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RE: The Old Dog Discusses: Helping Planktons And Minnows on The Steem Blockchain

in #minnows6 years ago

As @steevc already knows, I'm a bit sceptical of competitions. When I first joined there was very few, there was stuff like @minnowbooster and a couple of Lottery type offerings as well as services offering to upvote you for a couple of dollars. I took a break from Steemit for around four or five months and having come back, or at least notched up my activity a couple of gears I've noticed how every other post or three in row is a competition of one sort or another offering you payouts in return for your hard earned dollars. I was that depressed I wrote a post about it.

Personally, I just think there are some elements praying on the desperate with all these 'Games' I prefer services like @shadowbot who just ask to use your voting power and who in turn use the groups voting power to upvote you. It's always a danger when money is involved, it does tend to bring out the sharks.


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I understand your thoughts but here I think we need to differentiate between upvote bots, gambling DApps and pure contests.

In a pure contest like the ones I run there is nothing required from the member entering apart from, for example submitting a photograph. In return they get an upvote for their comment, perhaps an upvote for an article that they've written about their submission, a chance for prize money (Steem) which is completely funded by me and a lot of fun!

It's a win win win situation! :)

Does that change your thinking at all?

Oh, I'm behind anything that doesn't require a payment (Dollars) to partake. I don't even have a problem with allowing control of ones voting as is the situation with @shadowbot I just dislike the ones that take $2.00 or SP from minnows who've probably only got $10 or 10 SP to start with.


What someone says is far more important than how they say it!
Don't forget, you can upvote comments as well as posts!

With the Steem system you should not need to pay to enter contests. Accumulated votes should add up to something good if enough people are interested. A vote costs you nothing really.

When the DAap comes, and it will, it will be huge!

Some have posted links to members that list some contests. That's a help to be sure but a one stop shop is the way to go in my humble opinion.

This comment was interesting and encouraging.

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That's great. Things seem to be accelerating around here

Here is a semi teaser. This is our latest competition https://steemit.com/@dapplovers