**Closed** Lucky 13! Week 13 of Pay It Forward Curation Contest
So many people have superstitions about numbers, black cats, and so forth. To me I've always found going against the grain of the masses helps me succeed. While many view 13 as an Unlucky Number, to me it's always been one I like as others don't. Right now to go against the grain I'm buying more BTC today which then will be used to buy more Steem once it clears in 2 weeks. Can't tell you how many times I said "I wish I had bought more Steem when it was around $1." Well here is that opportunity and I plan to capitalize on it.
Anyways onto the reason you are here, Week 13 of the Pay It Forward Curation Contest! New theme for the Bonus Featured Blogger, but if you want to use this theme across all Featured Blogger that would be fun too. 100% up to you on that part.
Optional: Themed 3rd Featured Blogger (New Theme)
This week for the Optional 3rd Featured Blogger the theme will be Artist Based. So any blog post that is music, creative writing, drawing, photography, or any other form of Art and there are no restrictions on the Reputation Score for the Optional Blogger, just find us a Quality Post to View!
Week 13 Rules (No Changes From Week 12)
For week 13 you will need a curation style entry that includes 2 High Quality Original Content Blog Posts from Level 50 or Below Bloggers.
- Curation Style Post of 2 Bloggers who are posting Quality Original Content
- Link to 1 recent blog post per featured blogger. Keep in mind that many will follow this link and upvote so pick a post that isn't close to payout!
- Include a link to this contest in your entry post
- The 2 bloggers you curate Must Be Rank 50 or Lower!
- You need to comment on this post with a link to your post, this is how I track everything!
👉👉Clarification for Quality Required for valid Entry👈👈
We are looking for Quality Original Content. We want to see no less then 200 words of original written content. So a single photo is fine as long as there is 200 words with it.
200 words is about 12 lines of content.
Posts from Parley and dmania are not acceptable.
New Account!
@pifc account has been created. Everyone should start following @pifc now and if possible please help power up the account. This account will be used to support the contest entries and featured bloggers. More voting power it can grow the more power it will have to help you grow in the future. Please lend a hand when @pifc posts it's Power Up posts over the next few weeks. Any and all support will be greatly appreciated.
Prizes: Steem Basic Income
This week at least 6 winners are going to get a sponsorship for #steembasicincome!
There will be 1 SBI Sponsorship per 8 entries into the contest on a random basis (minimum of 2).
There will be 4 Judges Choice SBI Sponsorships awarded based the quality of the bloggers you feature in the eyes of our Judges, @tryskele , @lynncoyle1, @energyaddict22, & @wolfhart.
@steembasicincome is run by @josephsavage and is a great program designed to provide a lifetime income to members who have SBI Shares.
Prizes: Steem-Bounty
@steem-bounty of 3 SBD has been created. I will only upvote entries for the Author's 80% of the Bounty. No other comments will be upvoted as the goal is to reward those who enter the contest.
@steem-bounty is run by @knircky and I'd like to ask that you set @steem-bounty as a witness. In order to do so you can go to: https://steemit.com/~witnesses and enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote.
Contest Date Range
To make sure that there is time for all entries to be viewed and the featured bloggers all get the exposure which this contest is designed to provide we will be only taking entries from Tuesday- Saturday 11:59pm CDT (CDT is Central Daylight Time). Need this time to revolve around my time so I can make changes to the posts at a set time for me, midnight.
If your unsure how CDT converts this link should show you your local time for 11:59pm.
| Week 12's Winners Post will be on Wednesday June 27th 12:01am CST US. |
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| Week 13's Winners Post will be on Wednesday July 4th 12:01am CST US. |
| Week 14's Contest will start with a post on Tuesday July 3rd 12:01am CST US. |
** Fair warning I will flag you if you are trying to boost your comment to get more of the bounty. This includes use of paid votes to increase your portion of the community side of the bounty.
Featured Blogger SBI Share Bonus
This bonus is fully funded with sponsorship from those listed below. Thank you all for your continued support!
| Week 13's Sponsors | Type of Sponsor | Recent Post or Discord Room |
|---|---|---|
| @dynamicgreentk | 1 SBI Share | Dynamic Steemians Discord |
| @thehoneys | 1 SBI Share | Need Confirmation |
| @bengy | 1 SBI Share | @classical-radio |
| @andrewharland | 4 SBI Shares | Well that was unexpected |
| @el-nailul | 1 SBI Share | Preppercookoff Challenge: delicious Survival Food [Billingual] |
| @kaliju | 3 SBD Steem-Bounty | 100 Steem Dollars to anyone who can ID my biggest fan. |
@EsteemApp, not Steemit.com
Post written on @esteemapp which is run by witness @good-karma (a Witness I support). If you write your entry posts on esteem there is a chance it will be curated and you get a bonus upvote from esteem and good-karma. That vote can really help your post. Give it a try!
Current Entries - Please Visit!!!
