A Weekend at Contests
Steem Basic Income
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
Contests, Giveaways and Raffles!
Did you survive HF21 and 22? Well, you’re here so I guess you did. There were some hiccups, but overall it was fairly painless...whether it turns out to be a good thing or not, we have to wait and see.
But one thing I’m sure of is SBI is still one of the best things on the blockchain. In this contest update you have many chances to get some more for yourself. So while the voting changes and other impacts of the update get sorted out, go try and grow your account. My fingers are crossed Steem will be doing much better soon.
[Editor note: The SBI upvote bot is currently in 'replay mode' after deploying some upgrades and it should start voting automatically when replay is completed.]
Contest participants
Please try to think about your submissions and reward these great hosts with quality submissions. If you enjoy somebody’s contest format, check their feed for more, and follow them so you don’t have to wait for our listing to come out!
If you want to see more contests before we mention them, check the #steembasicincome tag in Trending or New and see what's happening! We also have a contests channel in our Discord server.
Each contest may have its own rules, so please read the contest post thoroughly before entering.
Today’s featured contests
@bananafish
Finish the Story Contest was founded by @f3nix and is run by him and the Bananafish Paladins via the @bananafish account which now hosts the contest that runs every Friday. He posts the beginning of a story, and you finish it. Then you post your complete story for everyone to read. One of the prizes is SBI units. The important thing to know about this contest is that it's an ongoing creativity workshop, so if you miss one deadline you can participate in the next.
Mizu No Oto is founded on the belief that every image has a haiku. It’s an @bananafish contest curated by @marcoriccardi, a real haijin (haiku poet) and it's a great occasion to learn this form of poetry. It runs twice monthly, once in English and once in Spanish.
Tell a Story to Me is a contest started by @calluna, who being potassium minded, brought it over to the BananaFish Realms. Tell a story following the prompt to win some cool prizes!
And now for the contest list
https://steemit.com/creativecoin/@kiokizz/sentry-71p1cryvyw
Answer the question to enter.https://steemit.com/contestkings/@marianaemilia/contest-escolha-o-tema-e-ganhe-sbi-25
Choose a theme and comment and you could win SBI.https://steemit.com/creativecoin/@kiokizz/whiterhino-s6tvbowlhu
Answer the day’s question about coffee to enter.https://steempeak.com/socalsteemit/@socalsteemit/show-us-your-california-contest-week-46
Show your SoCal this weekend!https://steempeak.com/palnet/@stever82/5efmhs-steem-monsters-sbi-or-pal-token-giveaway-and-winner-announcement
Ask for SBI as your prize and you could win!https://steemit.com/butterflyday/@whatisnew/thursday-is-butterfly-day-and-insect-day-giveaway-week-25
Share your butterfly or insect photos and art to enter.https://steemit.com/minecraft/@immanuel94/skyroad-me-event-or-play-icebowling-with-snowballs-and-earn-sbi-plkn-or-battle-gg-or-20-sbi-pool
Play Minecraft to earn SBI shares.https://steempeak.com/buildbetter/@ecoinstant/massive-sbi-giveaway-participatory-contest-to-highlight-future-projects-built-on-steem-333-steem-prize-pool-starts-growing-now
Comment on your favorite Steem project, but read the post to make sure your comment qualifies.https://steemit.com/sbi/@senstless/win-1-steem-basic-income-share-hobgoblin-1-palcoin-no-upvote-no-follow-no-resteem-58-guess-the-price-of-silver
Guess the price of silver to win!https://steemit.com/puzzle/@quantumdeveloper/math-contest-2-sbi-prize-7-announcement-previously-mathematical-sbi-contest
Solve some math problems to win SBI!
Check out these recurring contests too!
Quite a few industrious Steemians run contests regularly. Here is a list of the ones we know about at the moment. All of these have been running for months so you can count on their posted schedule.
Be sure to check each account and look for the contest name as the links change each week. Also remember to read the full contest description as the rules and prize values sometimes change.
Easy SBI Contest
The ‘Easy SBI contest’ requires only a single comment (of any nature) to be in the draw. The winner is drawn at random the following day.
Paying it Forward
In the spirit of helping new Steemians, this contest focuses on curating great content and is run by @pifc. It runs weekly on Mondays and asks that you find two "High Quality Original Content Blog Posts" to recommend for curation. Four judges decide which recommendations were the best and multiple winners get SBI units. Follow @pifc to see the latest contest post and read it for full details.
