First, I would like to thank everyone that contributed to last week's writing contest. There were a lot of good entries not to mention that I have grown close to many of you so choosing the winners was hard. Eventually, I had to resort to choosing the entries with the most upvotes. and the winners are:
First place: @rahul.stan with 11 upvotes
Second place: @patelincho with 7 upvotes
Third place: @pairmike with 4 upvotes
The winners have all received their whaleshares. Enjoy, they were definitely earned.
This week's contest
This week I want to focus on building the steemit community. I am busy building more tools for use with the steem blockchain and building our community and want to see what you guys can do too. With that in mind, this week the topic for the writing contest is what you can do to benefit the steemit community. This can be anything from developers building tools to bringing new users to the platform to anything else you think would benefit the community. The choice is yours. Just write a post about it and post it in the comments. The rewards will be the same as last week: 500 for first place, 300 for second place and 100 for third place. Good luck and happy steeming!
Be sure to catch us on discord! https://discord.gg/RRDzn6c
My entry:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@maya7/thank-you-steemit-and-a-few-things-i-can-do-to-help-steemit
Excellent post!
You win second place! Leave me your bitshares/openledger username and I'll send your whaleshares.
Thanks.
My openledger username is: maya7
I only received 100 whaleshares. I believe the second prize is 300. :)
Ooops, I'm sorry... I got my contests confused. I'll send the rest now.
No problem. :)
Attention @Cheetah ´s - I hope that @jphenderson is clever enough to distinguish honest entries from cheating ones ... 40+ votes in 7 hours? sure why not ... luckily me eSteem app shows me the time of voting, like https://steemd.com does, and it´s obvious that the entry from @maya7, @fatpandadesign and @skinnythames were upvoted by voting bots ...
actually i was also thinking if i should post my reply via eSteem to get 12+ votes, but i thought that would have been to obvious ... i´m here for the community, not for the money and for the craving of it ...
@maya7
@fatpandadesign
@skinnythames
all got upvotes by mostly the same names, not at exactly the same time, but 14-20 votes were given at one and the same time ...
actually i was the one who invited @fatpandadesign to this contest, but i guess i won´t invite him anywhere in the future ... i´m also part of his minnow fb group, which i guess i´ll eventually leave
@jphenderson, if you need the screenshots fot better reading let me know via steemit.chat - or you can check out by yourself
https://steemd.com/
Love, Flurgx
So this is cheating? Hmm...
if this isn´t i don´t know what is .. we are on a blockchain guys ... you can not hide shit like this! but if you need that shares so desperately, then go ahead - i give you mine voluntary - life is not about money ... you should actually know that with the history you are coming from ...
and the last word has @jphenderson, he has to state if this is cheating in his eyes or not
@maya7 is my mother's account. She was on the top with 8 votes when I saw that people were using bots to vote for themselves. I only used the bot votes to counter the others.
But if it is cheating and since I can't remove the votes then I request @jphenderson to not count the votes between 2017-06-15T06:24:24 and 2017-06-15T06:38:21 . Because in that timeframe the bot votes occured.
That will make it fair.
thanks for your reply @rahul.stan - i´m not quite sure, but i don´t think that this contest was intended to be a "who got the better voting bot" contest ...
anyways i think the "who got the most votes" way of determining the winner has a flaw in itself ... maybe @jphenderson or the community itself can figure out a way to determine winners in contests, other than the upvote count ..
the price is very hot here, so the temptation is huge to cheat ...
you are at least honest enough to say that you used a bot ...
@fatpandadesign ignored me, laughed at me and kicked me out of the facebook group .. yeah ... a real sportsman :D
see u around
I have tried to be fair. But seeing others cheat I had had to take this drastic step.
Hope @jphenderson can see behind this. She worked hard on this post. And I couldn't stand seeing someone cheat to win it.
thanks for your help... I was already onto that.
If you disqualify the "bot" votes (which are majority just actual users who followed our trail) that's fine - i've gone and secured at least 40+ non "bot" votes from other people who want to help me pay it forward. We have a member in our group who is in need and if i win this, a good chunk is going her way to make up for what was stolen from her. So however you decide to handle this, I respect that, but I've played fair the past few days and gotten plenty of votes from other people. The timestamps will prove this. Thank you for your consideration and however this plays out I respect your decision.
my entry is for the expansion of STEEM into the rest of the web via a new integration model: https://steemit.com/steemit/@ura-soul/increase-the-value-of-steem-exponentially-an-app-to-add-steemit-features-to-wordpress-and-other-social-platforms
That will greatly benefit not only our community but others as well. Excellent entry!
