Wow! Thank everyone for all your support and entries for the first weeks contest. Some great content was featured by everyone who entered the contest and it was great seeing so many people take their time to write a curation post featuring other steemians.
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Winners will be announced tomorrow and @steem-bounty will be awarding the Bounty rewards after post payout.
This contest is open to everyone including anyone who entered in week 1. The contests main focus is to help smaller members gain some extra visibility and hopefully a few extra votes. Really hope that people will look at the #payitforward tag and look at some of the entries and show some support to those that have been featured.
Changes for Week 2
If you were part of Week 1's contest please note there are a couple minor changes.
- First the 2 groups will include all of those who are members for under 90 days and then second group is over 90 days. This change will help even out the 2 groups.
- Second we will be that 1 SBI sponsorship will be awarded per 8 entries in a given pool. So if there are 1-8 entries in a reward pool there will be 1 winner, but if there are 9 entries there will be 2 winners in that pool.
Curation Contest Overview
Contest will run for 7 days and ends at post payout.
There will be at least 2 Winners each week and it's based on how long you have been on Steemit. Below in "How to Win" will explain this further.
This contest is truly here to help gain exposure for posts that deserve more of the reward pool then they are currently getting. Curate bloggers who clearly put effort into their posts and deserve to get more attention and votes.
| Your Entry will be a single Curation Post that needs to highlight 3 other bloggers and link to at least 1 of their posts. This is your opportunity to share why we should visit these bloggers and what drew your attention to them. |
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Each Blogger Featured must be the same or smaller rank then you. That is I am currently level 55 so I could feature anyone that is level 55 or below.
Of the 3 bloggers you feature at least 1 of them must be someone you DO NOT currently follow. You need to go out and find at least 1 new blogger with great content. Feel free to add them to your follow list once you find one you like, just mention that you started following them after reading their post.
You must Upvoted and Comment on all 3 of the posts you feature in your curation entry. Highly suggest sharing the link to your post once you have featured them. You found their work worth sharing with all of us, let them know they are doing a great job!
You will be writing 1 post in which you talk about the 3 bloggers and one of their most recent posts. Below is what is required to be in the post.
- Write a review of the blogger and 1 of their most recent posts, link to the post
- Explain why this blogger was chosen and a summary of their post
- Make sure you have upvoted and commented on the post you link to for each of these bloggers
- Your post should also link to this post showing you are part of this weeks contest.
Requirements for a valid entry
Only 2 things are required for a valid entry:
- Use the tag #payitforward on your entry post
- Comment below with a link to your entry you are entered.
Optional, but we could use your Help!
| What would be great is if you could help us spread the word and help keep this contest growing. How can you help? Simple give an upvote to this post, resteem this post, and let others know about the contest. Consider tagging some other members in your entry to help draw attention to the contest. |
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How to Win
There are at least 2 winners each week. 1 person that has been here for less then 90 days and 1 person who has been here for 91+ days will be chosen each week. I will look based on how many days you have been active starting Today April 10th CST US to decide which category you fall in.
All those who comment below are given an entry number. From there all Valid Entries will be added split into their over/under 90 days groups and then a random number generator will be used to select the winner.
Judges
@lynncoyle1, @energyaddict22, and @thedarkhorse. If you have questions feel free to ask below or reach out to me on discord and my # is 6765.
The Prizes
| Each week at least 2 winners are going to get a sponsorship for @steembasicincome which means a lifetime of votes on future posts from @steembasicincome. I will also autovote 1x per day for 7 days at 50% power. |
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*** Fair Warning: If your content is low quality I will let you know my issues with it, you can either choose to fix this or I will pull the autovote part of the prize. Sorry not voting on spam or stolen content
Bonus - Steem-Bounty
| @steem-bounty runs a great service that allows bloggers to create a SBD reward that all commenters can share in. Everyone that has an upvote from me will get part of the #steem-bounty (3 SBD) . You can also upvote each other and help people with great entries get more of the bounty. |
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** Fair warning spammers I have no problem flagging you if you are trying to boost your comment to get more of the bounty.
Next week I will post the winners of this week's contest on Wednesday April 18th CST US.
Next Week's Contest will start with a post on Tuesday April 17th CST US around the same time as this post.
| If anything isn't clear please ask for clarification. This will help me make the rules a little more clear for next week. Any suggestions are appreciated. |
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Current Entries - Please Visit!!!
