoying reading through POB and am starting to get a general direction of where I want to go, so I sincerely hope at least one person will find some information I have to spew out, interesting, or entertaining at the least, haha!
Thanks for tagging me, I really appreaciate it, that's plenty of tags you got there. I was just about to start my introduction post at this time this is definitely a great help, I just hope I can manage my time here on Hive even though my school class will start tomorrow.
Thank you! I appreciate the link!
"Paying it Forward" (#PIF).
Hello friends blessings, I did not manage to participate in this post. I know you are doing a great job. Thank you so much for encouraging us to participate in the...congrats to the winners.
You will be able to join in next month still, so don't worry. I'm still working through the entries for ed.2 so the results are not out yet, but they will be soon ;-)
Excellent 🤗😘
Awesome! I'm not entirely sure I've done all the requirements but I sure have been trying my butt off to make a name for myself in the hive. I'm not doing so bad if I do say so myself!
hey @frost77, good to see you here :-) Looks to me like you've qualified. Go ahead and write your entry comment. I'm very interested to hear about what you have to say from your time on the Hive so far as I know you have been very active as an author in all sorts of communities and very engaged in the comments section too :-)
Where do you want me to post this at?
hey, you can post it here in the comments if you want to, or in the comments of the original contest post. Up to you, I will be curating both and all comments across both the main post and reminder post will be counted!
I'll just post it right here, right now.! Because that's the type of person I am! I'm what you call a go getter. If I see something I want, I fixate on it. And I find a way to manifest it into reality!
I joined the Hive about a month and a half ago or so and you know I've had a lot of fun posting here! I've already experienced ups and downs along the way and you know it's easy to say that I got frustrated when they tried to hit me for plagiarism. Especially since I had written the material that they were saying was plagiarism.
But I digress because you know it wasn't plagiarism but it definitely could have been handled better personally I should have given the credit to the people that had helped me write it which was taken care of this whole nonsense was squashed. And then my writing the next couple of stories were too graphic for the hive. I'm a horrific writer well I'm an awesome writer but I write horrific things. So I have had to tone myself down and venture into different prospects of my writing career. I also follow the splinter lands and I post updates and I run my own guild and a lot of things that have to do with splinterlands.
Actually it's because of the splinter lands that I am here with you guys today!!
I've also posted quite a few things about my current location which is going to be changing in a couple of months. I'm going to be moving from Colorado to Florida and I can't wait on this Florida a lot.
There is much more to come from me on the hive I I found homeI this is definitely the place I'm going to be for a long time. Nothing that I would say for any new member of hive is that you never know what you can do until you try and even if you get hit and knocked to the ground you got to get back up and try again you keep trying no matter what and eventually you going to succeed.
I don't know if this will work for your introduction post or whatever the heck kind of posts you needed but this is what you're going to get because yeah I'm feeling like a million dollars right now and I'm pretty proud of who I am.
Hi.I was pleasantly surprised to be noticed and tagged here.It's a compliment.Have a nice Sunday.