Hey guys! This is the 5th giveaway and during the last 4, no one has won yet. I realised that the chance of any specific person winning is about 0.2% which is really quite discouraging so starting from this week and onwards, I'll be giving more Steem away to people I feel are deserving! Read below for more details.
What's this contest for?
This contest is mainly for two reasons, for me to gain some more followers and for minnows to have more motivation. The first reason is quite obvious so let me explain my second point.
To be a valid entry, you must be "active". This means that you must have posted or commented a total of 5 times in the last week. This is not a hard ask for someone who is actually active, it's less than one per day! Furthermore, you must NOT be a bot or spammer, which I will decide based on my personal discretion.
This aims to help community engagement by promoting being active. Furthermore, it also aims to help keep minnows active who may be lacking financial incentive as they're getting very low post rewards.
Steem VS SBI Shares
You now have the option to either accept your reward in Steem or an equivalent in Steem Basic Income Shares! Since SBI buys you and me a share, I'll sponsor the winners two times their Steem prize to make it equivalent! Learn more about SBI here
Basically, if you win 5 Steem, you can choose to accept 5 Steem OR 10 Steem Basic Income Shares (worth 5 Steem)!
Basically, one is long term while the other is short term.
Last week the prizes looked like this
- 0-100 new followers: 2 Steem + jackpot split between 1 person
- 101-200 new followers: 3 Steem + jackpot split between 2 people
- 201-350 new followers: 5 Steem + jackpot split between 3 people
- 351-500 new followers: 10 Steem + jackpot split between 5 people
- For each post over $100 payout - paid upvotes from bots, I will put an extra 5 Steem in the prize!
Therefore, this week's prize will be 14 Steem split between 2 people!
Choosing the winner
The following numbers were chosen:
Alphabetically, they correspond to: @cryptodiva27 and @kado013
They are both inactive and therefore we have no winners again.
New Ways to Win
It's been rather dissatisfying not giving away any Steem 5 weeks in a row, so I would like to donate 1 Steem to a friend of mine who lives in Venezuela and has suffered from the economic disaster they're encountering, @reinaldoverdu
I know there are many others who are in need of money, but for now I don't have enough time to scout others out. After exams, I'll try to find more people who need as much as they can get as they're suffering through economic depressions or just had a rough time lately. Check back in later weeks for more details!!
This week the prizes look like this
- 0-100 new followers: 2 Steem + jackpot split between 1 person
- 101-200 new followers: 3 Steem + jackpot split between 2 people
- 201-350 new followers: 5 Steem + jackpot split between 3 people
- 351-500 new followers: 10 Steem + jackpot split between 5 people
- For each post over $100 payout - paid upvotes from bots, I will put an extra 5 Steem in the prize
Some stats
- Giveaway Number: 5
- Followers at the start of week: 1475
- Current followers: 1475
- Current Prize: 2 Steem + jackpot between 1 person
- Jackpot: 13 Steem
- Total Prize given out: 1 Steem
Some Thoughts
The last 5 weeks worth of people who were randomly chosen to win this competition have ALL been inactive. It really gets me thinking how many people out of the 1475 followers are actually active. It does make sense the majority are inactive though. If 10% of people who see my content comment, and the posts I don't promote with bid bots get around 3-4 comments, only 30-40 of my followers are active. Therefore, statistically only 1 for every 32 people are active. At this rate it's gonna take us 16 weeks before the prize is finally given out to one person! This is why I will be donating 1-2 Steem per week if there are no winners!!
First of all thank you very much friend, the truth is that this is a help for me, the crisis is increasing and I really am going through very badly. me and the 99 of venezuela people. I think your initiative is very good, positive and that will help a lot to all people. I participate above all because I consider you my friend, and because I want some day to have enough sp to be able to help people. I am very happy to receive your support, you are a great person. and I will always be here supporting you bro.
I also think that it is difficult to find active people, who really care about the content you publish, but I think that little by little they are joining more, you can accelerate the process if in publications like these you use bots to position yourself - only in this type of publications-, maybe it's a good idea that you should consider, although I already know what you think about it because you have commented on other posts.
