Resteem The Deadpost Initiative! - Week 15 - Share your most undervalued work + week 14 winners ($12 STEEM prize pool)
What is the Deadpost Intitiative?
The Deadpost Initiative is an attempt to give love to some posts that were overlooked during their short 7 day life span, a chance to bring your old posts back to life and maybe make some friends in the process. The goal is not only to share some love with SBD but also by engagement to generate discussion.
Last week
This week was truly a nightmare to judge. There were just too many posts deserving of steem...I had a hard time keeping track of them all. I realized that I need to start work on the Deadposts earlier in the week as wellbecause there is just too much to go through and I don't want to be half assed about it.
The engagement was incredible!!! I hope you are making friends with each other and finding users you would like to follow more closely. Please do not be discouraged if you did not win anything. It may have been because you posted too late in the week or it may have been because you didn't write anything to draw readers in. I feel guilty not rewarding every single entry this week.
Luckily @macchiata and @fishyculture came to save the day and lend me a hand with the rewards, otherwise I would have came out with a pretty heavy loss. These guys are minnows too and they're going out of their way to keep this initiative strong so go check out their work and show some respect! They deserve it!
As usual engagement was the biggest factor on whether or not a post won. I also looked at the amount of upvotes, the quality of the post and how undervalued it was (a $0.00 post may have a better shot than a $3.00 post) etc.
Last Week's Winners
@crystalize - $ 2.5 STEEM prize
This week marks our first win for handmades! Here @crystalize shows us the process of making her beautiful beaded lamps. The comments were insane, this was so popular and rightfully so! I can't believe the variety of talent we find at steemit, and underpaid talent at that.
Completed Project : Handmade Beaded Lamps!
@celestal - $ 2.5 STEEM prize
@celestal shows shares us the story of an ex-convict and his experience in and out of jail. I find this topic fascinating as we tend to think criminals are so very different from regular people. I enjoy any attempt to show them as humans because they are, even the worst of them. The comments were just as fascinating. Great Deadpost!
Lecture from a REAL PRISONER - My Civil Service #9
@irastra - $ 2.5 STEEM prize
Here's a topic we don't hear about in the news, but if you like to search the far corners of the internet, you may be pretty familiar with it. Geoengineering and it's effects on the environment. Awesome Deadpost.
Geoengineering Series #2 - Weather Modification Jobs
@abyni - $ 2.5 STEEM prize
@abyni is the first to win a prize for a deadpost song. She plays a mean ukelele so check it out.
Steemit Open Mic Week 62: Budapest Ukulele Cover
@creationofcare - $ 2 STEEM prize
I wasn't going to award this post because it didn't receive any comments but when I saw it I thought ”Why the hell not!!!!" You guys messed up by not commenting and voting on this one, what an amazing piece of art! Hint: post earlier in the week.
Completion of I:The Magician Medicine Bag
Week 15
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Share your best Deadpost in the comments!
The best posts will be rewarded with half of the payout from this post (or a minimum of $10 SBD or STEEM, split between winners) and will be featured in a future post.
Rules
•Please only submit 1 post.
•Posts must have a payout of less than $5.
•Posts must be at least one month old.
•I recommend you don't enter the same post twice in the same month if you didn't win the first time.
•Vote for 1-3 post by others. Please share WHY you liked their posts. If you don't vote for someone else's post by commenting you will not be eligible to win.
•Winners will be chosen based on how original, creative, informative and well written their posts are, as well as how well received they are in the comments. I will use the quality of comments as the main factor in judging who wins.
•There will be a slight bias towards smaller accounts but large accounts are welcome to join and compete or join just for fun and to share their old work.
•There may also be prizes for stellar comments and engagement.
•There will be 2 or more winners depending on how big the payout for this post is and depending on how many quality posts are entered into the contest.
- Please upvote generously on your favorite post in the comments below, we'd like to generate a sense much support as possible for all participants and the prize pool is still growing.
Upvote and resteem to help us raise our reward pool! And remember to comment and upvote on comments in this post please to show support for deadposts! :-)
The prize pool will be half of the post payout or at least $10
I'm still looking for SP delegation to offer some payout on all submissions. If you can help, please let me know :-)
This is not merely a contest, this is an opportunity to have your material read and an opportunity for us to really discuss each other's posts.
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Confessions of the Damaged - a collection of short stories
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by @skyleap
Here is my entry. An attempt to write pretty complete story for a wedding photoshoot with examples and description...
https://steemit.com/photography/@axeman/wedding-stories-l-and-i
The photos are so classy. I have voted your comment since voting on an older post will not help. I also tweeted it so that more people are aware of your beautiful work.
