My Featured Steemians for Pay It Forward Week 26
This is a curation post, and my entry to week 26 of the Pay It Forward Contest, or @PIFC for short. The contest is an initiative by @thedarkhorse, where we have to feature two promising steemians who write original content and have a reputation of 55 or below but aren't getting the attention they deserve. Below are my featured steemians:
Grace
If you like origami, you'll probably like this blog. Grace (@gmatthe2) is from Australia and is into origami. Grace's blog is all things origami, from tutorials to contests.
Image source: from the post linked below:
Edit (2018/10/04): a more recent post that fits the PIFC quality requirements came out after I published my entry (the judges can upvote this one if the other one expires):
And here is another tutorial example. It's an older post with a Dtube video tutorial.
The above tutorial post can no longer be upvoted and is a bit shorter than 200 words (the minimum requirement for Pay It Forward Contest entries), but the PIFC entry is the first post anyway, so I guess it should be fine. ;)
Drahries
@drahries is a mother and teacher from the Philippines. She's going through hard times right now and having trouble to pay her Internet bills. According to a previous post, she lacks Internet access at home at the moment and needs to depend on free wi-fi spots to even post on STEEM. Despite this, her writing is quite positive, which you can see from her various ulogs, and also her latest post (at the moment), which is motivating and should be a good read to new users:
She has begun an upfundme campaign to try to gather STEEM to help pay her Internet bills and get her access back:
Edit (2018/10/06): the upfundme post above expired. Here's a more recent one if anyone wants to upvote and help her out.
I hope her situation improves, and maybe she can get some help from the @PIFC contest too. :)
Additionally, Pay It Forward Week 26 also requires us to nominate someone that has between 40 and 480 SP who is committed to the STEEM community, to receive support from the Minnowbuilder program (a new upvote service to help minnows grow). And my nomination goes to...
Rent Money
@rentmoney has 221.825 SP at the moment of writing. He not only produces his own content, but also hosts nice contests/games whose prizes usually involve helping promote other small users' content. For example his battleship game, Battle-Steem, and the other games below:
- Lets Get You Noticed : Free Upvotes / Free Resteems + Get Featured !
- Daily Steem-Monster Card Giveaway !
- Ask A Stupid Question / Get A Dumb Answer Game 3
These games encourage engagement between participants, and it's easy to tell that @rentmoney is dedicated to the community.
And these were my featured steemians for this time. Thank you for reading (not only my post, but hopefully the featured users' posts too). If you find steemians that you feel deserve more attention, you may also consider entering the Pay It Forward Contest (@PIFC) if you still haven't.
Thanks for your entry. Both bloggers have been upvoted.
Read your reply about the timing of posts, but you really want to find the posts that are newer as the blogger will miss out on votes. This contest runs for 5 days and people will still be upvoting some of the entries until at least then. So sometimes you need to put a blogger on hold for a week and find a different one for the current week to make sure they get the most benefit from being featured. Hope that all makes sense.
Ah yes, the "strategy" makes sense. I'll keep it in mind. Thank you!
Nice picks! I have dropped by and supported both of them!
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Thank you @aiyumi. My blog is indeed about all things origami :) My next post, which is currently on whaleshares under @grace and will be uploaded to steemit in around 8 hours will be to show case another origami artist by the name of Joseph Hwang. The origami tutorial will be for this Flexagon/trivet.
I also second your support of @rentmoney I have entered a lot of his competitions and he always makes things fun.
Since the post I had chosen was a bit close to payout and all the judges may not have enough time to upvote it, I made an edit and added a link to the newer tutorial you mentioned, just in case...
Keep up the good work, and I hope you win something from the contest. :)
Thank you @aiyumi
I love all your picks @aiyumi. Next time choose a post that has enough time to upvote. Good luck for your selection. I upvote one post and ask @drotto to upvote for another post.
Sadly the more recent posts fell short on the word count :( . I didn't want to give up on featuring the steemian because of that, so the entry post had to be that one...
Congrats on your first @pifc post! I think you've done a splendid job.
I've supported your featured bloggers.
Love all your picks @aiyumi 😉 I support your featured bloggers, welcome to the pay it forward contest. What makes you decided to join this week?
I had meant to join last week and had even picked two steemians, but all the HF issues got in the way and I decided to postpone my entry until this week. Like I mentioned in the entry comment, it looks like the HF knocked down my chosen steemians too, and I had to look for others. I think I was lucky this week because I managed to find these two rather easily, so I went ahead and joined. If the other two previously chosen steemians have new posts that meet the requirements next week, I'll join again.
Thank you for the support, and sorry for the late reply.
Keep monitoring a good steemian from now on 😉 it would make us easier to choose. I temember that I was marking some steemian and put it in my post draft, but when I finishing it up.. I saw somebody else already picked the blogger 😂😂😂 lucky that this hf20 still have a blessing in disguise to take advantage with.
Hope you'll keep joining the contest.. you knew it is fun though.
Congratulations, you have been upvoted and resteemed as part of #newbieresteemday's top 10 posts for the day!
Congratulations with your first entry, @aiyumi! And what an entry it is!
I like your choices. Good writers, good posts. I enjoyed both the bloggers you selected.
And @rentmoney? Very good choice, if you ask me :0)
(Btw, I'm guest judging for @pifc this week)
Have been to visit both your features. So glad your decided to do an entry. Pifc really is a great way to give an extra little boost to your favorite bloggers.
Would love to see more entries from you in future.