Honestly I can't believe it's been 1 full year of the Pay It Forward Curation Contest. Yet here we are for week 52!
Can't have a major milestone like this happen without a party so it's time to mix things up a little. We are going to have different rules and WAY more prizes. Oh and later this week we are going to have a Judges Appreciation post in which I will be announcing my personal thank you gift to the judges. Keep an eye out for this post as you will be able to say thank you for all of their hard work.
The rule changes for This Week Only are that I'd love for each of you to go back and feature 2 of your favorite bloggers from the past. Find a great post of theirs that seems undervalued and feature it. There are no rules for reputation score this week and the sole focus should be on finding great content from bloggers that you previously featured. New people, just feature any 2 bloggers you want who create great content and are undervalued.
As for the prizes, well this will be a EVERYONE WINS contest this week! A few of our sponsors have stepped up and offered more SBI shares then normal and this will allow us to give 1 SBI to each Entry and 1 to Each Featured Blogger. That said make sure to pick good ones as they are winning an SBI share automatically .
Now we can't have the best entries getting the same prize as everyone else, so this week the winners are each going to get 3 SBI Shares and their featured bloggers will each get 2 SBI shares.
Below is all of the stock information for this contest, but the changes outlined above are the actual rules and prizes for this week.
The Pay It Forward Curation Contest is all about increasing exposure for undervalued high quality posts and increase the level of engagement on steemit. You can take part by entering the contest or just helping visit the entries and their featured posts. Everyone chooses their level of involvement and we appreciate the efforts of everyone who helps promote quality content on Steemit.
| Make sure to check back to this post often and scroll to the end to see a list of this week's curation entries! This list is updated on a regular basis to help make it easy for you to visit the entries and help support the great content that has been curated. |
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How to Enter the Pay It Forward Curation Contest?
To enter the Curation Contest you will find 2 high quality blog posts written by reputation level 55 or lower steemians and then write a curation style blog post like this entry by @viking-ventures from week 16 which won a Judges Choice Award. The idea is to highlight both posts and why you thought they were high quality.
| To be clear the Level 55 max is only for the bloggers who are featured, anyone may submit a curation entry. |
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Rules:
- Curation Style Post that highlights your 2 featured blog posts.
- Link to the high quality blog posts in your curation post. Keep in mind that many will follow this link and upvote so pick a post that isn't close to payout!
- Include a link to this contest in your entry post
- The 2 bloggers you curate need to be rank 55 or below
- You need to comment on this post with a link to your post, this is how we track everything!
👉👉Clarification for Quality Required for valid Entry👈👈
We are looking for Quality Original Content and that post spells out what that means. If you are new please read it.
No less then 200 words of original written content. So a single photo is fine as long as there is 200 words with it. 200 words is about 12 lines of content.
** Art posts that show at least 3 steps of progression will not need to have 200 words of content, but still attempt to explain their art. Please use some common sense here.
Posts from Parley and dmania are not acceptable.
Contest Date Range
This contest run from Now until Saturday 4/06/19 at 11:59pm CST (USA, Chicago).
The winners will be announced on Wednesday 04/10/19.
Prizes: Steem Basic Income
This week 14 winners are going to get a sponsorship for #steembasicincome!
There will be 2 SBI Sponsorship's purchased on a random basis. Anyone who wins a Judges Choice SBI is excluded
from the Random SBI drawing.
There will be 4 Judges Choice Awards based the quality of the blog posts you feature in the eyes of our Judges, @trincowski, @tryskele , @lynncoyle1, & @viking-ventures. Each Judges Choice will get 1 SBI shares for winning from the Judge that picked them.
All 8 of the featured bloggers from the Judges Choice Winners posts will also get an SBI Share. These shares are purchase by the sponsors listed later in the post.
@steembasicincome is a great program designed to provide a lifetime upvote on posts to members who have SBI Shares.
