Minnows Accelerator Project [Reward Share and Delegated SP Contest][1 August 2017 Signups]
This is the next step in a new initiative to help talented minnows accelerate their growth on Steemit.
The best minnow content creators will receive:
=> a share of special post rewards
=> increased visibility to attract new followers and upvotes
=> free upvotes and resteems
=> a dedicated chatroom open only to MAP participants
==> and the chance to win 200 SP delegated for 7 days! <==
This is the continuation of the Minnows Accelerator project (MAP) first announced in July.
So how will this work? Please read the rules carefully. They are not complicated but there are a few steps involved.
Step 1 - Are you a minnow?
I have seen a minnow defined as a user with less than 1000 SP and fewer than 500 followers, so I shall stick with this for the moment. If you have under 1000 SP because you have cashed out, then you don't count as a minnow.
Step 2 - Sign up with a comment to this post.
Very simply, if you wish to be considered then just add a comment below. I will look through each blog in the order in which comments are left based on their timestamp. I shall also repost the Signup pages at the start of every month to refresh the list.
Step 3 - Six content creators chosen for Step 4
I will select the first six good content creators to be included in a post entitled "Six of the Best".
I know there is a subjective element to this, but I do read a lot of posts and am also a published author of non-fiction. To avoid disappointment, let me highlight a very short list of the qualities I shall be looking for. This Signups post will be reposted at the start of every month, so if you have made significant strides in your blogging skills you are certainly welcome to add your name again.
= I shall be looking at your recent blog posts, not just one article.
= Your posts must be your own work. It is very easy to check for plagiarism online, even if the bots don't catch it.
= If you are mainly a writer, please check for punctuation and spelling. The editors on Steemit and chainBB will underline spelling errors but it is up to you to correct them.
= Images must be appropriate, resized to fit the text and give balance and aesthetic appeal to the article.
= If you are mainly posting artwork or videos, it really helps to add at least a paragraph about the content or the inspiration behind the work.
= And finally, I shall be scanning your comments and replies to see that you are already engaging with other established content creators. I expect all winners to use their delegated 200 SP wisely.
Step 4 - Six of the Best up for votes
Every 1 or 2 days I shall publish a "Six of the Best" article with a list of the six chosen content creators. The rest of the community can vote on their favourite minnow authors. I will ignore bot votes.
These six minnows are already winners! I will use a feature known as Reward Distribution, available within chainBB, to give each of the minnows a 10% share in the author rewards generated by each post. These will automatically appear in each user's account on payout, and will be paid in 100% SP. I will also upvote and resteem at least one recent article from each participant. Each person will also be invited to a private chatroom dedicated to MAP participants to help in future growth.
At the end of the 7-day reward period, the person with the highest number of human votes will win 200 SP delegated for 7 days! If the voting is very close, I will consider having more than one winner.
Step 5 - Repeat Steps 3 and 4
I will continue to go through this Signup list of comments and select six authors every day or two. There is no need to leave multiple comments. I will create a new Signup page at the start of every month, or every two weeks,
The aim of the Minnows Accelerator Project is to help talented minnows accelerate their progress on Steemit.
Just a note that Six of the Best MAP4 has just started!
Take a look to see how the contest works!
Thank you very much for the opportunity and the comment alerting me of this!
I'm generally on Steemit in the evenings after work, so I'll definitely be viewing others work and engaging with them then! I've been trying to comment more myself.
Please read me if you have the time. Thanks a lot!
Just a note that Six of the Best MAP5 started a few hours ago and is going strong!
Another quick note that MAP6 is also running!
Just a quick message that MAP8 is now complete and will be launched soon.
Those of you to whom I have not yet commented, don't panic, you shall be considered for MAP9, which looks like will also open in a day or two.
Let me also take this opportunity to say that I, @accelerator, am the new account for all MAP activities, but it is all still being managed by @rycharde.
pleased to make your acquaintance @accelerator
Quick Note: even though this post is beyond its 7-day reward period, you can still signup here - comments still work and you can upvote any comment younger than 7 days.
Also, new MAP publication: Tales from the MAP Room
read me!
But it really looks to me a lot of hard work for you. I don't create too many posts and it would be difficult to dig them from several re-steems I do and I've got over 600 comments. So how will you go about!
To make things easier lemme try to find out some links to my posts for you myself:
Hi, thanks for signing up. As you say, you don't have so many posts yet, and I quote, " But I really haven’t started up yet. I’m probably still waiting for the right time."
The MAP contests are happening every one or two days. So you are welcome to come back and sign up again in September, with more posts (and fewer resteems). Thanks.
Thanks for your offer! But I seriously can't abide with more posts & fewer resteems policy. Thanks anyway!
just a thought.... actually it is very good logic for you to not resteem as much. Supporting others does gain support for you, however, how can people support you if they can't find your content?