Thank you economy
Every week you can visit the Thank You Economy contest and tag someone who has helped you. When you do, both of you could win SBI units from the ever growing prize pool!
Punday Monday
From the creator:
What is Punday?
Punday is the best day. It's the day we post a topic upon which you are invited to pun in the comments for a chance at SBI shares. You get to read all the incredible puns, and you can try your hand at puns, and you can just bask in the warmth and love that punsters offer. I am your Puntender, and I serve hot puncakes with Mapun Syrpun.
Steemexplorer’s Daily
@steemexplorers is a project operated by @jonnyla08 and the “Monsters Madness Giveaways” team which aims to consistently help others find resources to improve their Steemit user experiences, network with other community members and achieving personal growth. We hope to be a central source of information and guidance for all Steemians. Steemexplorers has some exciting projects in the works. Presently while we work through these projects we conduct FREE daily giveaways of SBI shares among other things throughout the other members of our team. Please see the instructions in our daily giveaways for more information on how to participate.
Lyric Poetry Contest
With the contest using the prompt, the poet will show with his verbal expression illustrate a deep feeling, a reflection, a state of the spirit, as experiential and aesthetic manifestations.
Wednesday Walk
Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of and share a post on a Wednesday with the #wednesdaywalk tag for a chance to receive SBI.
MeatyMondays!
Sponsored by Jimmy's Sauces, @BraaiBoy hosts MeatyMondays and asks you to share a picture of a recent braai (aka BBQ) to win. That's it... No Likes or Resteems etc. required. 7 SBI units (and other prizes - incl a real-world Jimmy's Sauce hamper) are up for grabs. Yum! Mondays just got better.
Pirate Sunday
Come help tell the adventures of Captain K, a fictional character with a quite a history! To enter, read the current post and previous stories, then write your own version of what “piratey” things he gets up to next.
@phortun´s Monday tipping contest
Weekly guessing game: guess the price of Steem in seven days and win 5 SBI
ZapFic Writing Contest
Like super short stories? Try writing one in 232 characters or fewer for your chance to win SBI in this contest run by @felt.buzz. Every Wednesday he posts a new prompt to use for your very short story. You can post your story wherever you want, just make sure to keep it under 232 characters.
Caption Contest
Help celebrate digital art by creating creative captions for the week’s selected picture. Read all the rules carefully to be sure your entry qualifies for the SBI prizes.
@freewritehouse
The folks over at @freewritehouse run three contests each week. All of them are designed to encourage community engagement and highlight other's work. Besides the prizes from the @freewritehouse account, they are always interested in hearing from anyone who will sponsor a contest and so they can offer even bigger prizes.
A Favorite Freewrite You Read contest runs every Tuesday for just 24 hours. You need to read some freewrites written (you can read this post to see what they are), and then comment on the contest posts about which ones you liked best and why. If they choose your comment you win units of SBI.
Recommend your Favorite Freewrite Poem is a poetry version of the Favorite Freewrite contest and it runs every Friday. Make a comment about a freewrite poem you loved and you could win SBI units. But be quick! When Friday is over, so is the contest - until the next week that is.
The FreeWrite House We-Writes kick it off every Monday with a new prompt. Just complete the story with a five minute free write (or longer if you choose) and you could win 5 SBI shares.
NOTE: Contest images used with permission from their owners.
How to get on the recurring contest list
Do you run a regular contest that you’d like to see in our recurring contest section? We have some simple criteria you need to have to be included:
- SBI units must be part of the prizes given out.
- Contest needs to be running 5 weeks or 10 contests on a consistent schedule, whichever comes first.
- Meet Contest King’s no upvote, no resteem, and no follow conditions.
If you think your contest qualifies let us know in the comments or on our Discord channel and we’ll check it out.
Writer Bio
This Contest listing was prepared for us by @ntowl!
@ntowl is a freelance copywriter who plans on being a best-selling author. Her writing is all over the web, but most of it belongs to other people who paid her to write it. Follow her on Steemit for writing advice and encouragement.
Enrollment
If you want to get involved, or to increase the basic income that you receive, enrollment is pretty straightforward:
Just send 1 STEEM to @steembasicincome. Include the name of a Steemian to sponsor in the transaction memo (preceded by @). You and the person you sponsor will each receive 1 unit in the program. You can sponsor any active Steemian, it does not have to be a current member.