Wow! This one ABSOLUTELY deserves more recognition. You're a brilliant photographer @axeman. I'm guessing you already know that though ;-)
I'm being honest: these are some of the most creative wedding photos I've ever seen. Very well done. You got my vote sir!
Here's my favorite one:
Hey, great to hear. Though cant say I'm a wedding photographer in fact, but happens time to time...
Well props. It makes sense with your creative, unique approach here.
I agree!!!
I really like the idea of shooting wedding photos in unconventional settings! I bet it's also much more memorable for the couple. Great pics!
Your entry is really good!!! I like it :-)))
I love your work! :-D
@axeman I've been following you from almost the first day of receiving an account...
You never disappoint and always post interesting or amazing shots...
Very enjoyable. The concept got me formulating a ghost story in my mind, where they come across a newlywed ghost couple. Not necessarily a grim outcome either, maybe something overall positive...
Well, in any case such kind of a shoot not acceptable to everybody, this bride and groom was much into this kind of photoshoot, so everything worked just well :) But happens only standard photoes being requested..
Awesome concept here @whatamidoing! I discovered this post via a rec from @gillianpearce!
Here's my entry: This Is Why I Live My Life Inversely
An unbelievable story - and full of drama spliced with a potentially life-altering lesson.
This... is worth... a read...
This... has... my vote... :c)
Thank you so much @pathforger! I really appreciate that. Thank you for taking the time to read and share your thoughts :)
That was probably the most entertaining and engaging post with such length I've ever read. There's a lot of wisdom one can take from this. Great write!
So glad you enjoyed it @celestal :) thank you!
Here is something completely different from my last entry, but I think it has a lot of heart. And who wouldn't click that hot tub thumbnail? https://steemit.com/photography/@creationofcare/ruins-on-waucoba-rd-death-valley-thanksgiving-2
I like your pictures and your post :-D!!! Really interesting!!!
Thanks!
You're welcome :-)))
This is quite a unique environment @creationofcare. Your photos are very interesting as well. Feels like a great place to film a movie. There's something that's kind of eerie about it. I'm diggin' this post man. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, @axios! I love Death Valley, it is certainly harsh yet gorgeous, and full of ghostly ruins. We drove 50 miles off the pavement to attend this Thanksgiving weekend at the hot springs. Not everyone made it. One person rented a car, and the washboard roads dropped the radiator to the ground, stranding her!
That sounds intense! Sounds like the real deal out there. Never been to the death valley but damn, props for being quite the adventurer!
"Mad Props" ;) like the photo hehe.
If you ever decide to visit DV, I recommend doing it during the spring wildflower season. It becomes magically transformed!
Quite an exposition on such an abandoned place. In case of need you can even make yourself a shelter. And some thousand or more years later if the archelogists still exist as a profession they'll guess about this reckless civilization that left this behind.
It always kind of shocks me to see how much stuff mining operations just left lying around when they abandoned the sites.
Thank you very much for the prize. It's a kind and generous competition. I was somehow pondering if I should participate further (others should have a chance as well). Maybe I should wait for the next month, but maybe some participants find this interesting. It was the beginning of a series yet to be continued.
https://steemit.com/propaganda/@irastra/propaganda-edward-bernays-book-review
I sometimes encounter that same issue - the question of whether to keep entering after winning (not an issue this time ^_^). My personal balance is to take a week's break from the contest and only participate in voting for others. But different people will use different methods.
I do not tend to go for book reviews but the psychology and power balance of individuals and peoples -and vested interests - made for interesting reading. I'll decide a little later this week whether this has my second vote as its early days - but well done on the review. :c)
here is my entry Destress in five minutes
Well, since I leave at Baltic Sea coast, I purely agree with your story. When I go for a sunset photoshoot, that's the time when I forget about all the rest, no problem remains (well, if only wet shoes from a sudden wave)
Very nice story
Yes, if we could only do this once a day the day starts having more hours than 24.
Thank you for the prize. It was great to observe the interaction in last weeks deadpost intiative.. Good thing you noticed the Medicine Bag! Would've gone unnoticed for me also.
I have a deadpost that follows the theme of my last deadpost:
Is Our Criminal Justice Flawed? | Retributive Justice and the (il)logic Behind It
Small correction for your summary of my deadpost: He got out of closed section jail but he is still in a open prison. Sorry if that came unclear in the post.