Prizes: Steem-Bounty
@steem-bounty of 2 Steem has been created. We will only upvote entries for the Author's 95% of the Bounty. No other comments will be upvoted as the goal is to reward those who enter the contest.
@steem-bounty is also a witness account and is run by @knircky. To set @steem-bounty as witness you can go to: https://steemit.com/~witnesses and enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote.
Sponsors, Please Support Them!!
Please visit the most recent post from each of the sponsors and thank them for their support of the Curation Contest.
| Sponsors | Type of Sponsorship |
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| @bengy | 1 SBI Share |
| @andrewharland | 4 SBI Shares |
| @roleerob | 1 SBI Shares |
| @stever82 | 2 SBI Shares |
| @thedarkhorse & @wolfhart | 2 SBI shares for Random Winners |
Current Entries - Please Visit!!!
This is the real purpose of this contest, visit these posts and help upvote the bloggers featured. This list will be updated as new entries are added. Please check back during the week!!
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Great idea! Here's my entry for this week:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@trincowski/1-year-anniversary-my-entry-to-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-52
Entry #6. Glad you like the idea. Felt like the right thing to do looking back at those who brought us to this point.
I went through my list of past candidates and, taking aside 2 or 3 exceptions, all the people I've featured were in two categories:
It seems like the program is working well. 😉
Congratulation on 1st anniversary! I am happy to be one part of this contest.
My entry for this week
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@aggamun/my-entry-post-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-52-aggamun
Entry #2
Back for week 52 like I said I would be -- here is my entry for week 52!
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@deeanndmathews/my-entry-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-52
Entry #8
hello everyone happy anniversary I wish you the best of successes God bless you all
My entrance
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@soulkanzart/1-year-anniversary-week-52-pay-it-forward-curation-contest
Entry #9
¡Hola @pifc! ¡Feliz Aniversario! Cariños y besos para todos.
Mi entrada:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@celinavisaez/aniversario-1-ano-semana-52-concurso-de-curacion-pay-it-forward
Entry #12
That was fun going and checking up on my previous folks I curated to see what they were up to!
I chose 2 and here is my entry -
https://steemit.com/pifc/@porters/pifc-1-year-anniversary-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-52-my-entry
Entry #13
Glad you enjoyed it. I've been enjoying seeing who each person selects...fun week.
My entry to week 52: https://steemit.com/payitforward/@zorank/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-52
Entry #11
Congrats on your first year, i'm glad ive been part of seeing this community grow and im sure year 2 will be even better. Will keep the flag of @pifc going
Here's my submission for this week to show my continued commitment - https://steemit.com/payitforward/@chekohler/week-52-pay-it-forward-curation-entry
Entry #1
Very impressed @thedarkhorse / @pifc, to see you reach this milestone. I am not easily impressed ... 😉 You continue to "fight the good fight" and faithfully and steadily keep this going. Week in, week out ... You have my respect for your great efforts!
As a result, a number of others have also faithfully fallen in behind your lead and also are remarkable in how consistently they "show up" week after week.
This morning, on this 1st anniversary, I would like to tell all of you that many of the best associations I have made "in here" are linked to the PIFC community. Without which, it is very unlikely I would still be actively involved in any way, with the Steem blockchain.
All the best to everyone, for another great year! 😊 👍
Thank you very much for that. Glad that PIFC has helped you find some other like minded people.
Certainly @thedarkhorse, my pleasure. I appreciate all you do for the community and our Steem blockchain.
I hope to be around to experience you celebrating many happy returns on your efforts! 👍
Congratulations on a year well done!! I'm looking forward to saying that another year from now too :)
Hi there, @lynncoyle1!
Well, since you don't have any active post, I'll just upvote this comment of yours.
PS: I've come to your post through @pifc's initiative.
Ditto what @trincowski says @lynncoyle!! 😉
Thank you for all you do "in here." I hope it returns to you many times over!
Congratulations on reaching the first full year! It's been a pleasure and an honour to be growing alongside you!
