That's a great job Luzcypher, I hope Openmic Grows more and more then all the artists can win, win-win, no looser, you know your work in steemit is really great, even if I don't like to do a race for music or producing or writing a song, because then that song can't be from a heart or it's just for winning, I mean then point and goal of writing a song will change but Openmic had many good things for me and also for any other artists who were tired of other sites and no income, well even if it's cents or 2 dollar, it's better than nothing, some artists has no side works, so this can help them much ... some artists don't have good equipment so this will help them. this new rule also made me happy!!! thanks :) <3
I hope this Openmic continue to be a great place for any artists who is in a bad situation to start and grow and I hope these payments in steemit and also this contest grow more and more to give every artist enough to let them continue in the way of music and singing and producing and writing. ( I know that you are doing all of these with your kind hearts, and this is not your duty to pay us or ... ) so I am really glad and happy for the opportunities which you and all the sponsors and support teams of Openmic gave us.
I also saw that you post another contest which gave a guitar, and it's really great, but again I say I don't like racing when it's music and well also if I join that contest . it's one winner then it can't be me :))))) .
this part is not about your post but something to talk about it with you my good friend :) :
all I know about music and to be an artists in these years( but not only these years even from the past there was many great artists but nobody heard them but everyone heard Beethoven or Mozart because they were rich enough to keep doing their music works), is to pay for yourself, it means we pay for everything but we don't pay for ourselves, we have to know that if we don't give a value to ourselves and our works then nobody will give a value to our work and to us. I have seen this brother :) I have felt it and it's also true, just look at the youtube ... you will see, those who paid the advertisement will be the winner, will be at the top list ...
think If I produce a Hollywood movie with all FXs and great musics and ... , then think that I paid much for doing all of that but when it's about releasing it , I just post it for example on youtube, without paying anything for advertisement, well then I will see that only around 1 to 100 people saw my movie or my movie trailer.
these are the rules of the system, we can't change it and I know that you know them better than me.
I hope we can grow more and more with steemit. I hope this place can continue more years and never go down, and we can count on it till 10 , 20 , or more years .... . even while right now I am disappointed of working on USA sites or investing, but I am just continuing, after a trade market from USA took our money ( thousands of people's money from Iranian and disabling our accounts and banning Iran IP), I understood that there is no way to trust these, you know it's USA Government rules which says : No American Company should let Iranian join and use and make money with them. ( I only hope people can win and Governments will lose sooner and all can live free together )
so I hope Steemit will stand against that Government rule. I know it's not easy but I hope.
and at the end I say : all you do is great, and you do all of these with your kind heart so we don't have to say anything :))))) I really mean it :) cause I know you are a human like us and you are the great one who care about Musicians! + all the sponsors of the competition that you started it.
Totally agree with you sir @davidfar even here insteemit I got a bunch of cents hehehe but when I joined open mic, I started loving this music community hosted by sir @luzcypher and the rest of the open mic team they embrace ordinary people ordinary musician with all of their heart.