This month I have made 11 posts which seems to be my average nowadays. I haven't been keeping tabs on exactly how much my stake has grown in the month, roughly around 1500HP it think, including the 100 HP I've powered up today.
Most of my other time on Hive this month has been busy fighting abuse - an Indonesia farm with at least 40+ accounts. I'm sure there are more in the farm which I haven't linked up yet. It's amazing how much effort people go into to manage so many accounts, posting low effort crap to milk 1 or 2 cents every day if they're lucky. If they could channel all that time and effort to manage one single account, create good quality content, and engage with the community in a sincere way, I'm sure they can grow their account much quicker, honourably and with good conscience. Instead now, when they retaliate by downvoting me, their downvoted value is less than 0.000. The moral of this story?
Power up and grow your account applies to abusers as well. If you feel hard done because you've been scamming and abusing on Hive, then at least you'll have more power when you want to be spiteful. It won't make you look so pathetic.
April HPUD Guessing Contest
Last month I went on a short break to Portugal and made two posts about it. I visited a museum (I haven't posted about it yet) and saw this object inside. This month's HPUD Guessing Contest is very simple
What am I?
It's very difficult to give tips this month other than this object is related to the topic in one of my two Portugal post last month. Go and check out them, but don't upvote as they're past payout already. Good luck!
In my post title this month, you may have noticed I said there's an extra prize. This is courtesy of @mipiano. Last month she won my HPUD Guessing Contest and asked that I gift her prize to someone who needs it more to grow their account. Unfortunately I forgot when I transferred the prize to the winners, and now she wants to gift her 25 HP win to someone, this is the extra prize. How can I win? I hear you ask. Easy.
Based on the same What am I? image above, give us your most creative, crazy, wild, silly, useless, whacky idea on what the object may be. @mipiano will be the judge here and the winner will win 25 HP from her.
You can enter both contests if you want. One for HPUD, what you think the object really is, and another for the extra prize.
For the HPUD Guessing Contest, the person who guess correctly or the nearest to the correct answer will get 100 Hive powered up to your account. If there are more than one winner, you will share the 100 HP. And if you win and powered up on HPUD I will double your win. However, if you are powering down or have powered down in the past month you will not be eligible for any prizes. It's pointless for me to power up to you to help you grow your account if you're powering down.
As usual, I will upvote your entry and the % will be based on your level of engagement as the whole reason I started this HPUD Guessing Contest was to drive up quality engagement on Hive. Good luck everyone!!
wow, for a few cents trying to fight the system... guess that are all bot accounts, so once set, 100s times a few cents is a bit more I suppose. orrr they plan to grow these accounts slowly. seen them before.
Uhm the thingy on the floor...
At first, I thought a hat, but it may not sit well with the metal poles at the sides.
A lampshade was another thought I had, but it doesn't have the metal stuff to hold it.
sooooo I go for:
Golfball catcher/goal. It is on the ground. Perfect for such.
The floor isn't too much golfball proof, but that aside. The ball also needs to come off the ground, which makes it even more interesting, for the one trying, as well as for the floor 😂 But that said, I go with this: golfball catcher/goal.
If the scene includes dancing on the golf course, then I see it as a perfect golfball basket :))
🎶😆
these farms on Hive, they grow wild, worse that Japnese knotweed, keep oncoming back all the time. Dunno if they should get a medal for being so persistent
😆
lets do it
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Checking those blog titles and looking at the image, I first thought it's a tea cosy or food cover, but I see something else there that makes me think it can't be, so I'm guessing it's a lady's parasol?
Really can't think of anything else☂️
It really sounds elegant, a lady's parasol 😇
Nothing like this one🙈 Quite the opposite 😂
😱
😂
maybe it's a two, a parasol for going out, and when you sit down for tea time, it keeps the tea warm 😄
Thats nuts - I cant imagine trying to manage 40 accounts. As you say, just do one account well, and it will probably be less effort.
In terms of the guesses for the thingy - I've no idea. I've looked at your two posts and they are about fish or coffee, therefore my guess is that its a spider web spun by a spider made out of wool !
Actually, I checked my blacklist for the farm, there's 56 of them on it!!
1500 HP growth is impressive - nicely done !
As for the "What am I?" I'm going to have to say that it's a gift from Granny Funnel Web Spider knitted by her for her latest set of grand-spiders; she calls it 'My First Web' 😁
ha ha! Nice one! Good luck with your entry
Good for you for cracking down on them!
That is a really good point. It's so true.
In terms of guessing I'm going to go with a tea cozy to keep a tea pot warm.
In terms of the other game I'll say... that's almost harder actually... the open mouth of a fish... 😂 kind of a dumb guess but 🤷♂️
😂
Open mouth of a regular fish or some knitted kind of it? 😂
So I guess I'm thinking of a knitted kind of fish. Like this...
Source
Tbh I don't know if I fully understand this part of the challenge 😅
There are no wrong answers, that is what matters 😁
Okay that's good then 😆
absolutely love it when people go wild with their imagination!!!
