๐Ÿ”” CCpost Contest No. 1 - Announcement

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Invitation To All Steemit Members To Join, Contribute, Compete and Win the 1st CCpost Contest

CCpost Contest AnnouncementImage 01

Although I believe this contest might be most helpful to new Steemit members to learn how to post correctly according to the Steemit community rules, it's open for everyone who is willing to participate.

I also believe it would be worthy and rewarding for all the participants who will follow the rules which are deeply thought through and I hope pretty well designed. In other words, as long as you follow the contest rules, there are no losers but only bigger and smaller winners.

All of you, who have already come across one of my previous posts, would very likely guess what about this contest is going to be.

The contest is created around one of captcha phrases that I hold in my captcha phrases collection.

Unlimited Wishes
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For this first CCpost contest the title and the topic around which you are going to create your content is "Unlimited Wishes."

I'm sure your itching fingers are already ready to start, but let's see the contest rules first.

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CCpost Contest Rules

The contest has three (3) rounds!

๐Ÿ”ถ First Round Conditions - Entering The Contest

1) The title of your post must contain the contest topic phrase

  • You can use only the topic phrase for the title of your post or
  • You can wrap your title around the topic phrase (but without changing words order in the phrase)

2) Your post must be originally written

  • NO copy/paste plagiarism or any other copyright infringement will be tolerated

3) Your post must be at least 200 words long

  • Quotes you might use in your article must be properly marked or formatted and credited

4) You may use as many photos, graphics, images, illustrations, videos and similar to make your post more appealing, according to your taste and affinity.

  • Any of it wouldn't reduce the number of minimum words needed to enter the contest.
  • Each photo, image, illustration or similar must be properly credited (attribute the author, license, and link to source)
  • Even if they are under CC0 license or Public Domain, each should be attributed and linked accordingly.
  • Credit attribution might be listed under the related content (photo, graphics, image...) or at the end of the post (see the sources listed under this post as an example).
  • If you are the author of the photos, graphics, images, etc. in your post, you should indicate the source as own photo, graphics, image or else.

5) The first tag of your post must be #ccpost

6) Your post must be published before midnight (24:00h) or at latest at 11:59 PM (UTC), Tuesday, September 19, 2017.

7) You have to Upvote this post with at least 50% of your Voting Power

8) You have to Announce Your Entrance To The Contest by commenting on this post with the link to your post

Unlimited Wishes
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๐Ÿ”ถ Second Round Conditions - Entering The Final Round

During the day on Wednesday, Septemeber 20, 2017 I will publish the post with all the participants who fulfilled above rules and are eligible to enter the 2nd round of the contest. The eligible participants will be listed in the order they were entering the contest.

9) To enter the Final Round, those participants have to pick three (3) best posts of their choice (except their own) among the other contestants' posts and Upvote them.

  • Upvoted power for each post may be any Voting Power amount in between 1% and 100%.

10) The contestants have to comment on that (Wednesday) post by listing the Usernames of contestants for whose posts they have voted, indicating to whom they give 3, 2 or 1 point(s).

Example:
@1stContestantUsername - 3 points
@2ndContestantUsername - 2 points
@3rdContestantUsername - 1 point

11) All the Voting and Commenting must be done before midnight (24:00h) or at latest at 11:59 PM (UTC), Friday, September 22, 2017.

๐Ÿ”ถ Third Final Round

During the day on Saturday, Septemeber 23, 2017 I will publish the post with all the participants who fulfilled whole 1st and 2nd Round rules and are entering the 3rd Final round of the contest.
The eligible participants will be listed by the number of votes they collected from other contestants, from highest to lowest number.

The contest will remain open for voting (for the whole Steemit community) until midnight. All votes received before midnight (24:00h) or at latest at 11:59 PM (UTC), Saturday 23, 2017 will be counted as a total amount of votes received on the post and credited with points according to the following table of values.

Votes on post

No. of Points

0 - 5 votes
0
6 - 15 votes
1
16 - 25 votes
2
26 - 35 votes
3
36 - 45 votes
4
46 - 55 votes
5
56 - 65 votes
6
66 - 75 votes
7
76 - 85 votes
8
86 - 95 votes
9
96 - 105 votes
10
and so on...
...

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The Judges & Their Points

This "1st CCpost Contest" has only two judges.
It would be @awakentolife for whose generous help I'm thankful in advance and me ( @ana-maria).

