First things first, I have read none of the 4 comments already posted, (I normally do so as not to repeat stuff).
PIFC is one of the few, if not the only contest that rewards people for sharing information about new users. We all remember how hard it is to make a splash when we first joined steemit.
PIFC, has created a dedicated group of people that go out scour through the new feed, the introduceyourself feeds, and other methods to find people with quality blogs that may be being overlooked. This has brought to, (at least to mine), attention of quality in the making or potential. Many of those selected and profiled by a "contestant", end of participating in the process, so there is always a good selection of people to look through for when some is looking for new content.
The manner in which the "finds" are presented, aid people like myself, looking for content. There is a small bio or report of what the "contestant" found. More of a curator than a "contestant".
In closing it helps the "contestant", it helps "quality content producers", and it helps content hunters. a very good trifecta.
When explaining the contest to the potential guest judges I've been calling the contestants curators on a regular basis as that is what they are. Some truly start off as a contestant, but if they stick around for a couple weeks they become true curators of content once they really "get it" and buy into the whole concept.
Thank you for your thoughts!
They really are after getting their feet wet a few times, then they start to look at and for the better quality content to feature. A lot of the picks do deserve some small curies or large curies in some cases. The contestants/curators should get a curie fee for any content that does get curied.
Only wish we had an in for curie that would reward our curators. That would be amazing as there have been more then a few featured posts that were picked up by curie after they were featured.
Lol, I didn't read your comment, but I wrote something quite similar!
Yes, on something like this post, it requires not reading comments. A lot of the same or similar comments are likely to be posted, but that just goes to show how well the contest is looked at as a "resource".