This is my entry @jphenderson. Thanks so much.
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@cryptodog/boom-how-steemit-can-help-the-most-vulnerable-animals-on-the-streets-in-developing-countries-boom
What a wonderful initiative! Excellent entry!
Thank you so much @jphenderson!
Hi @jphenderson, has the results for this competition been announced?
I wrote an article yesterday about genetics and the collapse of human kind if we don't notice and change the trend lines we are on!
https://steemit.com/life/@thearcanebear/safety-and-comfort-allow-people-to-act-selfishly
Excellent post! I wish I had more time to discuss this at the moment as you touch on a lot of things that I have studied quite a bit. Perhaps some other time.
Of course, it was just a wave that rolled over me. I live alone in the jungle. I myself have more than enough space. I do not find myself in the mice utopia, but i can watch it from a far!
A lot of it has to do with the availability of resources too. Fewer resources lead to smarter and stronger creatures of all kinds. I can't recall the terms for it but there's a lot of scientific research done about it. Of course, you don't hear about it much but it's there.
of course, we are hard wired to survive, when we see luxury we are drawn to it cause its so rare to naturally find! Now we have created and live in it constantly we have become very different animals than we used to be!
Very true.... Basically you want a balance. If things are too easy you get the mouse utopia problem but if things are too hard you get the PTSD problem. Ideally, you should be able to get the rewards with a reasonable amount of work.
Let's hope so, otherwise I have no idea what the hell I am doing living on the side of the mountain in the jungle!
The more we know the better!
I put together a FAQ page to help people learn about Steemit more quickly:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@doule/a-steemit-faq-especially-for-newbies-the-most-helpful-pages-start-here-and-get-up-to-speed-fast
Excellent entry! That is really helpful.
This is my entry:
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@eirik/we-all-have-something-to-share-with-the-rest
Hope you like it! :)
Excellent entry my friend.
Thank you The
Here is my submission:
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@qadesh/whaleshare-writing-contest-what-you-can-do-to-benefit-the-community-of-steemit
Thanks for the contest. It's always nice to participate and contribute to the community.
Excellent advice!
Hoping this would be a valid entry. Here is my post jp. Thank you! Game mode : ON.
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@jassennessaj/whaleshare-writing-contest-what-you-can-do-to-benefit-the-community-of-steemit
Good entry!
Thanks jp! Btw, how should we call you? I'm new here.
JP works for me... they also call me the walrus
I prefer calling you JP. Btw, I saw one of the post of #themanualbot being resteemed by you. He is my classmate. How is that possible? Can it also be done on my post? Just wondering JP. I am new to Steemit.
Here is my entrant into the contest oh mighty tusked observer https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@stargarden/steemwhales-writing-contest-entry-a-garden-s-intentions
Great entry!
I hope this one is considered to be an entry:
https://steemit.com/driving/@themanualbot/the-driver-s-manual-what-is-defensive-driving-ten-commandments-on-safe-driving-and-some-tips
that works but if I were you I would recommend doing the welcomebot post or writing a post about the welcomebot. You could promote it in the welcomebot and would probably give you a pretty good leg up.
Okay. I will work on that. :)
Here ismy entry :
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@patelincho/does-positive-thinking-help
Excellent post as usual my dear.
Thank you :)
I won the last one. Should I participate again or should I give this one up for others ? :)
That's up to you... I didn't make a rule against it
I think I'll pass and will give way for others to win :)
That's nice of you
I wrote this article in hopes to motivate my own community of peers to remain competitive on steemit. New ways to increase content creation, sharing, and wealth distribution. Keep in mind i am not a writer lol
https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@skinnythames/where-am-i-where-are-you
You win third place! Leave me your bitshares/openledger username and I will send your whaleshares.
That is incredible!! Thank you so much for your time and consideration i have a pretty incredible follwing i guess i owe it to them as well ill be putting this to good use ;)
My bitshares account name is skinny-thames666
Thats amazing thank you!! Its skinny-thames666
Excellent post!
