Recently I announced that I would have an on-going "contest" where people would have a chance of earning LEO for making comments on my content. It's my way of "giving something back" to the community while I am trying to increase the overall engagement. I give away 5 LEO in total, twice per week for starters, but I've already been thinking about doing something different shortly. It will continue like it has until next Wednesday 2021-04-14 though. I might do some changes after that, but I haven't decided yet.
You can read about it here:
Let's Talk & Win! Continues - Boosting Engagement
Full List Of Participants:
| Username | Number | |
|---|---|---|
| taskmaster4450le | #1 | |
| natalia-irish | #2 | |
| alexvan | #3 | |
| evernoticethat | #4 | |
| acesontop | #5 | |
| josediccus | #6 | |
| dwixer | #7 | |
| bozz | #8 | |
| jfang003 | #9 | |
| numpypython | #10 | |
| tfranzini | #11 | |
| cryptokraze | #12 | |
| frankbacon | #13 | |
| lucylin | #14 | |
| nonameslefttouse | #15 | |
| cowboyphylosophy | #16 | |
| codingdefined | #17 | |
| jaxsonmurph | #18 | |
| bil.prag | #19 | |
| cryptictruth | #20 | |
| hetty-rowan | #21 | |
| theanalystjohn | #22 | |
| rob23 | #23 | |
| austinsears | #24 | |
| chuuuckie | #25 | |
| ysas | #26 | |
| sindetalles | #27 | |
| lebah | #28 | |
| notaboutme | #29 | |
| bitcoinflood | #30 |
I ignored a plagiarist from participating in this contest. So there should have been 31 people in total.
Instead of just giving each user a number, I did something entirely different to make this as fair as possible, while still being 100% random. I actually made it even more random by doing this!
The participants above have each been given a number. That number is based on the order of the comments in my articles. So, the first comment on the first post since I announced "round 2" of this is taskmaster4450le. The second one is natalia-irish and so on.
With a total of 30 people, I decided to give each participant a random number. I used random generator and entered 1 - 30 and pressed generate like shown below:
This makes things even more random, as #1 suddenly becomes #3. I did this a lot of times. (You can't imagine how often you roll the same number more than once when you generate random numbers...)
Anyhow, I did this just to get each user a truly random number. After I had been generating new numbers for each participant, the list looked like this instead:
| Username | Number | |
|---|---|---|
| taskmaster4450le | #3 | |
| natalia-irish | #7 | |
| alexvan | #27 | |
| evernoticethat | #11 | |
| acesontop | #1 | |
| josediccus | #14 | |
| dwixer | #9 | |
| bozz | #22 | |
| jfang003 | #16 | |
| numpypython | #2 | |
| tfranzini | #4 | |
| cryptokraze | #12 | |
| frankbacon | #8 | |
| lucylin | #26 | |
| nonameslefttouse | #5 | |
| cowboyphylosophy | #28 | |
| codingdefined | #13 | |
| jaxsonmurph | #20 | |
| bil.prag | #19 | |
| cryptictruth | #30 | |
| hetty-rowan | #23 | |
| theanalystjohn | #17 | |
| rob23 | #6 | |
| austinsears | #25 | |
| chuuuckie | #24 | |
| ysas | #29 | |
| sindetalles | #15 | |
| lebah | #21 | |
| notaboutme | #10 | |
| bitcoinflood | #18 |
RANDOM WINNERS
When I had done all of this, I started to roll the 5 random numbers.
The winning numbers this time are:
#8 - #11 - #4 - #18 - #27
In other words:
frankbacon, evernoticethat, tfranzini, bitcoinflood and alexvan.
I do this in an attempt of bringing more attention towards real & active engagement which reflects a healthy and thriving platform. The long haul goal is to take some of the awesome amount of engagement from the daily posts from @leomarkettalk and push some of that elsewhere instead. I have plans for how to grow this thing into something even better with time, so starting with my own posts are just the beginning.
This is definitely a lottery. The cost is a single comment to get a ticket. The tickets are powerful and meaningful and it will boost the overall engagement with time. The outcome is a thriving and active community that will attract more content creators.
- Engagement is key.
The third set of prizes will be sent on Wednesday
2021-04-14 and comments from this post is eligible.
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An awesome initiative. It will definitely increase the community engagement as more comments and replies start flowing in.
Also the randomization process seems pretty nice.
Good luck.
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I think it makes things extremely fair, but it was a bit time consuming so I might have to come up with something else instead. It depends on the amount of participants each time. It's fine to do it with 10 or 20 participants, but 30+ would probably become a bit too time consuming. We'll see how it goes. :)
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I think the entire randomization process seems complicated but if works for you, its fine.
I do think it would be nice to see more comments outside the @leomarkettalk since it current takes around 20% of the comments daily on LeoFinance.
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It wasn't really "complicated" in that sense, but it was time consuming. I just wanted things to be as random as possible before picking winners.. I might have to come up with something else though. It depends on the number of participants.
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Wow, thank you for this gift, I just saw this right now. Engagement is important and helps the platform grow! Thanks again!
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You're very welcome and congratulations! :)
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Remember when all the buzz was about Smart Media Tokens?
Nobody seems to talk about them any more. Maybe native Layer 1 SMT’s just aren’t as important any more since Hive-Engine (and other Layer 2 developers like LeoFinance) can create tokens.
Anyone know if there’s any ongoing plans for Layer 1 Smart Media Tokens as originally envisaged?
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That's a really good question.. I have no idea but I certainly remember the days when that was literally the only thing people talked about..
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Wonderful initiative along with others to increase the intercourse within the community. I spent some time on @leomarkettalk this past weekend and it was very interesting.
I noticed one comment regarding the Smart Media Tokens (SMTs). Now that is a blast from the past. Do we really need them? Asking for a friend.
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Thank you. I think it's one step in the right direction as I'm going for overall engagement so we'll see how it goes. This is likely to be on-going for a long period of time, until I publicly stop it.
Regarding the SMT's, I have no answer.. I'm clueless.
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Whoaa I won :)
Thanks, man! I'm happy about the prize but even happier about your constant efforts to make this community grow even more! Count on me to help with whatever I can
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Congratulations and thank you very much, I appreciate it. I have some ideas for the near future as well, but most recently I have decided to focus more on comments rather than articles when I curate.
I think that goes well in hand with the things I am already doing to boost the overall engagement.
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Read how this all have started with Toruk
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I love to see Toruk stopping by my posts. Thank you very much for the support. :)
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Really great kind of initiative of yours! It encourages noobs like me ;)
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That's awesome and exactly my goals with this. Thanks! :)
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Congratulations to those with the lucky numbers. Honestly, it was a fair roll and sunlight shined on people closer to the air. Lolz. Great work.
Thanks. I tried to make it as fair as possible by generating random numbers for each participants as well as generate random numbers for the winners. A bit time consuming though, but I'm satisfied with the outcome.
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Yeah, the outcome was fair
sounds like an interesting way to get us involved - you got me attention! now i just need to login more often. hope you have great success with this and it spawns others efforts
I hope it encourages people to engage more, and outside of my posts as well with time. It's a work in progress. :)
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I was surprised on the list .
Reading and commenting make me a better reader in life a better listener
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It's an awesome source of knowledge and wisdom.
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