So you are arguing against resteeming feature? Think for yourself a little and you will get the answer. I do get readers despite of my resteems. And I resteem for my readers only!
I don't understand why my entry to this contest wasn't considered by @rycharde. If you are not ought to resteem, this condition should have been mentioned beforehand. But I fulfilled all the conditions stated here and yet I didn't qualify to enter this contest! @rycharde rightly quoted me that I haven't started up yet but then what is "accelerator" meant to do?
BTW, I was just pointing that I feel it's impossible for a human to read through all the recent posts, comments & replies of all participants here ...depending on how you define the word "recent".
better than a resteem, writing your own posts featuring some of your favorite articles by followers is a great idea.
It's just one of the factors that anyone will consider when looking at a new blog. Unless your following is so big, and they love you so much, it's helpful to be able to see easier articles that you write. if you care to, see my blog as an example of how I resteem a bit here or there(only posts that I think are significant to anyone). I also make sure to write a post after having resteemed 2 blogs, before resteeming again.
this contest is quite accessible, and anyone who doesn't get this round, is offered kindhearted advice, and an opportunity to apply again.
I hope your offense does not stop you from considering @rycharde's reasoning behind his request, this is not his preference alone, but pretty standard in the community.
us minnows tend to have a small audience, resteeming isn't super effective for us, so it's good to be particular.
Whales, everyone wants to know what they do and think, so they can resteem posts they vote on and win all day without writing too often.
I hope this helps, and that you don't feel like @rycharde is being mean.
Anyways, I was vegan for 8 months this past year, and I'm still mostly vegetable diet, and interested in the cause. I will follow you, and look through your blog (just saw that you are anti-dairy campaigner). I hope to see more of the vegan stuff in your blog feed.
also, @rycharde told me to be careful about my resteems! I think I almost didn't make the cut :-0
Well, thanks for all your advice and suggestions but I beg to differ. And if @rycharde is so much particular about resteems (as you say you almost didn't make the cut inspite of your fewer resteems), then I don't care much about this accelerator program. I need to consider what's important for me. I'll tell you that if my resteemings make it difficult to locate my own posts then it's not my problem but it's a problem with Steemit platform which needs to be taken care of. And until then you should make use of some other platform which can filter your posts from your resteems. I can't recall any tool here since I don't need it but for the recent posts (as is the requirement here) you can always jump to the "Latest posts" section at steemnow.com and set the feed to "My Posts" or even better to "Blog".
And regarding my taking an offense or my feelings of @rycharde being mean to me LOL!, I'd rather say that it wasn't an offense at all but an statement that I expect the rules to be stated more clearly. In case, resteming is not preferred by the organizers of this contest (and which is very much acceptable) then it should be clearly stated, so that people like me shouldn't waste their & organizer's time in making a futile attempt. I didn't know that this rule is "pretty standard" in the community. But thanks for telling me that so I'd be ignoring such contests in the future.
I dunno what you mean by the above. I do want to know all that for each one of whom I follow. Whales aren't any special to me in that regard.
And dunno what you mean by effectiveness of resteems. It looks like my thoughts, philosophies & understandings are very very different than that of you or others who have this line of thinking.
And thanks for noticing that I'm an anti-dairy campaigner. I'm glad that you have made an attempt to go vegan and are still supporting the cause to some extent. Writing about veganism is one of my objectives to be here. But I wanted to share more in my native language viz. Hindi. But I don't have much audience for that so far so I'm trying to write something in English. Currently, I ain't writing much about it, my focus is to gain some more followers for a month. But you can always get in touch with me on this issue on Steem Chat. Or you can also use a chat bot I've recently developed for Telegram named Veganizer though it's still on constant improvement mode.
Thank you very much for a detailed feedback! 💓
Hello to everyone!
I have just published a new signup page = GO HERE
If you have already signed up in the comments below, please DO NOT sign up again in the new post. I go through everybody in order until the comments are exhausted.
The new signup page is mainly to further promote the new MAP account, @accelerator. I Also republish fresh Signup pages whenever a comment thread gets too long.
Thanks!
Appreciate this endeavor, and as I think you'll find from my posts, I need some motivation to keep pushing forward.
Some original content for consideration:
Steemit ROI: What's Your Time Worth?
The Elusive Conversational Flow State
The Counterintuitive Necessity of Disconnecting
Community Without Losing Humanity
Much ❤️ & Resteemed!
@tayken
thanks a lot, I appreciate it! let's have some fun (-:
Well, two-out-of-two today! You've also made it into the next MAP5. When I have Six of the Best I'll publish MAP5 and let you know in a comment. In the meantime, please have a look at the current contests to see how they work.
Thanks for signing up!