Portugal, is one of my favorite countries to visit, mainly because of the warmth of the people we met there, the thing looks like a basket of some sort, probably way off.
Nice work on the account growth, keep it up.
Apart from the good weather and food, surprisingly I found Portugal quite affordable, great country!
Hmm I don't remember seeing anything like this before but it looks like a fishing net. Some kind of trap haha.
My weird guess for @mipiano is that it's the web that Portugal's most dangerous spider weaves to hunt snakes!
both spiders and snakes are so scarey, but if there's a spider that can hunt snakes, we should definitely have more of them!!!!
Most dangerous spider weaves to hunt snakes? 😱
This sounds dangerous, I hope Ph doesn't see this as he doesn't really like spiders. Nor snakes 😂
I don't like them either but that's my wild guest 😂
Congrats on your growth, really impressive! As for the contest, my answer is a trap for crabs. If you hadn't written about the fish market in previous posts, I'd have said that this item is a backpack basket for farm chores. My grandfather had a similar one, but it was not made of fabric, but of wooden willow branches.
wow a backpack basket made from wooden willow branches must have been quite uncomfortable to carry😣 especially when filled with things inside
Yes, it's true. Far from being like today's comfortable backpacks. But it served its purpose, and in our home it was mostly used to carry firewood from the woodshed to the house. And as you can guess, firewood is not light 🤣 But the work was rewarded with the joy of Grandpa and Grandma
The object is of course a crocheted one.. but hard to guess what exactly it is...
If you put it upright, might look like a cover. I saw a hole in the middle, tough.. .
yes, this is a rather tough one this month, but it's fun to get everyone get their thinking caps on!
Terrible this about farmers. I am very sorry that there are such selfish and unscrupulous people. 🙁
Ok. Me gusta esto de inventar.
But, wait. 😂 Si yo ganara, porque es muy probable que gane, donaré también mi premio. Jaja... Universo manifiéstate.
This, of course, is a work of art that you have been knitting. And it is a typical Madeira Island hat. It is of course a very particular artistic design and was commissioned in Lisbon at the Fado museum when you visited. You were immediately recognised as a great crochet artist.
You thought I don't know Spanish? I will hold you to it 😂
Now my secret identity is out!! You weren't supposed to tell anyone!
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What a slip-up!
Hahaha, it is already getting difficult for the judge 😂
Though I would not be surprised that it is actually the real truth that LUT knitted this. She is good in that activity 😇
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You had interesting posts about fish and coffee, but it wasn't worth it, I have no idea 🙂
Considering that it is a prop in a museum, I believe it has a more value than what I am thinking now 🙂
But I will write what I would use it for.
Like a lampshade... Or I would keep it on the boat as part of a sunshade to protect me from the sun while fishing... Or as a trap to catch larger fish...
I imagine you with this thing above your head while fishing, maybe in the Danube or some lake 🎣
@duskobgd & @mipiano, sorry for listening in to your conversation (not something a lady with a parasol would do) but you gave me a good chuckle visualizing your suggestions about this knitted/crochet 'thingamajig' @livinguktaiwan is getting our brain juices (or rather, curiosity) going😅 What is this thing?
The lady with the parasol can join the conversation of course, but the citizens of the Hive universe will still have to wait for a few days for the real answer from LUT ;D
Thank you for the welcome. LUT certainly has the whole
townPUD team abuzz with thisunidentified flyingobject!Just go ahead, in an interesting conversation, it's never crowded 😀
I can't wait for the answer too, I dreamed about this mysterious object 😅
hahaha
The power of Hive, its users and mysterious objects that appear in guessing contests 😂
Thank you @duskobgd! Oh my word, as long as it's not giving you sleepless nights 😅
I would scare all the fish to put that knitted miracle on my head as a hat. I would probably look like a scarecrow 🤣
But then you can go to a fish market, buy a carp and pretend that you caught that fish 😂
I just have to make sure I buy carp and not sea bass or mackerel...
You just have to avoid the seafood section and go to the river fish part :)
From the Danube, besides carp, I usually eat perch or pike. Did you have a chance to try Danube perch?
I think I tried, but my favourites are carp and catfish
Kings of the Danube 🙂
Based on the description of the image, it appears that the object is a piece of art or decoration made of woven material, possibly a type of rope or thread, originating from some ethnic group in ancient Portugal that came from the native Galician Hispanic and Romanised Lusitanian inhabitants. I have been to Portugal a couple of times, but on strictly work-related matters. I'll have to take a holiday to see the tourist sites.
I know what you mean. Work travel may sound glamorous, but often you don't get to see much other than airport, office and hotel
40 accounts to manage at single time taking some cents rarely rather than holding one account to earn big. This proves that persons doing this aren't normal..
Okie, coming towards my most interesting thing... The guessing thing🕊️🕊️
I was going to say it is a fish trap but then I thought fish traps aren't crocheted this tight. So then thinking about it is related to your titles of the post it might be some kind of hand carry for carrying fish or other food items
And for the second guess is it an open cave leading to the sweet world of Portugal 🤔
And yes, I have been winning consecutively for two times so let's see if I can complete my hat trick or not (consecutive three).
