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I fixed it to direct pixabay links for each pic... but I'm not sure why this came on your radar. They are from pixabay

So I can upvote without feeling guilty :)

Also, I still never heard back about anything from the @chronocrypto contest, do you guys work together? It thought you did by the way you asked me to link the contest rules etc?

I asked you. I'm not affiliated with chronocrypto. I also looked through things and your right and I don't know what happened with your 2SBD
I was asking because I wanted clarity. I don't like "accusations" without evidence. But since I've seen the evidence I have to aggree that something seems strange with the whole situation

ahh ok. Agreed. I saw your post comments with some guy defending his "make 400% guaranteed" post haha. and that guy that came to his defense was hilarious . So silly. But yeah the Chrono thing kind of bugs me because he promised a REALLY big pay out - 100 sbd, and has done nothing except continue to boosts his own posts. I'm sure he was thinking that offering such a huge payout would attract a lot of attention and he would make money and followers, but since only a handful of people submitted he doesn't feel like paying out and is just continuing with self promotion. That kind of stuff really irks me, and then for him to comment back to me like I was being impatient or unreasonable, very manipulative.

at least I found you account from that. I like writing. It feels personal. For me as a reader its one of the few times I feel touched personally. I know its not the point of your writing. But I think each person that writes and each person that reads gains something personal from the experience.

Concerning chrono. I'm not making assumptions. But I will be on the lookout for him if he tries to do something similar again.

Quite frankly though a 2SBD as a precaution against spam is just hilarious. I'm spending a lot of time on steem these days and I'm concentrating on choosing good people to follow, and not so much producing (although that might come later)

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So the idea of charging is to guard against spam, I can see that . And thank you, I guess something good did come of it after all haha

What spam? Seriously its a stupid "reason" imo. The only reason I can see for this would be to "make money" seriously. Competitions shouldn't be for making money. (At least I hope not.)
On the other hand. I "could" start my own compition XD win 1 SP Just upvote and resteem and send me a memo with a link to your story :\ XD (As a precaution against spam ofcourse cough)