@wolfhart -- Entry #1
@bananamemos -- Entry #2
@freedomshift --- Entry 3
@iexplore -- Entry #4
Over 90 Days:
@viking-ventures -- Entry #1
@bengy -- Entry #2
@davemccoy -- Entry #3
@bashadow -- Entry #4
@pundito -- Entry #5
@tryskele -- Entry #6
@wanderlass -- Entry #7
@vipnata -- Entry #8
@fitinfun -- Entry #9
Here is my entry into this week's contest. These are some really neat individuals let's see how we can help :)
Well..I guess we have to put the link in LOL
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@tryskele/tryskele-s-entry-for-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2#@thedarkhorse/re-tryskele-tryskele-s-entry-for-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2-20180415t004615330z
Over 90 Days - Entry #6
I liked you entry , well done
Nice job @tryskele :)
Ty guys :)
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.212 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.065 SBD from the community!
It looks as though the contest was success :) I'm glad you're running it again, and I'm honoured to be judging this week's entries as well! My VP is low (haha surprise!), so I will come back tomorrow to upvote all the entries again. I'm also sending you another 1 sbd to put towards this week's prize pool. Cheers:)
Thank you for your support and help!
You are most welcome!
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.221 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.074 SBD from the community!
This is a great idea for engaginh steemians. best of luck @thedarkhorse
What a fun time this was, looking for Steemians to highlight. I found 3 really interesting people!
Here they are: https://steemit.com/payitforward/@bananamemos/week-2-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-3-blogs-you-really-should-check-out
Entry #2 - Under 90 days group.
Great entry and love that you went out and found 3 new bloggers to feature who you hadn't been following before. Thanks for joining the fun and hope you join us again next week!
Thanks for this opportunity to find new friends and great bloggers. :-)
Thank you for entering @bananamemos :)
I've got my toes hanging over the starting line, waiting for Week 3 to be announced. :-)
hahaha that's awesome!! Good for you ;)
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.179 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.032 SBD from the community!
oh wow! Thank you very much!
TaDa! This was hard work but well worth the effort :)
I will enter next week if you keep going. I love this idea.
Pay It Forward Contest Entry by fitinfun
Over 90 Days - Entry #9
This contest will run for as long as there is enough interest to support the idea. This takes me a good amount of work to run, but if people are willing to help pay it forward I will be here rewarding those people.
I'm sure the work is intense! I will do a post each week now. i have the template and lots of ideas.
You can look here to see where I just spammed up the place :)
https://steemit.com/@fitinfun/comments
lol...that is some serious commenting.
I'm dedicated to my causes!
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.174 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.118 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.057 SBD from the community!
Here is my entry into the contest... Great contest @thedarkhorse! I have chosen @lynncoyle1 @amariespeaks @revelationart
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@davemccoy/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-my-entry-for-week-2
My entry is on behalf of Play 4 a Newbie Challenge. All proceeds will go to a newbie Prize Pool and hopefully you will get other players to join in your game too!
Great entry @davemccoy! I appreciate you including me and my pup in there ;) haha
always happy to feature the amazing Queen of Gondor! :)
This! from the Prince of Steemit!! :)
lol... funny funny :) I hope you are having a great night @lynncoyle1 ;)
Entry #3 - Over 90 Days
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.184 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.037 SBD from the community!
Some strange recommendations from me this time. Hope they are okay!
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@bengy/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2-entry
Hope it all makes sense too, pretty tired with the baby not sleeping...
Entry #2 - Over 90 Days Group
Your entries are all good. Only thing I would suggest is maybe try not to pick a post so close to payout (3rd person) as some people might not pay attention and click over to it and give an upvote in a couple days without realizing it's to late for the blogger to get those rewards.
Thanks for pointing that out! I completely forgot about that. I have fixed up the links and my post.
Thanks for entering @bengy! I see the one about a certain judge too haha I also love how you saw the flagging with one, but chose to move forward and look at his current work. That's very nice of you :)
Hope that baby gets better and starts to sleep soon! My two are adults now, but I can still remember the days of no sleep and realized how sleep deprivation is a perfect form of torture haha
Oh when I am older, I plan to exact maximum retribution! I'm just going to scream incoherently and then poop in my pants!
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.183 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.036 SBD from the community!
My entry for week #2
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@wolfhart/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2-win-sbi-and-steem-bounty
Entry #1 - Under 90 Days
Love the entry @wolfhart, especially the first one where you didn't flag him but instead supported a new steemian! Love it :)
He only been on Steemit a week ago I took that into account , I'm glad he is doing better and improving also I did go to his blog and look :) . A little help here and there goes a long way .
I'm sure he will avoid me after the things I said to him , I do come off , a little stern for the most part until you get to know me :)
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.183 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.036 SBD from the community!
I'm not that good at this type of post, but I tried.
here it is.
My entry is on behalf of Play 4 a Newbie Challenge. All
proceeds will go to a newbie Prize Pool and hopefully you will get
other players to join in your game too!
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Entry #4 - Over 90 Days group
I left you a couple notes on your post in the comments. But you did fine and next week just make the one change and you'll be perfect. You made some good choices for bloggers.