If you're unclear, please check out our full transaction memo guidelines and then let us know if you have any questions.
https://steemit.com/busy/@steembasicincome/transaction-memo-guidelines
The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. If we choose to accept SBD without refunding it, you do not receive extra value for it. Enrollments are processed automatically every 144 minutes.
Questions about Steem Basic Income?
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just wanted to let you guys know that I am giving away SBI Units now at my #lovetheclouds contest :)
https://steempeak.com/lovetheclouds/@tobetada/welcome-to-the-love-the-clouds-contest-43-win-1-sbi-unit
Thank you for sharing! If you also share in the #contest channel of our discord, then we are more likely to notice your contest and include in our listings.
thanks for sharing SBI Contests ! :) @steembasicincome 💙 ♬
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곰돌이가 @bluengel님의 소중한 댓글에 시세변동을 감안하여 $0.017을 보팅해서 $0.023을 지켜드리고 가요. 곰돌이가 지금까지 총 6360번 $70.565을 보팅해서 $82.004을 구했습니다. @gomdory 곰도뤼~
Any update on the progress of the api correction in SBI? I still haven't got any SBI upvotes for my posts of the last three days.
Cheers!
There was an issue with node replay and it started again. We have resolved the replay issues and catch-up votes are going out now.
Only delivered rshares value is removed from your pending upvote balance, so even if some posts still get missed, the pending rshares will be delivered on future posts.
Hey guys, thanks for the mention of my tipping contest. Btw, will you be somehow compensating all those missing upvotes? I am holder of quite a lot of your shares but haven´t received any votes for 3 or 4 days now... Thanks.
No votes are technically 'missed' as your upvote balance should still be accruing so your next upvote should be worth what you are owed.
I could be wrong but I know my balance has been growing.
Ah, ok. Hopefully, you are right. I havent´t checked my balance. Still haven´t received any votes since the HF though...
No one has.
The bot was out into 'replay mode' which from what I understand is basically the code checking over the database to make sure everything is as it should be..
That took about 24 hours, so votes should have resumed earlier today..
However, for some reason, (and they are investigating) after it was done it decided to restart 'replay mode' all over again! Since stopping it would cause a fault and there is no way to speed it up, all we can do is wait and hope that they figured out how to prevent it from restarting all over again after this run.
You were right, the votes were kind of accumulating in the meantime. I got a really big one after that and it seems to be working normally again now. Thanks for your updates :)
Is the @steembasicincome bot voting yet?
Catch-up votes are going out now.
Only delivered rshares value is removed from your pending upvote balance, so even if some posts still get missed, the pending rshares will be delivered on future posts.
Every vote on my posts are valuable at this point, especially SBI it's not about missing vote value it's about missing that valuable vote on my posts.
But it's all good, I published one anyways and you voted it so yay.
Hi @steembasicincome!
Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation!
Your UA account score is currently 5.997 which ranks you at #322 across all Steem accounts.
Your rank has improved 4 places in the last three days (old rank 326).
In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 128 contributions, your post is ranked at #43.
Evaluation of your UA score:
Feel free to join our @steem-ua Discord server
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Hi @kharma.scribbles!
Structure of your total SBI vote value:
Did you know that your SBI level shows in your Steempeak wallet?
@steembasicincome I am delegating 4SP so shouldn't I receive 2 bonus units?
Fixed in DB; will show correctly after next round. Thank you for letting us know.
ARE YOU VOTING AGAIN? :O
We are running catch-up votes now, while continuing to monitor for any remaining bugs.
!sbi status
Hi @ketcom!
Structure of your total SBI vote value:
Did you know that your SBI level shows in your Steempeak wallet?
!sbi status
Hi @upvotebuilders!
Structure of your total SBI vote value:
Did you know that your SBI level shows in your Steempeak wallet?
This post has received a 3.13 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @sbi-booster.
This promoted content generated 0.072 STEEM in curation reward payback. Thanks for using Steemium.
Did somebody use Steemium to promote this? We haven't ever.
I love Basic Income concept... thanks for what you are doing, guys!
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Hi @xdo-no!
Structure of your total SBI vote value:
Did you know that your SBI level shows in your Steempeak wallet?
Greatings from @coinchek!
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