Pay It Forward Contest Entry [ Steem-Bounty Added ]
I have finally decided to enter the Pay It Forward Contest. This contest is a great initiative that helps garners interest for blogs of Steemians that have a rep score of below 50. To enter you need to nominate two Steemians and create a blog post highlighting their blogs.
The Rules :
Curation Style Post of 2 Bloggers who are posting Quality Original Content
Link to 1 recent blog post per featured blogger.
Include a link to this contest in your entry post
The 2 bloggers you curate Must Be Rank 50 or Lower!
You need to comment with a link to your post, in the official topic
While I have plenty of followers that I would love to enter into this contest I am bound by the rules to pick two. This was no easy task as all my followers are very talented. So without further ado my first pick into this contest is @steven-patrick who has taught me more about flowers in the short period I have been following his blog then I have learned throughout my lifetime.
@steven-patrick has some great original photographs posted to his blogs in which I suggest everyone go check out. But for this entry I would like to focus on his new series of post in which he is trying to get to know the ecosystem around himself and then educates others about his findings in his posts.
His latest topic Elegant Brodiaea - California native wildflower has some amazing photos and a description to go along with them. His post also contains some other photos and descriptions of what he found on his journey. Below is a sample of his work.
The second Steemian I would like to enter is @starthere who is running a very interesting cryptocurrency experiment in which I can't wait to see the conclusion of. @starthere doesn't do allot of blogging but does update his followers once a month on his experiment. Check out his latest update by clicking the following link, EXPERIMENT - Top 10 Crypto "Index Fund" 2018.
The Experiment Rules :
Buy $100 of each the Top 10 cryptocurrencies on January 1st, 2018. Run the experiment 365 days. Hold only. No selling. No trading. Report monthly.
This weeks Pay It Forward Contest allows us to mention a community / initiative that has helped us in some way. For this portion of the contest I would like to nominate @newbiegames. This is a great community / initiative that has lots of different types of games / promotions for everyone. @davemccoy introduced me to the community and I am very happy that he did. Its easily one of the best tags on Steemit so don't forget to visit it from time to time.
OMG! I didn't make the cut? ;) lol #numerouno
Only those with under 50 rep can be nominated.
Oh yeah I guess I am still above that even with all the flags. lol I think I should be at 60 right now but Steem Power is more important.
You're doing pretty well at 51.
I am only at 51 .. maby I can pay a bot to flag me and then get nominated .. LOL !
I was actually falsely flagged last week. I got the flagged removed but it wasn't removed until after payout.
I think there is a downvote bot now. I remember seeing something like a month ago where you can pay for downvotes. lol
Who flagged you?
There is a downvote bot but I wouldn't use one. I don't believe in down-voting even though there are instances in which its justified.
I won't name what one but it was an upvote bot I used. They incorrectly flagged me for plagiarism and forgetting to source an image I used and then in a twist of irony they sourced the image incorrectly themselves.
Most who flag for image sourcing have a misunderstanding of the rules of image sourcing so they shouldn't be dishing out flags but that is another topic.
If I became a huge whale maybe I would downvote some trending page spam hard to say.
Ninja? They threatened me once.
I didn't realize that steemit uploads the image when you copy and paste the URL. I think that should be changed.
No it wasn't Ninja.
Gif / memes / videos and pictures don't all have the same rules when it comes to the legal repercussions of sharing them and some of these services on Steemit that flag based on breaking those rules are doing so incorrectly.
Plus funny gifs & meme are meant to be shared. That is the purpose of their creation. No-one should be flagged for sharing a random funny gif / meme. Then we have copyright laws that give us the right to fair use of videos. Such as using a small portion of a video / freeze frame from a video.
Thanks for your entry. Enjoyed both of the featured bloggers and have upvoted both of them. Sorry for the delay on confirming your entry, life has been kind of crazy this week.
Life gets in the way sometimes.
Thanks for accepting my entries and for your upvotes / comments on the featured Steemians blog.
Thank you for the entry @rentmoney; I'm glad you decided to join in :) That photo of @steven-patrick's is beautiful, so I'm looking forward to checking out his post. I've also been following @starthere and his experiment; I'll be curious to see what the final outcome is. And of course @newbiegames ...nice choice! I've been a part of newbieresteemday since its' inception, and have known Dave since then too. He is a pretty amazing guy around here for sure!
I'm off to have a look at your entries and spread a little upvoting and commenting love their way :)
Thats great .. thanks for checking them out !
Nice! I've seen this contest run by @thedarkhorse, but I never thought I'd be chosen by someone, thank you @rentmoney!!! You're so supportive to everyone here, I'm convinced you're going to be running all of Steemit soon!
Congrats to @steven-patrick as well, nice post - I'm from CA too, thanks for sharing some of our natural beauty!
Thanks! @rentmoney Love you bro! Hey I just noticed you are over 50. You must be doing it right. I always pictured us as similar rep, time on steemit but you are pulling away haha
Your welcome, our reps are very close.
I don't put too much stock into the rep score.
With flag wars and bots a rep score can be manipulated.
I look forward to reading your next informative post.
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Amazing idea of the posting I appreciate you
Thank you for your comment.
You have discovered some wonderful profiles. I'll be following both @steven-patrick and @starthere.
Awesome that is great news !
Thank you for your entry . Two nice reads . I have supported both of you featured post :)
That's Great !
Thanks for taking the time to check them out !
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