๐Ÿ”ท Judges' Picks

  • From the list of participants who entered the 3rd final round, published in the post from Saturday, Septemeber 23, 2017, each judge would pick 10 (ten) best posts of their choice and credit each from 1 point as the lowest rated up to 10 points for the highest rated.
  • Judges' votes would be summed to create The Total of Judges Points.

๐Ÿ”ท Calculation Of The Collected Points

A = The total number of points received from other contestants
B = The number of points calculated from above table (from number of post's votes)
C = The total of judges points
D = A + B + C = Final Total of The Points

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๐Ÿ…๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ… Announcing Winners & Awards ๐Ÿ…๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…

Winners' CupsImage 03

During the day on Sunday, Septemeber 24, 2017 I will publish the post with all the participants who entered The Third Final Round of the contest, listed by the total number of accumulated points from highest to lowest and calculated as above explained under the "Calculation Of The Collected Points."

The total (100%) amount of SBD earned with this post together with all eventual sponsor donations for this "1st CCpost Contest," will create the Final Reward Pool (FRP) which will be divided as follows.

1st Place - 40% of FRP

2nd Place - 20% of FRP

3rd Place - 10% of FRP

Remaining 30% of FRP will be divided equally among all the participants who entered The Third Final Round, starting from the one on the 4th place till the last listed one.

The exact SBD amounts won on the contest will be published in the post on Monday, Septemeber 25, 2017.

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Note For Sponsors

Anyone who is willing to support this contest with the donation (no matter by which amount) is more than welcome!



Please send your donations in SBD, before midnight (24:00h) or at latest at 11:59 PM (UTC), Sunday, Septemeber 24, 2017 with the following memo: Donation for the "1st CCpost Contest."

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Join "1st CCpost Contest" & Get Rewarded

Unlimited Wishes
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Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2017


Images sources:
Image 01 - Own derivative work with the photos, images and illustrations from Pixabay. Credits to geralt for start-cloud-arrow image, to Clker-Free-Vector-Images for checkered-flag-start illustration, to toyztechworld for idea-yellow-bulb illustration, to fapro1 for light-bulb-sky image, and to OpenClipart-Vectors for male-race-runner illustration, all used in creation of this image under the CC0 Creative Commons license.
Image 02 - Own derivative work with the images and illustrations from Pixabay. Credits to geralt for mobile-phone-send-received image, to Clker-Free-Vector-Images for lamp-genie-aladdin illustration, and to OpenClipart-Vectors for four-leaf-clover illustration, all used in creation of this image under the CC0 Creative Commons license.
Image 03 - from Pixabay. Credits to qimono for cup-champion-award-trophy image, used under the CC0 Creative Commons license.
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This looks real interesting! Passing it on :)

Thank you very much, @enginewitty, and an extra "thank you" for the resteem! ๐Ÿ™‚

I am participating in this contest and here is my post link hope you like it.
https://steemit.com/ccpost/@arunava/unlimited-wishes-2017918t164840933z

Thank you for the effort and participation! ๐Ÿ™‚
But to make your post eligible according to the contest rules, could you please, check the source link you provided for the image you've used in the article, as the current one doesn't lead anywhere (almost), neither we can see who is the author, where the image is published nor under which license you are using it.

I used eSteem App to post so when I posted the link it was immediately converted to a picture.

I will edit it in Dextop wait a bit.

Its done Please check it.

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Thank you for the effort and participation! ๐Ÿ™‚
But to make your post eligible according to the contest rules, I'm kindly asking you to consider changing/replacing the photo you have used in your article or provide the license and proof that you hold the rights to use it.
If you can do that inside following 10 hours at latest, and before I publish the post with all the participants who fulfilled The First Round conditions and are entering the Second Round of the contest, you would be listed on it as an eligible contestant.

The reason is the following.
Maybe it slipped from your attention but in the First Round conditions under item 2) we emphasized that: NO copy/paste plagiarism or any other copyright infringement will be tolerated. That applies as for the textual part of the article same to the photos and images used in it.

The thing is that the photo you've used in your article is in fact, a ShutterStock photo created by the photographer Fer Gregory who is selling his work on shutterstock.com photo stock website.

The link you provided as the image source leads to the website/blog of Spectrum Music Canada who very likely bought the image from shutterstock.com to be able to use it on their site. But even if it's not so, you still wouldn't be allowed to use it, as Spectrum Music Canada reserve the rights for the whole content published on their site what you can clearly see if you scroll down to the end of the site where you would find the following:

ยฉ Copyright 2015 Spectrum Music Canada

Therefore, and no matter where we find a certain photo, image, graphics, illustration, etc. we can't just copy/paste it and use it in our own work, and especially not for commercial purposes usage (what publishing on Steemit is) as we earn money with that publishing.