Regards
With a lot of cream cakes 🤤
Yummy 🤤
I'm sure that cave would be a very popular one, the Portugese pastries are absolutely delicious
Woohoo
Okay, I hope it doesn't sound too crazy.😆 I was going to go for a lamp shade because it will make a pretty beautiful lamp shade but the edginess of the sides doesn't really agree to that so I'm going for a...takes a deep breath, a basket used to put in fish or other harvested crustaceans from the river. Or to catch them perhaps?
Crazy is good, that's what keeps us all sane sometimes!! Either answers are interesting, we shall find out soon
that looks like crochet bag, maybe a hat but I more on to a bag but the sling is not shown there.
I am sorry those Aceh dudes bug you this way, I have had some disputes with them in the past but I do not know if those are the same guys or the same circle as them. I will try to dig in more, but can't promise you any. Even as an Indonesian, its extremely hard to get into their circle as some of them tend to promote isolation from people of other regions or ethnicities.
I hope they get some real job in real life, so at least they spend time on doing things that worthy and valuable, not like this bugging trolling people for their useless fun
It sad that there's so many of them, and especially when they're from your own country and it give the goods users a bad reputation as well. I think they've stopped posting now, or maybe they will come back with more new accounts, we shall see
yes, I really hope they stop for real, getting a real job to pay for their family living. I have lived there for 2 years working on a couple of projects, so more or less know how screwed up there... for decades they lived in military suppressions then a decade living "freely" from many international aid and grant due to a massive Tsunami disaster. We can not expect anything from people or generation who grew up in that kind of background.
Good morning, P!
How are you?
I hope you're well and healthy.
Regarding your trip to Portugal, I hope you enjoyed your time here, I'll have to keep up to date with your posts. It's now much easier for me to keep up to date with my favourite users, as the lists in the Feed are now available again!
Congratulations on continually increasing your HP. 1500 in a month is a considerable amount.
As @pardinus said, I feel I'm at an advantage because I'm Portuguese and because of my compadre's profession (as I've already mentioned in various posts I've made about him and his father).
The object in question seems to be a fishing net, or a trap used for catching either crustaceans (prawns) or eels... But I'm not sure what species it's for, only that it's an object used in traditional fishing.
If they use all the effort in one point, they would grow a stronger community, putting their effort together to came up with a better result then stealing a few cents per day... reduced vision is a consequence of poor distance vision. As the old saying goes: "Teach them to fish, not steal the fish..."
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in your "What Am I" contest. This previous month, for the first time in months, I passed the Power Up 1 Hive in one day... Off course that I've powered up 10 Hive in April 1st, but even so I'll lack the March Badge for powering up every day of the month...
Great work on powering up everyday, they all add up in the long run.
And thanks for checking up on my travels, I still have a few to post on my Porto trip, especially the train ride along the Douro River, that was an amazing day out
Never done that Douro River ride... Maybe I'll do it in a future time, who knows!
Damn :p I love the shaming of Abusers :p
they deserve it
100%!
I am a fan haha :D
Since I'm portuguese, I'll refrain from joining this one, think I would have an unfair advantage. ;)
My point as well; especially now, with so many good curation projects on the blockchain nowadays!
or you can always join in the extra contest hosted by @mipiano 😉
Will check it, and just found a new hiveian to follow; thanks for the suggestion! :)
half a bra?
and i missed HPUD this month damn!
name and Shame? lets gang up on these peoiple
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yeah well????? LOL
I know, your answer is very funny 🤣
Btw, do you think it would be comfortable, with those metal rods/wires?
I don't know, I can't try it - I think it is not my size 😂
Madonna? 😄
They're all dealt with now, with a bit of help from the other anti-abuser gang. Like the little kids in my family says when they've eaten all the sweets "all gone!"
See I was right!! lol
Crazy things, some people don't get it… ever.
My guess this month a lobster / crab trap
Happy HPUD all 🐝😁
I know, honestly and integrity isn't that hard to grasp. Or is it?
No it isn’t… it shouldn't.
Have a lovely day 👋🏻😊
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I guess it is a 👑 crown like hat. Have an awesome day.
That sounds very regal! Good luck with your entry
Thank you 😀, that is really hard to guess.
Maybe it was a hat.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't...
Sometimes a crazy guess turns to a right answer, who knows, haha. Anyway, thanks for creating this kind of contest maam.
Fish trap!
Good luck with that guess
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Woosh 40 accounts? That is something else. So much effort that could have been used to do honest work.
As for the what am I? My serious guess is that it's some sort of fish trap, then for my unserious guess, i'd say its a condom 😂
!pimp
You must be killin' it out here!
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You earned 1.000 PIMP for the strong hand.
They're getting a workout and slapped 1/1 possible people today.
Read about some PIMP Shit or Look for the PIMP District
I just saw balance in my wallet.
Thank you so much @livinguktaiwan ❤️
I couldn't find it in the comments, did you end up posting what it was?
I guess that's a string bag
Good luck!