🙚 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔/𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚? 🙘

That is a very deep, philosophical question for the end of the week, haha! Courting followers and building community are two of The 4 Big Cs of Steemit Success, according to a post I've read by @maverickfoo from 5 months ago. I have had this exemplified in a very tangible way more recently by @coruscate. She too runs many competitions with #SteemMonsters cards and/or booster packs as prizes. But like your competition here, Coruscate's recent contests haven't actually been "about" SteemMonsters. While the prizes are still monster-related, the entry requirements for the competition are often more personally revealing and community-building in nature. One of her recent competitions had us posting a little-known fact about ourselves and replying to someone else's entry, while another contest required us to write about how crypto has created more freedom in our lives.

   

As a relatively new Steemian myself, I relish these opportunities to network and get to know people here on the Steem blockchain. Sure, the Steem ecosystem provides us with the opportunity to earn cryptocurrency, and some people have done very well off of it. But financial wealth should not be the only measure of success we use. This is, after all, a social site, first and foremost, and the intangible benefits which we receive by participating and engaging can be just as real as being able to cash out our crypto earnings to fiat currency. I try to enter as many of these contests as I can, but not just to try to win. I also like to engage with those running the competition, and with the other contestants. Maybe someone that I discuss this competition with might decide from that, to start following my blog?