I did do a little edit and added added a link to @wdoutjah Egypt post. @disastermonkey only has his introduceyourself post. He got the account on 4 dec 2017, but did not do anything significant with it until 18 days ago when he started doing some following and voting.
That is a great person to try and give a little attention to. They stuck around probably just lurking and now are getting into the idea of blogging. Hopefully a little attention to their post will give them the needed push to keep going.
Oh @bashadow, on the contrary! Your post was great and the fact that you "tried" is good enough for me! I love that you chose one from the "Introduce yourself" feed as well. I need to go back to that one with my @newbieresteemday and @asapers hat on for a little visit :) Thanks for finding him!
It was hard, the introduceyourself is getting full of garbage, whales dolphins, and fat minnows. Don't even bother with the trending and hot tabs, kind of depressing seeing all the bigger people begging for attention.
I've heard that from so many people now! I checked out the trending page once and never went back. And perhaps some people rode the wave and now that it's crashing, have no idea where to go? :)
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.183 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.036 SBD from the community!
Here is my entry for this week. Another three new follows for me!
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@viking-ventures/my-entry-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2
Entry #1 - Over 90 days Group
Love the entry @viking-ventures! The artwork really is beautiful ;) And I love that all three are new to you; way to go!
Thanks! It's a lot of fun to do this contest, I hope @thedarkhorse is able to keep it up!
The hardest part is finding bloggers with same/lower reputation for this contest! (I'm glad I'm well into the 40s!!!) It would make it slightly easier if we could use anyone in our decade or lower (I'm thinking also about those who are just starting out and might have enormous trouble finding people with the current rules.)
Going to have to think about this for a bit. Not really sure about someone in the upper 40's like yourself, but maybe to help the newest members get involved.
Well, when I commented, I was still at rep 44/45 - then I got curied. :) So, it suddenly jumped a bit.
I definitely think the lower levels need a little extra room to maneuver though.
Congratulations on the curie @viking-ventures! That is so exciting :)
Thank you! It was, indeed, very exciting!
That idea is something worth considering I think @thedarkhorse?
This was one of the reasons I wanted to set up a group chat.
That's what I figured haha
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.183 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.147 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.036 SBD from the community!
This is my entry:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@freedomshift/my-entry-to-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2-payitforward
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.146 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.110 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.036 SBD from the community!
So glad you joined in the fun @freedomshift :)
It's my honor ...
Under 90 Days - Entry #3
... It's my pleasure ...
Hi there again ... here is my entry for this week.
Hopefully, it is a helpful one.
payitforward week 2
Entry #5 for the Over 90 days group. Thanks for your entry!
Awesome entry @pundito :)
Thank you @lynncoyle1 :)
You are most welcome @pundito! Thank you for entering ;)
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.124 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.096 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.029 SBD from the community!
I saw this post at the tail end last week and could not get to it in time. I'm resteeming and promising myself I WILL do it this week. Awesome idea and I'm tweeting as well to see if I can get some steeming tweeps to participate :)
Really hope you can get involved! Have had some great feedback from people who have submitted entries and with the Bounty on the post it makes sure everyone get rewarded something for their efforts.
I'm on it now and you will see it very soon!!!!
Hope you join in @fitinfun :)
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.117 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.088 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.029 SBD from the community!
Thank you very much for this contest. We need more activities like this to encourage that sense of community. Here's my entry:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@wanderlass/pay-it-forward-contest-week-2-jocrazy-titajuls-sir-skillful1
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.110 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.110 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.000 SBD from the community!
Thank you very much for this bounty! Much appreciated :)
Over 90 Days - Entry #7
Hello @thedarknouse, this is my recording. My participation in Steemit is more than 90 days.
https://busy.org/@vipnata/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2-win-sbi-and-steem-bounty
Over 90 Days - Entry #8
For those that don't use busy:
https://steemit.com/@vipnata/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2-win-sbi-and-steem-bounty
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.110 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.110 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.000 SBD from the community!
thank you very much @steem-bounty
My Entry!!
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@iexplore/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-2-my-entry-exploring-great-steemians
Under 90 days - Entry #4
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.110 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.110 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.000 SBD from the community!
Great thing to do @thedarkhorse. To bad my friendship post did only have Steemians with a higher rank than me :(
Also in the next friendship post.
Keep it going, you have my upvote, to pay the prices. Not that it is much. Need to save of lot of steem for the coming weeks, already promised to give away 42 SBI shares. Will cost me a rib! But let's make together things better.
You know what they say: a better world starts with yourself!
If you find some time over the next week it would be great to get an entry from you. 42 SBI shares is a hefty investment to make. Very nice of you to help others at that level!!
Will try to put 3 Steemians in the post with a lower rep! The contest says that one 1 of the 3 had to a new account, which you don’t follow yet! How is this checked?
