Show Us Your Witnesses Weekly Contest #2: A Concept To Drive Up Witness Voting Engagement (Update On Episode #1; 10 Steem Prize Pool, 3 Possible Winners)
Hello Steemians. I happily welcome everyone of you to the second episode of Show Us Your Witnesses Contest#2. The first episode had come and gone and before we proceed with the details of this second episode, it is important to update the community with the outcome of the first episode.
The reason for this contest
The chief reason for this contest remains to enhance the community awareness of who witnesses are, their duties while also helping to step up witness voting engagement of the community.
Goals of this contest
Among the main goals of this contest are:
To deliver 50000 new witness votes within the duration it would run and based on the resources available to us.
To significantly improve witness voting engagement rate of the community, which is currently put at 25.97% of all active accounts, according to a report by @lukestokes.
The result of the first episode
In the just concluded episode, we had 9 entries. Unfortunately, however, we have only 3 winners as a lot of the contestants violated the rules. While some where disqualified for voting inactive witnesses, others did not have votes supporting their entries. The names of the contestants and how they faired are as follows:
@adoore-eu — 46 votes
@ijele – 4 votes; voted inactive witness, @roadscape, as of the time the contest was announced.
@princefizzy — 25 votes
@marpemusic — no vote
@kidops — 1 vote
@yura81 — no vote
@realseb — no vote
@donaldpete — no vote; voted inactive witness @roadscape.
@hendeca8 — no vote; uploaded screenshot not showing the whole witnesses voted for.
By rules of this contest, all the contestants that don't have at least one community vote supporting their entries, all the contestants whose screenshot uploads only showed partial witnesses they voted for, and those who voted inactive witnesses, are hereby disqualified.
Based on this, our winners are as follows!:
@kidops emerged the second runner up with 1 vote & wins 4steem!
@princefizzy emerged the first runner up with 25 votes & wins 6steem!!
@adoore-eu emerged winner with incredible 46 valid votes & wins 8steem!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!
The Second Episode
This episode is the same as the first episode in terms of rules and mode of entry. However, the winnable prize has been scaled down to 10 SBD largely because we are yet to get the needed sponsors. Currently, what's used to sustain this scheme is earnings from @eurogee's account.
As before, we won't tell you witnesses to vote for as canvassing support for particular witnesses are not the aim of this contest. We will be as neutral as possible. But we will show you how to vote and those you must not vote for because they are currently inactive.
How to vote for witnesses
Before you go voting, click this: https://steemian.info/witnesses. Take note of all the witnesses. Those in red colour have been struckthrough. This shows that they are inactive for now. So they should not be among witnesses you will choose. This is only valid for now.
Click this link in the page that opens, you will see a list of top 50 witnesses. If your choice witnesses are among the 50, click on the corresponding upvote icon to vote. If they are not among the top 50, scroll down and you will see a box similar to the below image. Type in the name of your choice witness and vote.
The rule of the contest & how to submit your entry
You must RESTEEM this contest to reach wider audience.
You must vote for at least 20 witnesses (you can vote for the maximum 30 allowed witnesses if you have reasons to)
Visit https://steemd.com/@urusername(substitute @urusername with your Steemit username). Scroll down and you will see the all the list of all the witnesses you voted for. Screenshot/snapshot it.
In not more than 60 words, state the roles witnesses play in sustaining steem blockchain as a reply comment to this contest article; and upload the screenshot/snapshot of your chosen witnesses under your comment.
Invite your friends to come and upvote your comment.
All your chosen witnesses must be active at the time of choosing them. To find out those that are active, refer to the Part I under How to vote for witnesses above.
Voting proxies attract outright disqualification.
This contest will come to an end at exactly 3:00 pm +1 GMT , Saturday, February 10th, 2018.
NB: The factors that determines who wins remain the contestant's understanding of roles of witnesses to steem blockchain and the number of upvotes generated by contestant's entry.
Prizes
First Position: 5 Steem
Second Position: 3 steem
Third Position: 2 steem
Appreciation to witnesses & the entire community
Our hearts go to all those who have shown us massive support by resteeming/upvoting the first episode of this contest. Thanks very much and don't relent on your support for this initiative. We are particularly grateful for the following witnesses for their supports to the first episode of this contest; namely @surpassinggoogle (witness name: steemgigs), @lukestokes (witness name: lukestokes.mhth), @netuoso, @pfunk and @sircork who not only upvoted and resteemed the post, but also sent in the sum of 4.865 SBD to support the initiative. God bless you sirs.
