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 perfect! More great submissions, more engagement, and a bigger prize pool! Hopefully every week can look like this. Aside from all this, many submissions were able to bring in over $0.50 on their submission comments, it would be nice to bring in even more to give further support to all participants.

It was extremely hard to choose winners this week. As usual I decided to use engagement as the main deciding factor which seemed to be a bit less biased towards the first 2-3 submissions than in the past. Luckily I started reviewing these posts earlier in the week, otherwise it would have been too much work for one day.

A nice variety of winners, as we are starting to see more and more with this initiative.

Last Week's Winners

@axios - $ 5 STEEM prize

I'm not surprised that @axios pulls in as many upvotes and comments as he does, he's one of my favorite new steemians. He pumps out high quality posts like it's nothing. In this post he messes with your mind, in the best possible way! It's these kinds of questions that have really open my mind and helped me grow. Even if the questions are not new to you, they're always fun to contemplate and sometimes we need a reminder.

Your Reality Is NOT What You Think It Is

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@raj808 - $ 5 STEEM prize

@raj808 is back! I remember his last deadpost submission distinctly. Like this one, it was a marine adventure. This time, it's about whale sharks! I think I would wet my pants if I went out and did this, but I guess no one would ever know! Check out @raj808's other posts as well, always high quality.

Scuba Scribe Mexico – The Greatest Whale Shark Aggregation on the Planet #6

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@lavidaesunviaje - $ 4 STEEM prize

Raj isn't the only adventure type this week. How many of you have seen an active volcano? Yeah...not too many I bet. @lavidaesunviaje provides some stunning photos of one of those wonders of nature you should consider yourself lucky if you ever get to see. I've only managed to see a volcano from miles away, and even that was incredible so I can't imagine what it would be like to actually see lava! Awesome.

Fuego volcano, Guatemala!!!

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@yulem - $ 4 STEEM prize

@yulem is another one of my new favorite steemians (not new-new, but relatively new to me). He always leaves me such amazing comments. My own bias aside, this was a very interesting post introducing us to a kind of art that most of us probably haven't thought of before. He calls them "Yulem Objects" and he has a store that sells them, soon to accept Steem! Art can be found everywhere if your eyes are open!

What are Yulem Objects?

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@ldacey-laforge - $ 3 STEEM prize

Lots of familiar names this week, I had to try to keep my bias in check. Luckily the community seems to see what I see in @ldacey-laforge! This post was quite an emotional one for me, I could relate very well to being a bit "different" (perhaps many of us in this community could, we are all finding each other here) and judged pretty harshly because of it. But I'm still a winner and so is @ldacey-laforge. Check this out and check her out!

Are You a Winner?

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Week 17

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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