Thank you i spent a good amount of time on it i was a little worried writing it but a friend told me im my own worst critic and told me to say fuck it lol im glad i did so far
I've had many good things come of me saying fuck it to my self criticism
More and more the people connected to me on here proove thats a true statement im really glad i said fuck it
Hahaha well i hope this case of fuck it really produces something i know my peers have it in them minnows dolphins guys who just joined veterans looking out for the little guys weve got a pretty incredible team producing all kinds of shit i might not be a creator but think of me as nikoli teslas conscience asking what if right before he came up with an invention or breakthrough for a huge group of creators . Ive only been on steemit about 3 weeks i think. I wouldnt be here in this contest with out them or my good friend and mentor ;) himself @fatpandadesign even if we dont win im proud to be in it and anything else to do with minnow support or incubator tank members and they deserve the publicity we are all very dedicated
Hey @jphenderson :D
Nice contest! I´m on steemit since 11 days now - I was totally pulled into it .. So I tried to get others into the boat as well ... Because there are so many English posts regarding that, I focused on the German community, it can definitely need a grow in numbers ...
So I wrote "why you should sign up on steemit"
https://steemit.com/deutsch/@flurgx/warum-du-dich-bei-steemit-anmelden-solltest
furthermore i started writing beginners guides
part1
https://steemit.com/steemit/@flurgx/steemit-fuer-anfaenger-die-grundlagen
part 2
https://steemit.com/steemit/@flurgx/steemit-fuer-semi-fotgeschrittene-und-solche-die-es-werden-wollen-ein-exkurs-payout-witness-out-of-sp
finally i was thinking about setting up a steemit online-radio channel
it hadn´t had the big impact that i thought it might have, but there was some specific response with the willing to work on that together, so this project is definitely in the pipeline ...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@flurgx/should-we-set-up-a-steemit-internet-radio-podcast-what-do-you-think
yep those are my contributions so far, still ongoing!
have a lovely one! peace out
Oh I didn't know about the project, had I known I would have participated
anyway now that I know, I am going to participate, thank you for this awesome contest :)
Hello, great initiative!
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about my UI improvement idea. The goal is to make posts more visible in the blog sausage. It may make things easier for the newcomers. For example I'd like to have each Steemian's intro post on the top of the page, so nobody has to scroll for 8-10miles :) Please check it out.
Here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@velimir/steemit-com-simple-abut-effective-interface-improvement-increases-value
Thank you so muchhhh :)
Here is my entry to the contest 👇https://steemit.com/motivation/@mother98/a-soldiers-pride-life-of-fauji
my entry
https://steemit.com/funny/@samhamou/i-was-in-a-porno-cinema-the-other-night
Hahahahaha that's funny
I think this could be good start. https://steemit.com/steemitcommunity/@olegw/steemit-national-community-identity-logo-branding-initiative-celebrating-10-th-logo
That is wonderful!
Thank you, hope more communities will join :)
This is my latest contribution for growth of Steemit community https://steemit.com/steemitcommunity/@olegw/steemit-one-big-family-promotional-video-for-steemit-communities)
Wrote something this week about the most easily missed golden cookie in steemit. Folks coming in from platforms like FB simply tend to upvote and forget something more important. So hope this can be considered (& praying that I am not too late to get some more votes) :)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@nrajesh/the-day-steemit-runs-to-the-ground
Great contest. Since i am a non-technical guy, there is not much that I can contribute in that area.
Awesome, congrats to the winners!
Sick my brain is a tingling muah must ... must.... win
No I missed it! When is there going to be another one?
This one just started... you missed last weeks.
@jphenderson, i wouldnt say my post exactly bring direct benefits to steemians but rather my recent post is to inform them why they should exactly participate in CONTESTS and the benefits of Contests, like the one you are sponsoring now. Nice
https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatsupz/what-contests-brings-to-steemit
Nice! I like it.
wow 1000 steem contest price. really nice. I hope I will attend next competition. great idea and concept. upvote and follow
this is my entry :D @tioluis
https://steemit.com/help/@tioluis/help-needed-for-car-repair-3
I could use the help
Is this over?! I've been watching this like a little kid waiting for Santa on Christmas!!! :D
Yes you win! Leave me your bitshares/openledger username and I'll send your whaleshares.
WOOOOO this just made my day!!!
Hmm...I dunno if I have one? Let me set that up quick!
Oh wait I do - it's fatpanda21 (#270584) - thank you so much!
Sent! Enjoy
Thank you so much! so Whaleshares can be traded for Steem?
Kind of indirectly... here is the user guide for whaleshares so you'll know what they are: https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@jphenderson/whaleshares-user-guide
I figured it all out, but this is still really useful. Thanks so much again! :D You're awesome :)