This is my entry for this week, but for reasons you will read within... I'm disqualifying my entry for the prizes!
https://steemit.com/community/@bengy/payitforward-1yearanniversaryakaweek52entry-1t2sjahgal
Entry #3
How’s my timing this time @thedarkhorse? 😉 Thanks for the opportunity you guys!
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@dandays/we-gowan-party-like-it-s-yo-berfday-payitforward-1-year-anniversary
Entry #4
Happy 1st birthday to the entire Pay It Forward Community. It's been a pleasure and an honor to be part of this movement. It definitely makes Steemit a more people-friendly place :D Jokes aside, this community really changed my perception of Steemit. Thank you for the amazing work, guys!
Here is my entry.
Entry #10
Nice and early this week... But then, you did make it easy. :-)
https://steemit.com/pifc/@viking-ventures/my-entry-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-52-anniversary-celebration
Entry #7
Can’t very well turn away from @thedarkhorse’s approach to this week’s contest. Here is my entry for our 🎂 one year anniversary 🎂 contest!
Entry #5
Congrats with the 1 year steemiversary @pfic !
It's truly one of the greatest initiatives on this platform helping many that start out here. I hope a 2nd year is being added to it. Keep it up!
My plans are for another year. Looking forward to seeing where we will be in another year. Thanks for your continued support
https://steemit.com/steemit/@tryskele/pifc-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-52-how-far-we-have-come
Entry #16
So long since I've joined! But didn't wanted to miss this special celebration, so here is my entry for this week:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@pardinus/my-entry-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-52-anniversary-edition
Entry #15
It is going to be fun to give away lots of shares this week. Here is my entry https://steempeak.com/payitforward/@stever82/my-entry-into-the-1-year-anniversary-of-pay-it-forward-curation-contest
Entry #14
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Congrats on the 1 year mark. Seems so long ago when Jerry (@energyaddict22) introduced me to you and this project. Just curious, but do you hear from him on Discord since he went to run that online history magazine?
Haven't talked with him for a few months. Need to reach out to him and say hi.
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Your UA account score is currently 4.294 which ranks you at #2708 across all Steem accounts.
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In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 359 contributions, your post is ranked at #107.
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I have not been keeping track of the weeks.
WOW one year. started out with a one week at a time LOL
One lady who went shopping by herself and got help putting her bags in the trunk.
you ever see that lady ?
one small ripple
Sadly she passed away. It really is amazing how often couple pass really close to each other when they were together for so long.
On to happier news...it's really crazy we have been working on this for a year now. Hope that the next year allows us to touch the lives of a few more steemians.
I do believe it will.
stay the course
@pifc, Congratulations for 1 Year Anniversary and keep up this Contest Economy and hope that this Content Economy will going to invite more effective engagement. Stay blessed.
Thank you! Increasing engagement is always at the top of my mind. Hope to find new ways to increase engagement during our next year on Steem.
Welcome and good wishes from my side.
Congrats on the birthday - curious to see what will be chosen :)
There are some great featured blogs to check out already. Hope you get a chance to visit them.
Congratulations on the milestone!
Thank you! You have an entry in you for this week?
Good intentions...
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Like mine for getting to bed early tonight as I have to be up in 4 hours...lol. But really did need to write the new post I put up for PIFC and then reply to a few comments. Now it's time to catch a few hours of sleep before a long day.
Sleep tight. 7am here and a long day in the kitchen... Good day tomorrow
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Wow! It's been 52 weeks! Congratulations! You've made many changes in folks lives over that time!
Thanks also for the generous way you are celebrating! I'll take a peak over the bloggers I've featured and see how they are doing - get them some SBI!
Thank you for your efforts/entries. Honestly this milestone is all about the curators IMO. PIFC is just an opportunity for great people to shine...the contest is nothing without great people showing up and making their entries.
Happy aniversary. Wish you more success
Thank you very much.