In other words, just linking to the source where we find a certain content may relieve us of being accused of plagiarism but it still may NOT give us the rights to use it neither would deprive the copyrights of the original author and copyright holder what in this concrete case the photographer Fer Gregory is.

As Steemit Community, in general, doesn't support plagiarism nor copyright infringement I would like to suggest you, and whenever you are not using your own photos, to consider finding some adequate ones on the sites like Pexels.com and Pixabay.com are, where most of the photos, images, etc. (except few rare exceptions) are not only free to use, but as well free to use for commercial purposes.

Following those rules wouldn't just help you to enter this contest, but more importantly, it would help your future work on the Steemit platform to be valued and recognized, gaining more valuable followers and voters, and avoid to be banned, downvoted or with significantly decreased reputation, all of which has a huge impact on your earnings as well (positive or negative, depends on the path you are going to chose.)

hi @ana-maria i have changed the previous image with a creation of my own... requesting you to find it out here-
https://steemit.com/ccpost/@rituparnaghosh/unlimited-wishes

thank you for the wonderful explanation @ana-maria. I will create something of my own and will replace it within 10 hours.

Great news @rituparnaghosh! ๐Ÿ™‚ Looking forward to it!

Now that is a well organised contest and post. Fully upvoted and resteemed. I might compete here too later.

Namaste!

Thank you very much for your support and especially for the resteem. There is only one thing I have to disagree with you strongly.
My dear @musicgeek it's not optional for you to participate (so, you might compete), it's mandatory for you so you must compete! (Sorry, that I forgot to mention that in the rules.) ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Š

Lol ok ok โš ๏ธ I will I promise

good post and good work thanks

Sounds interesting, I'll be back to read through more closely, and I'm gonna try to participate...

Thank you very much, dear @frawstakwa! You should participate for sure. Besides, you are almost half eligible just by casting your 100% vote to this post. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Š

I'm waiting for your official entrance comment with the link to your post! ๐Ÿ˜‰

And last, but not least - thank you for the resteem! ๐Ÿ™‚

I just came back now to read the details and see that I've missed the deadline... damn... waited until I finally had some time on my hands, ha ha... I'll at least search #ccpost and see what others have published... I'll be on the lookout for future contests for sure... after all, better luck next time, am I right? hope all is well sis, take care...

I'm so sorry, dear @frawstakwa! I have to admit, at some point, I was thinking to remind you but then I decided not to, as I didn't want to be pushy.
But don't worry, there would be another one, maybe not immediately next week, but soon. And I'll keep in mind that I have to push you a bit, though. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ™‚

Oh, don't worry about it... I need to just make more of an effort to be active here, that's all... still taking some getting used to, you know?

You know, it's kinda like standing on the beach or you going to jump into the water or not. Just standing on the shore to get used to the water scheme, kinda doesn't work really. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ™‚

Dear Ana. Shall surely participate in this contest and shall post my link within the next 12 hours. Regards Nainaz.

Great! Take care and be on time! ๐Ÿ˜Š

Very clever. Will try to participate @ana-maria. if my post makes it to the deadline. :)

Thank you very much, @beng05! - I'm sure you'll make it on time. ๐Ÿ˜‰ You still have over one whole day to write it and join! ๐Ÿ™‚

hmm! I can dig it :) I'll have to get in on the next one. GO Alliance GO!

Thank you for stopping by!
I think I'll make another one sometime next month. If you are interested I can inform you when it starts. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Š

Please do! That would be lovely <3

Dear @avesa, as it seems I'm not going to run the 2nd #ccpost contest soon again, so I wanted to tell you about the one I think you might be interested in. It's created by @mariannewest and @improv.

In fact, it's not a contest but more like a very useful, helpful and fun challenge. I personally like it a lot although I don't participate daily but whenever I can.

However, the challenge is run by @mariannewest and on her Introductory post you may find what is all about.

Today's or the last and current active prompt is Sleep, more about it you would find on her yesterday's Prompt Announcing Post.

What and how the other authors "swim" in that challenge you mays see simply by checking the #freewrite tag.

So, that would be it from me for now, but not wanting to keep you waiting any longer, and as well to let you know that I didn't forget you, it crossed my mind that I could tell you and you might like the above-described challenge although it's not mine and I'm just another participant as you would be if you decide to give it a try. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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