42! It all adds up. 9 more weeks that I do sponsor the lucky 25 of Ashers league. A promise I made to simplymike to support his securtity contest. And I did announce a world cup contest today, where I will paid out 31 more shares! Hoping that this last contest will be a blast, I did even setup a discord channel.
Not to mention that I need for more steem for the qurator registration!
Phew, in over my head but it is worth it!
Just will have to keep on writing decent articles!
For the first week I am going with an honor system, but I can pull the data of when you followed someone as it's all on the blockchain if it looks like this is being abused. Really prefer to trust everyone to actually go out and find a new person to support.
Unlike many contests this one takes a little work so I think most people that are putting out a post are making a sincere effort to help other people which is the real goal of this.
Not that I was planning to cheat, I was just wondering.
It is good to spread the word about worthy authors, it is also a nice catch that we only need to have people with a lower rep!
Like told before a great contest, if I don’t get to much tangled up writing own post and my contest I will give it a shot!
If I don’t you may always remind me 😁
Didn't think you were planning on it. Nice thing is the data is always there with the blockchain.
Personally I think the key to the whole thing is that everyone needs to focus on those with a lower rep. This helps those that need it most.
If you forget, and I don't forget, I'll remind you later. If you don't have time to create a post, but can look at those featured by others that is a huge help too. I've been trying to upvote everyone featured, but since I'm doing them all it means I have to keep the voting weight fairly low to be able to keep up. So if other add to this we can make some smaller members have a decent reward from their featured posts.
Had some discussion with people about lower reps! We quickly forget that we all did start there.
People get influenced by rep,just ignoring posts with a rep below 30! Which is pity.
Let me help you!
Give me 3 posts which deserve an upvote and I will give all 3 of them a 50% upvote!
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.069 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.037 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.032 SBD from the community!
Ah, I've got some folks in mind, now crossing my fingers I can get an entry written up tonight!
If for some reason you don't week 3 will start tomorrow. Glad you will be joining in the fun.
Then I might just hold it for tomorrow instead of rushing :) I'm glad you're keeping this going!
I should have the post for week 3 up by 11am CST at the latest.
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.044 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.044 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.000 SBD from the community!
Such an awesome contest! Giving light to great content that may not have been seen otherwise! Awesome job! :D
I thought you were on holidays?! Get out of here :)
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.042 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.037 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.005 SBD from the community!
I love this!!! Great work & whilst I’m srill new & learning, it’s effort, value & humility like this that make confident this is the place for me & sharing a personal #payitforward mission!
Kindest DJ
Congratulations! Your submission earned you 0.037 SBD from this bounty. You have received 0.037 SBD from the creator of the bounty and 0.000 SBD from the community!
Sounds like a great contest. Might have a crack at this next week.
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thank you for such a wonderful contest. I'd like to be a part of it.
All you need to do is put together your entry. Everyone is welcome to join!
thank you, I will definitely write a post this week.
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I will be playing this for the Play 4 a Newbie Challenge.. I just wanted you to know that I am reserving a spot ;)
Just make a new comment when you enter. Makes it easier for us to keep track of. Entries are getting a much bigger upvote so it will hopefully keep them up near the top and people can follow the links. Really hoping that people will go and upvote some of the people that have been featured in the entries.
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A bounty of 3.000 SBD has been set on this post by @thedarkhorse! You can read how they work here.
Awesome concept!
You should make a post and join in @whattheduck ! :)
nice your payitforward post
Not sure if anyone has taken the time to tell you that running around commenting "nice post" on a ton of people's blogs really isn't going to help you grow. Tell the person what you liked about their blog...but first actually read the blog. There is no way you read this and the other 26 blogs (27 total) that you commented nice post on in a matter of 1 hour or less.
If you did this right you would have taken that hour and read 4-5 posts and left real comments. Those 4-5 real comments give you a chance to get some upvotes and way more important you are engaging with other bloggers who then might check out your posts. After you do this for a while and prove your here to add value you start gaining followers which makes gaining some higher paying posts much easier.
This is just Spam the way you are doing this now. If you had taken a minute and actually attempted to engage with me I am pretty good about giving out upvotes to everyone that leaves real comments. But I'm also more then willing to flag those that spam my posts with nonsense.
So if you are here for the long term and care about building your account please take my advice to heart and try to improve your ways. If you are just looking to make a penny here and there your spamming ways will work just fine.
Consider this both advice to help you grow your account and a warning to please not spam my posts.
You tell 'em boss:) Seriously, it's very good advice you gave, and I hope that @zaraish listens to it .
He hasn't, still running around spamming posts with "nice post". If he decides to last minute upvote this comment to steal part of the bounty I will flag him. Hope he at least takes the warning part as the advice was lost upon him.
I hope he does too! It's all you can do...educate...then it's his choice whether or not to listen!