This is the real purpose of this contest, visit these posts and help upvote the bloggers featured. This list will be updated as new entries are added. Please check back during the week!!
| Blogger | Curation Entry Post |
|---|---|
| @bengy | Entry #1 |
| @rlt47 | Entry #2 |
| @viking-ventures | Entry #3 |
| @freedomshift | Entry #4 |
| @zorank | Entry #5 |
| @leeart | Entry #6 |
| @reonlouw | Entry #7 |
| @dipoabasch | Entry #8 Donate winnings to @pifc |
| @whitelite | Entry #9 |
| @cicisaja | Entry 10 |
| @angelro | Entry #11 |
Very much looking forward to seeing the great bloggers everyone finds this week!
Know that post payouts are low these days, but notice how large the SteemPower part of your payout is. This is really the thing that matters as this will allow all of us to have bigger upvotes once the price of steem rises again.
Earn Steem and Purchase Steem now and look back when we are at $3 saying "I'm glad I bought back when it was $1.30" instead of sitting there saying "I whish I had bought some when it was $1.30"
Cheers to another week! You managed to get this post and the @pifc post out, and your wife is still away haha
In my wanderings last week as judge, I think I have a few who may show up as entries this week. Fingers crossed :)
Looking forward to another successful week!
I was 2 minutes late for the second post, not to bad.
Might be worth dropping those people a note on one of their posts. I never trust that someone actually has GINA set up so tagging them doesn't always work.
@thedarkhorse, I actually just gave them the link to your post :) Step ahead of you buddy!
There's no shame in 2 minutes by the way; well, maybe a little haha
Thanks for being on top of things!
pfft... I have GINA setup. I added names I want to keep track of and anytime my name is mentioned in a post, but I ALWAYS go through my replies. I am hoping the for the same too. Really trying to encourage the features to give this a go :)
Cheers indeed. He is an expert juggler that one. He manages just as fine :D
and here is my entry for the contest this week.
https://mspsteem.com/payitforward/@dipoabasch/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-13-hard-work-not-lucky
I still need to add this, If I win another SBI this week... add it to @pifc too.
not because I don't need it for myself.. but in my condition, that's the only way to pay it forward for everything I got from this communtiy. Thank you
Entry #8
I feel bad, missed this last night.
For those that aren't using esteem (you are missing out on votes from esteem and good-karma) here is the steemit link:
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@dipoabasch/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-13-hard-work-not-lucky
That's OK.. I've been voted by him and the team sometimes ago😁 because I've been using esteem from the first day I started and I can see that they voted and how much I got from that paid out. They have standard on voting I think. Right now, their attention are to the user of esteem surfer (desktop version) which I can't set it up for now, I am not to busy to observe something like that 😂
Thank you... Number 8 is not a lucky number for the Chinese feng shui 🍀
I hadn't heard that there was any preference on what way you were posting, mobile vs desktop. But it's possible. Have asked someone that I think will know.
Sorry #8 isn't a good number, hope that it works out for you anyways.
It works with mobile once, you know the most users for esteem mobile apps were from Indonesia and Nigeria 😁, their votes were helping me to reach the 40 rep score within 3 months when none knows me or appreciate my posts.
Esteem surfer is a new baby from the team, a couple weeks ago, I was one in their curation trail to vote, because not so many users know that. But I keep up with the news and then realise, I can't be always on the lists though I use the app all the time, so.. I just exploring another apps to understand the benefits of it. I use the mspsteem to get vote from minnowsupport, but I can see some flaws now. I have been trying busy.org too. I even have the steepshot app too😊
That's OK with number 8, it's just number... Like 13 or 1, it won't bother me at all. Thanks for your attention @thedarkhorse.
Hello @pifc and @thedarkhorse :)
Here is My entry for this Lucky 13 week's contest
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@cicisaja/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-13-lucky-that-i-joined-steemit
enjoy your exploration!
Entry #10
My Entry and as usual running slow to make it...
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@angelro/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-13-win-sbi-and-steem-bounty-my-entry-08738d7656e8aest
Entry #11
Thank you, I was not late.
Here is this week's entry...
https://steemit.com/payitforward/@whitelite/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-13
Entry #9
Yes yes, on board for the SBI sponsorship and also a coming curation....
Let's see how many people this week can totally stump me again?? When you're stuck between 3 people and keep re-reading, I think you start to go a little crazy.
Last week overall, you guys did awesome that it was even hard to get it narrowed down. I wish I could vote for all of you participate and do more... someday when I have evolved from plankton poo...
Keep up the amazing work and don't be afraid to spread the word and encourage your features and friends to give it go for a week or 2 or even once a month.
I'm glad to say one of my recent candidates was picked up by @curie! 😀
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@abrahmatan/mermaid-artwork-step-by-step
It's cool when you find someone that is good enough they get picked by Curie.
Glad to see so many quick entries. Hope we see it get to 15 or more for this week.