MONOMAD - October 23rd - IMPORTANT DELEGATIONS UPDATE.

ANNOUNCEMENT

As we all know the #newsteem changed a lot of things in our small ecosystem. Perhaps the most important and controversial one is related to selling votes, or more precisely to what is considered to be selling votes.

@monochromes never sold a single one, but it came to our attention that some people see delegations to projects like this as a form of vote ring and started to downvote those.

No one was ever obligated to delegate to us in order to be part of the community or to participate in our daily photographic challenge. We opened that possibility only and exclusively to be able to reward all the participants with a little bit more.

Having all these recent changes in mind we decided to stop upvoting our delegators, so there will be no room to label us as a voting ring.
The black and white community is a small niche and we are sure that sooner or later someone would see us as a circlejerk and not as the curation project we are (or try to be).

Honestly we don't know the impact that this decision will have on our already small SP. Most likely the majority of you will simply undelegate and move it to some other more profitable place instead, which is perfectly understandable.

The @monochromes project was always known for showcasing great black and white photography and for giving micro Steem rewards, so nothing will change anyway ;)

In other hand we have a considerable PHOTO token stack and a robust trail following our votes, perhaps that will be the path to follow, since Steem is going through some profound ideological and behavioral changes that are still far from being settled.

Interesting times ahead.

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_{@Monochromes, Flying Under The Radar Since March 2018!}

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ANY ENTRY MISSING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ELIMINATORY FACTORS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Contest Rules:

• Clearly mention the #monomad challenge in your post title or post body. For example: "This is my entry for the #monomad challenge". (ELIMINATORY FACTOR)
• Use the #monomad tag as your first tag.
• The posts must be in Black and White or Monochrome tones. (ELIMINATORY FACTOR)
• Colorsplash edits are allowed.
• Every picture must be yours and that will be checked, so don't even bother posting Google images. Stolen content will be immediately reported to @steemcleaners. (ELIMINATORY FACTOR)

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Black and white photography has its own discord server now.

https://discord.gg/4CZgMhc

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PRIZES:

FIRST PLACE	SECOND PLACE	THIRD PLACE
100% Upvote	50% Upvote	50% Upvote

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THE @Monochromes PROJECT IS BEING KINDLY SUPPORTED BY:
@Qurator @Azircon @Drakos @nikv

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Delegate some of that juicy SP to @monochromes!

100	200	300	400	500	1000	5000

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FIRST PLACE
"happy diver"
@victorbz

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SECOND PLACE
"A Couple"
@axeman

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THIRD PLACE
"Island / Ostrov"
@softa

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TODAY'S HONORABLE MENTIONS. PLEASE SHOW THESE TALENTED STEEMIANS SOME LOVE AS WELL!!

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Mention #1

@ackhoo

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Mention #2

@rem6923

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Mention #3

@adyorka

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Mention #4

@elkezaksek

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Mention #5

@kunschj

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Mention #6

@boddhisattva

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TOPICS LIST :(The daily topics are not mandatory anymore, but we will leave them here in case anyone needs some extra inspiration for any particular day)

• Monday - Macro
• Tuesday - Street
• Wednesday - Abstract
• Thursday - Animals
• Friday - Flowers
• Saturday - Silhouettes
• Sunday - Skies

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PRIZES :

• We will pick one winner, plus one second and one third place every day.
• The first place will receive a full upvote (100%).
• The second and third places will receive a 50% upvote each.
• The winners will be announced in the next day. (the winners from Monday will be announced on Tuesday, the ones from Tuesday will be announced on Wednesday and so on...).

RULES :

• Clearly mention the #monomad challenge in your post title or post body. For example: "This is my entry for the #monomad challenge". (ELIMINATORY FACTOR)
• Use the #monomad tag as your first tag.
• The posts must be in Black and White or Monochrome tones. (ELIMINATORY FACTOR)
• Colorsplash edits are allowed.
• Every picture must be yours and that will be checked, so don't even bother posting Google images. Stolen content will be immediately reported to @steemcleaners. (ELIMINATORY FACTOR)

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LOOKING FOR MORE EXPOSURE ?

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SUPPORT OUR WITNESS PROJECT BY VOTING FOR @QURATOR VIA:
SteemConnect or steemit.comTHAT SMALL GESTURE WILL MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF DIFFERENCE TO US!

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_{“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.”- Author Unknown -}

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