"Paying It Forward Contest" - ed. 2 WINNERS! Great feedback!
Edition 2 of Paying it Forward #PIF has come to a close and the results are in!
This month we had 18 newcomers to the Hive who submitted a valid entry comment to the contest. Yay! This is amazing and a huge increase over last month.
Of course, this left me with quite a lot of vetting and validating to do before I could announce the winners and send them their prizes, so my apologies for this but you all made this more popular ;-) and that is great news!!!
I was so encouraged by the feedback comments in the entry posts. If you haven't read them all yet, you can find them here and here.
After vetting/validating:
1st prize:
@tdctunes wins 25 POB, a follow, and a reblog
2nd prize:
@amcrypto wins 15 POB, a follow, and a reblog
Here is the screenshot from random.org:
3rd prize (Engagement):
@mmykel wins 10 POB, already followed, and a reblog
Here is the screenshot from Random.org:
Discretionary awards:
This was so very hard. In fact, there were so many great comments and I just could not split out a favourite! So, I decided to award 5 POBs to 6 different people who made entry posts. Originally, this discretionary award was up to 15 POB to be split between a maximum of 3 people. I have chosen to increase this to 30 POBs between 6, because you guys are all fantastic! I wish I could have given each and every entrant some POB, but in the end, I had to make a decision and these are the lucky winners of 5 POB for their entry posts.
@agreste
@mondhero
@ekotmordemy
@frost77
@funshee
@chincoculbert
**All POB transfers have been made except those for @funshee and @chincoculbert. ** As I am more familiar with you guys than the others, I hope you don't mind waiting til sometime on Saturday as I'll have some more POB coming to me and will be able to transfer to you then (the rest of mine is all powered up!). you know I'm good for it! 😜🙏
Thank you everyone for entering and I wish you all the very best on your Hive journeys.
If you joined Hive from 1st August 2021 onwards, then look out for next month's contest as you will still be eligible.
Hey - thanks so much! And mostly thanks for running something like this to encourage new people like me!
You are very welcome :-)
Thank you for the opportunity 🙂. This was pretty amazing and fun. I enjoyed the opportunity to compete and participate in this event
Awesome! Thanks for supporting me and taking part. I loved your refreshingly honest and frank views!
At least with me you know what your getting
You have really done a great job @samsmith, and so considerate of you to even considered giving out extra prize to other participate who are not among the lucky winners.
Your thoughtful act of generosity is worth emulating, thank you and may God bless your efforts.
hey @funshee, transfer now done to you and @chincoculbert. Dropped in 1 extra POB for each of you for your patience. I know it's not a lot but every little adds to the stack😜Thank you for supporting me and for taking part in the contest.
Ooh! Dear Samsmith, your generosity and kindness is out of this world , i don't even know what to say. But thank you.
And i hope some day soon, i will be able to pay this kindness forward here as well
🙏🙏😊🤗
Hehe, @samsmith1971, I haven't even thanked you for discreetly giving us prizes for reasons I don't even know about and yet you still went on to add extra. Madam, where does your level of generosity come from??..you're too kind my dear, and I say thank you very much.
But I was secretly hoping for a prize because I'm still a little child who enjoys presents, haha
You're welcome! As I said in the results post, I just couldn't get it down to 3 winners of the discretionary prize and so I doubled the discretionary prizes and handed them out to 6 people. The extra 1 POB was just to thank you and @funshee for being patient with me for another day so I could send you your rewards ;-)
I understand that perfectly, but even if it took a week to send the rewards, I'll have still been patient enough because I didn't really deserve it. Haha
thanks so much, you have a good heart. bless you
I am only too happy to support newcomers like myself :-)
Thank you so much for your encouragement and your efforts to manage the shares
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It is my pleasure :-)
Thank you so much @samsmith1971 for this initiative! I learned a lot in the exchange with @mmykel and with the @ryzeonline guides you recommended. greetings from Argentina!
You're welcome.
Thank you once again @ mmykel for going above and beyond in welcoming the new entrants in the contest comments section. I very much appreciated your consistent and supportive engagement🙏.
You're welcome. I will support what comes from you. 😃
The reason is simple. You're amazing. And you're also supportive.
🙏
Excellent to hear @agreste and it is my pleasure to help out where I can. If you look you will find many friendly helpful faces on the Hive 😊😊Greetings from the UK. Have a great weekend 🙏
I'm honored! 🙏
Congrats to the winners, I'm looking forward to seeing more stuffs from y'all. Congrats @samsmith1971 for being able to pull off this contest again, it's only going to get better, kudos!
You are welcome! And a 🙌to it getting better😎
Yeah sure...it's going to get a lot bigger and better
Thank you. @samsmith
My pleasure😎
Love this unitiative Sam, it's always great to see new users being incentivised to get involved in community contests, fair play to you Pal, I look forward to seeing new contests and where I can, I will add a little curation here and there to help this worthy cause grow. Keep up the great work.
Thanks mate! Appreciate it. Loving offering support to newcomers and promoting the intrinsic values at the same time ;-)
Thats always a win in my book Pal, nothing beats that feeling of enjoying what you do.