First off let me say thank you to everyone that participated.

10 SBD Sayings Contest Update

I'm grateful to everyone for supporting this contest. There were sayings from many countries and many that I hadn't heard before. To me the contest was an amazing success. The feedback has been very positive which makes me want to do this more. I'm going to be working on a new contest to be released shortly so be on the look out.

I'll announce the winners in a follow-up post after processing all entries and picking the winners.

These entries are the ones I'll be picking from:

awhsarada, cgrave, chinex, ckadie1324, cryptonnn, dailycat, dante01, davemccoy, davidjossy, deepsky, djoi, dotapamore, dr4mohamed, dutchtravelers, dwijol, ejgd93, evilrabbi, marlon241982 masshomic1de, masterpiz, matbaker, mermaidvampire, mikefromtheuk, money-dreamer, mstaxidrvr, muhazi, murad06, musesmillions, nenennikka, nikkysamz novi, nuel17, ossom, proman999, pukhtoon, ratin88, raza786, rcebike, re-blog, redlambo, refresh, reginecruz, rindaman1234, risky33, rovel1996, royalz, sakura1012, vdux, woland76, xerox-bru, xhunxhiss, you-decide, zeberster, zeroooc, zzdenis

So shout out to everyone one on the list.

Some entries missed one or more rules so unfortunately, I had to exclude incomplete entries for fairness. The three rules were followed, resteem, and comment so had to do all 3 to be on the list.

It is possible I could have made mistakes if I did I'm sorry it was not intentional. Any replies I missed was an oversite. If you don't see your name and you followed all rules reply to this post asap, and I'll update the list.

Contest Process

The names of commenters I got directly from the contest page and applied filters to get just names. I got the list of resteems and followers from steemdb.com. I then pulled the lists into Microsoft Excel and used a matching formula for both rules set, and those names on both lists (did resteem and became a follower) are on the above list.

Hopefully, everyone is cool with the results and process (open to feedback leave in comments).

If you want to contact me directly, you can email me at [email protected].

Below is my method which is fair to the best of my knowledge (I'm open to better ways if people have feedback).

Also, I'm in the process of taking all the entries and making a summary of the sayings. I'll send the winner announcement out as soon it's ready.

Simple python script to pick the winners.


import random

fname = "sayings_users.txt";
stuser_list = [];

with open(fname) as f:
stuser_list = f.read().splitlines();

print(random.choice(stuser_list));

After I have the first name, I remove that name from the file. Run again get 2nd name remove 2nd from the file. One more time for 3rd place. I'll improve over time :). But it should be fair for now.

Look for the result document, and winners in a follow-up post later today/tomorrow.