- In the spirit of Curie's commitment to building community and fostering engagement on the Steem blockchain, we are pleased to present a weekly comment contest administered from the @curie blog.
- For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/jQtWbfj
- Follow @curie's votes to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a SteemAuto user, @curie is an available curation trail to follow.
Curie Comment Contest
Earn Steem by leaving good comments on posts upvoted by @curie!*
*Only posts which receive a @curie vote through Curie curator/reviewer operations are eligible for this comment contest. PLEASE NOTE the @curie account casts many upvotes which are not part of Curie curator/reviewer operations. See below for two methods to tell what posts have been upvoted by Curie through curator/reviewer operations:- Visit becquerel.io to see a record of the most recent posts upvoted through Curie curator/reviewer operations and leave thoughtful comments on them for your chance to win!
- @curie also leaves an automated comment on all posts upvoted through Curie curator/reviewer operations, so alternatively you can visit the @curie blog comments to find eligible upvoted posts to comment on.
How do I sign up?
There is no need to sign up. Simply commenting on posting upvoted through Curie curator/reviewer operations makes you eligible for the Curie Comment Contest.The contest week will run from Sunday 15:01 UTC through Sunday 15:00 UTC
Curie will use an algorithm that evaluates comments on both quantitative and qualitative metrics. This means that in addition to the number of Curie-upvoted posts that you comment on, the quality of your comments will also factor into the score. In addition we will look at other metrics designed to measure engagement with the authors that Curie upvotes.
THE EXACT ALGORITHM AND METRICS USED TO GENERATE THIS SCORE WILL NOT BE REVEALED TO HINDER ATTEMPTS TO GAME THE CONTEST
That being said, one of the most important metrics is simply the number of Curie-upvoted posts commented on during the contest week. For reference, here are the top 20 commenters by # of posts commented on for this contest week (you can tell by comparing this list to the actual placements below that there are other factors that go in to the contest scoring).
Continued interaction with Curie upvoted authors beyond the initial post commented on is another factor. So remember to follow the authors and comment on their new posting as well to score the maximum number of points!
Win up to 15 Steem!
Curie Comment Contest winners will be announced in a weekly post. In addition to the prize payout structure outlined below, the weekly champion will receive an honorary role in the Curie Discord server of "Comment Champion". Bragging rights!
1st place (Curie Comment Champion): 15 Steem
2nd place: 12 Steem
3rd place: 10 Steem
4th & 5th places: 8 Steem each
6th & 7th places: 5 Steem each
8th & 9th places: 3 Steem each
Honorable Mentions (10th through 20th): 2 Steem each
Total weekly prize pool: 91 Steem/ 20 payout positions
Spam Comments will NOT be rewarded
The comment history of all winners will be manually reviewed for spam before any prizes are paid out. Short generic comments that could have been left without reading the post will not qualify for the Curie Comment Contest. Examples of spam comments include (but are not limited to): "Nice post"; "I like your post"; "Nice picture"; "Good song"; "Great story", etc.
EGREGIOUS SPAM COMMENTERS WILL BE REPORTED TO STEEMCLEANERS
A few words of advice on leaving good, thoughtful comments
- tell the post author what in specific you liked about the post, why you liked it and/or how it made you feel. If your comment is so generic that it could have been left without reading the post, it will not qualify for the Curie Comment Contest.Weekly Winners!
For comments left during the contest week of October 28th - November 4th, 2018. All prize payouts will be sent out shortly from the @curie account.
Comment Champion - 15 Steem prize! @delishtreats is still on a roll, extending her record streak of first place finishes to four!
2nd place: 12 Steem - @arrozymangophoto congrats on shooting up into the top 3!
3rd place: 10 Steem - @matkodurko nice to see another new face in the top 3!
4th & 5th places: 8 Steem each
@jocqua & @macoolette6th & 7th places: 5 Steem each
@janton & @ronel8th & 9th places: 3 Steem each
@oliviackl & @veryspiderHonorable Mentions (10th through 20th): 2 Steem each
@marblely, @leilanyarevalo, @naideth, @steemflow, @pluridimensional, @adamada, @peachyladiva, @martinmcfly, @iraidamatheus, @scrawly, @glenalbrethsenLet the wild rumpus begin!
So what are you waiting for? Start reading those Curie-upvoted posts and leaving thoughtful comments already!
Whoah! Commentedn on 116 posts, @delishtreats! That's huge... very good job!
And @matkodurko, it looks like you really came very well prepared. Nice one!
Hi-five @jocqua for the tie Steem.
Congratulations too to everyone else on the list! 👍😊
Thank you very much to @curie as usual! 🤹♀️😊
Hi-five right back at ya!
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So ... I try go and make some Comments then ... And I hope there cool day :) here morning very dark and rainy :)
This may be the thing that makes me switch to commenting on others and help building the community rather than writing my own posts. Why I haven't heard about this before.
You still need to post to be successful here. I made this mistake in my first months and did only a couple of posts a week while commenting on about 50 posts a day. One I changed to 1 post a day and 20 comments - things got much better for me.
Yeah, that's what I'll try doing.
Good luck. Based on my experience, get the post out first. If I start commenting the post may not go out at all :)
Thank you Curie for sponsoring this contest. And @carlgnash for the SP delegations which helped me a lot keeping up. :D
@curie is great. Thanks to community.
woow what a surprise, I was very anxious to know about this week's positions. thank you very much.
Greetings to all contestants.
Thanks @curie for the special mention. No doubt @delishtreats have hold the forte with strong hand...she is all around..
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Nice post good @curie
What happiness I feel, this was my first participation in the contest and I was among the winners, I will be fighting to be some day to be on the podium of the first places.
I am new to steemit, so I'm still learning, but I will be sure to check it out, thank you
Nicee, thx! :)
Thank you @curie! Yay! Congratulations everyone!
Thanks so much for continuing to run this contest! It's been a great way of integrating myself into the steemit community. Loving it. Thanks for the 4th & 5th place spot!
Thanks @curie for this wonderful contest! I enjoyed to comment and read good posts. I could not comment more because of my low SP, but I'm happy to be among the first 20. Congratulations to everyone!
I'm back from my travels and committed to getting on this list again for next week! I came to see how active I need to be and - wow - the comments for the mention have gone up!
Please do another post about how this is helping engagement on your posts. I would really like to see the improvement this has caused for you, and I think it will show skyrocketing numbers :)
I'm glad I missed Halloween lol. The creepiness factor should subside a bit now.
great work @curie especially the @basejumper one! Nice to see something different!!
Thanks! I see you are a jumper too, Rock on!
Wow congratulations to everyone!
alright, i'll try it out