Thank you! I will do my best to be fair to everyone who submits.
Who knows, if this is successful, maybe we can collaborate and work on some other creative contests (Ones that aren't "for each 10 upvotes I will take off one piece of clothing", or "guess how much this post will be worth at the end"). Those are simple gimmicks, but I feel this contest has the potential to keep a writer here who is frustrated, or a new peson who may be excited to realize that this actually works!
I love creative contests, and there are plenty of opportunities to tailor to your own skills, whatever they may be.
Even if I wind up paying $50 steem dollars and other small rewards to the other two posters, I haven't invested my own money into steemit yet, so I feel I should be investing in new people to bring long term value.
Even if steemit were to collapse tomorrow, I would still maintain connections with those I count as friends here, even though I may not have ever met them in person yet.
do you mind if i ask why you want them to email submissions rather than say writing a post within a set time frame say 24 hours? they could submit in a set format say the title as a highlighted link with a brief description of their post which must have the contest tagged in it, I feel this would help send more traffic to more newbies in the same way the photo comp receives a lot of attention with the $50. and the 2 smaller prizes being a bonus.
I'd love to collaborate it may be an idea t have a team of judges as I can see this getting to big for one person very quickly.
I'm down! Email me and we can trade contact info and get the ball rolling. I'm more than happy to collaborate with someone like you that can add to my ideas and vice versa. I truly get tired of the people whining about not making money when if the took the same time and wrote a decent article, they would be rewarded with $50 steem dollars. Maybe we can collaborate and come up with the next contest together and post it on the subsequent post along with the 3 best user's posts. I have some ideas to change the contest too. But if you don't mind telling a few other users who might be interested or discouraged I'd greatly appreciate it.