I hope the laws are rewritten in such a way that the prisoners do not turn even more aggressive. They can be led to live in a country where they are made to serve the needy, in a supervised environment instead of spending time, cooped up in a cell and wasting their life
Well, I hope you don't get punished as your post will be one month old just tomorrow (at least on my computer time). Anyway, what is right and what is wrong depends on the society and the rules set that constitue it. Even today they might be quite disparate on this planet, and something what might be abominal among people living in one society might be completely normal in another society, a set rule so to say. So, what is ideal circumstances for an individual in one society could be a totally horrific, even repulsive, for an individual from another. The only hope there is, is that the laws change in the course of time (hopefully for the better), otherwise everywhere on the planet might be impossible to live. The only problem is that we are born into societal rules and the strings of the community might be anything on the scale from tight and benevolent to just downright abusive, so by the time we grow up, we are part of this and carrying it out, too. Sometimes it appears like diverse societies live on separate planets.
Oh, didn't realize as next to the post it said 'last month' when looking at my blog.
Thank you for such in depth comment, I clearly got you thinking, for which I'm happy!
It's nice to read some rational thinking regarding such an emotional subject for many. Your essay allows for a civilized debate on a number of levels. For example, you make it clear that you're using a Utilitarian yardstick to measure retributive justice. A lot of people seem to be more Deontological, at least when meting out penalties to others. I feel a lot of ambivalence about the whole system.
Thank you @creationofcare for your comment and feedback!
Yes, throwing random sentences with no backup have no meaning. Good arguments are the key!
You're definitely not the only one.
@celestal, it does seem that your views on justice are quite alligned with my own - except that I have allowed my views of the so-called justice system to develop into a seething contempt of it. It is in recognition of the need for me to cool down that I have not often delve into such.
I appreciate the depth to which you delve into this subject - and your jibe at retributivism. I am presently trying to break myself out of a negativity rut and so it may be some time before I revisit such subjects.
Oh. This has my vote!
Thank you @pathforger, I hope you'll get back on track.
accidental comment, should probably go to sleep before anymore of these happen
Fire Destroys and Fire Cleanses - Reflecting Upon an Assassination
This is a contribution of a different sort - my thoughts in the immediate aftermath of the killing of a blogger/journalist. While I did not predict her unfortunate demise - there is something else that I did rather accurately predict - and is going strong even now.
As always, thank you to @whatamidoing for the sterling effort(and also to last week's winners (I had 'not' noticed that last one!)!) :c)
A shocking event always ripples throughout the community, especially if it's violent and trespassing the rules accepted within community. I started asking myself sometime ago, how come that some of those whistleblowers or journalists, who expose the connections and works unseen to the public, get protection and some just die or are assassinated. Are some the chosen ones and the others just imposters? Or is it the males get the protection and the females don't? Does a woman get sacrificed, so she can raise out of the flames like some Jeanne D'arc? And the males get police/state protection?
Thank you for the very thoughtful comment as well as your up-vote @irastra. :c)
Yes, every such violent and deadly event ripples throughout any given community - threatening to redefine the core of that which defines it.
I honestly had not noticed that female whistle-blowers are granted less protection or a greater degree of persecution within 'western' nations. That being said, I am sure that you have a few other cases in mind when you say so.
Of course, whether any given whistleblower requires protections will vary from case to case and the nature of the 'slighted' party is perhaps the most notable factor to be considered.
I personally think that any measures of protection should begin from before the act of whistle-blowing - but then again, not everybody is so inclined to peruse of such protections because of reasons unique to each of them. In truth this rabbit hole goes deeper than can be given due consideration in a comment - but it bears thinking about that the consequences of such tragedies tend to fan out far beyond the person, time and place.
Thanks again. :c)
I remember reading about her and I really appreciate your eulogy as you say. A beautiful and important article.
Thank you kindly, @creationofcare, both for your up-vote and your encouraging comment. :c)
Her memory is currently undergoing that phoenix-like transformation the I mentioned therein. Powerful political forces are using her memory and the circumstances of her demise for their political gain, and for better or for worse that has served to cleanse the looser grime from her life - her less noble actions taken.
Human memory is a funny thing.
Thnaks again.
This is finilly my post:
https://steemit.com/painting/@carolineschell/without-title-2-senza-titolo-2
Hope you like it ;-D
Very nice. I want to come up with a title liked you requested in the post, but for now I can't think of anything as classy. Let's call it "Classy" and leave it at that.
Thank you soooo much! I like this title!!!!! ;-D It's perfect :-))))
All success starts with you! Set your goal and slowly work for it. Don't forget patience and focus on what are you doing. Presence of mind and Think positive. https://steemit.com/life/@hiarevalo/how-to-practice-the-laws-of-attraction
last month i shared photography post. My entry is - https://steemit.com/photography/@prashantvasave/urzb2-photography-with-my-vivo-v7