Achievement
In the first episode of this contest, we had 9 entries who voted the maximum allowed 30 witnesses. Witness votes delivered to witness voters' registry/record = 9 multiplied by 30, which is 270 votes.
We have achieved 270 witness votes by this initiative; our target remain 50,000 votes.
Call for sponsorship
We seek your support to increase the number of possible winners to 10 in order to attain the objectives of this contest. You can support us by:
Donating steem/SBD to @eurogee with memo SHOW US YOUR WITNESSES CONTEST WEEKLY CONTEST
Regularly upvoting this contest.
Regularly resteeming this contest.
Following @eurogee and including @eurogee in your autovoter application.
To the entire community, please consider supporting us by upvoting & resteeming this post. Thanks and may God bless you as you do
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Newbie's Corner
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Witnesses are equivalent to life and blood of steem blockchain. Without them, the blockchain will seize to function and we will all be stranded here. Click here to read more on why it is important to vote for witnesses
In the Steem blockchain, witnesses play the role of timestamping transactions and validating signatures by including them in blocks.
What is a Block?
A block is any group of transactions which updates the state of the database. Whenever a witness produces a block, they get paid. If a witness doesn't produce a block, then they won't be paid and maybe voted-out
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Steem witnesses play a crucial part in how the STEEM network functions. The blockchain require set of people to create blocks and uses a consensus mechanism called delegated proof of stake, or DPOS.
They create blocks (thus process transactions)
The most important role is to produce a price feed, which is how STEEM Dollars are always worth $1 in STEEM.
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It's a great opportunity.
The intents behind the contest is a very nice one, most of the witnesses i voted, have been on my mind ever since but i kept procrastinating but with the contest in play, everything was done under some minutes.
Sometimes people just need a catalyst to do something that needs to be done. That's why i like supporting creative contests, they tend to engage people and most times bring out the best in them.
Nice work @eurogee
It gladdens my heart to know someone...a contestant for that matter understands the hidden purpose of this contest. Success boss
This are just days of my humble beginning, thanks to @mahdiyari for opening my eye to the whole witness stuff..
@Witnesses play enormous pivotal roles for sustenance of steem ecosystem.
They are the community's network block producers and the governance body of steem ecosystem.
They are the attestation of steemit blockchain.
They process every transaction on the system.
Steemit is free but witnesses determines its future because its an obligation to every Steemian to vote for witnesses.
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witnesses has a different level of involvement on the Steem platform. They range from developers, programmers, techies, engineers, to regular people, from all over the world. Each contributes to the community in their own ways. Witnesses usually post in the witness-category. They introduce themselves by describing their projects and how they envision their contribution to Steem.
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Congratulations to all the participants. From the contest, i am sure they are now enlightened about who a witness is. This contest will go a long way in telling people about witnesses. It is another way of appreciating them for what they are doing in the system.
Hopefully this will continue. I hope it does.
Thanks.
You boss. You hit the nail and that's the essence. Thanks
Wow, thank you so very much first for the oportunity and then for reward. Am so happy to have won this contest and i appreciate you for your kindness. May God bless you. Looking forward to enriching others too with my steems
You are most welcome dear
@eurogee, you are really touching lives boss, keep up the good work.
congratulations to all the winners of the first contest
Thanks boss
My utmost gratitude goes to the inventor of this befitting contest, the utmost leader of @euronation, in the person of @eurogee, it a great privilege knowing you Boss and for giving me the chance to participate In this contest, then I owe some respect to my amiable instructor @smyle I'm grateful. To all the witnesses, we all on steemit say a Big Thank you because you guys are the Blood and soul off steemit Blockchain.
Then to my co constant that bagged the first position @adoore-eu congratulations
I LOVE EURONATION
Hahahahahsh thanks boss!
Congrats also dear
wat a nice one here
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Thank you @eurogee for giving Steemians (especially minnows) a chance to get free STEEM.
Wow. That's a good news. Lol