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No worries! I'm happy to help :)
I try my best to help as many people as I can, but I simply don't have enough time right now to help everyone I want to, and myself.
I need to study for my exams but after my exams I want to run more initiatives to help those in need, especially people in your country who have been affected adversely by the economic downfall.
All the best to you! :)
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Yes I understand you, the same thing happens to me, many times I want to read and support many good posts, but between having to work, taking care of homework - I live alone and I have to clean, wash, cook, pay bills, buy food and everything else- I just hope we can have time to talk and be in contact. and for sure I will be very active with the initiatives you propose for the people of my country, I pray for you to intervene, put a firm hand and help us to get out of these bad times we are living. and I appreciate all the support you give me. I always find it nice to exchange comments with you pal.
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I am very active
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Me too! It's a shame that only inactive people come to chance. :-(
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Wow, Finally i will be giving this my own trial. This is so kind of you and please ensure you study hard. I will be waiting for you to finish your exams, no matter how long it will take.
And lastly also, i want to plead with you to also add Nigeria to those you will be giving out help to as the economy and government of the day is nothing to write about.
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I am active
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I think I'm active? (just checking pulse) yep live and kicking. good luck to me lol
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Hi @cryptoeater, I have a suggestion for future contests. I realize there are a lot of frustrated people who give up on Steemit, so all of us have "dead" followers. I checked SteemSpectacles, and you have 240 "dead" followers who haven't posted in a month. Both of your winners today were on the dead list. What if you took your 240 dead followers off your list and numbered the remaining followers? If those on the "living" list are not active enough, you could just draw again. Just a suggestion, here is the link. http://www.steemspectacles.com/@cryptoeater/followers
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Good to know, having new ways to earn some..Heheh...
You cab leave me the gift, if you can't find anyone to. Lol
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Hey @cryptoeater, this is a great thing you're doing and the steemit community thanks you for it. I didn't actually see instructions on how to enter but I upvoted and resteemed you. I am very close to Venezuela (Trinidad) and there is a huge influx of their people coming here to escape their own country :/ best wishes @reinaldoverdu
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Hi @crystalhuman. the situation in Venezuela, as I told to @cryptoeater there are people looking for food in the trash because the monthly income they have for salary is enough to buy 1 chicken. Yes, as you read it, with the salary of 1 month we can only buy 1 chicken, and with that we spend the salary of a whole month, it's crazy. For that reason who can be fleeing from Venezuela. I ask you and all the people of steemit to have the opportunity to help any Venezuelan who does. We are going hungry, there is no food and the prices of things are absurd. Thank you very much for your wishes, I also hope that you have great success in Steemit and that you can help many of my Venezuelan compatriots, because we need it.
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Well I don't know how they arrive lol and I'm not a native here myself so I couldn't offer too much information. However, I hope you are at least able to have a safe place and some food. I know what it's like to not have those things.
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Yes @crystalhuman, it is very hard, I have had very hard times, sometimes only having 1 cup of rice to eat during a whole week. people build rafts of wood and throw themselves into the sea, as in Cuba, to escape this disaster. and for now I'm sure, but I'm struggling to survive.
I live in an apartment, I do not have family, wife or children, so for me, survival is a hahaha movie. I hope that with the support worldwide we can get out of this.
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Good to know, having new ways to earn some..Heheh...
You cab leave me the gift, if you can't find anyone to. Lol
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It really does suck that those lucky draws are unable to receive their prizes but what's agonizing is the fact that such a great community is just being forgotten . Users are in-active (myself included) when infact we should be posting and being more active on this than anything else .
A great incentive totally love that u are donating the steem instead to those in need . May God bless you
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People come here for money, once they see that you have to work and steemit isn’t a get rich quick scheme they quit. Unfortunately that seems to be a big chuck of people’s followers.
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It's good that you help your friends, you're going to be great!
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very active... guess you looking in the wrong places hehe
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I noticed something when I post, whenever we make a new post, suddenly we got followers immediately, sometimes around 5-10 followers below 10 seconds after we post, so maybe all of them are bots?
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Hi.. I am very active 😊
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Most likely you will get at least 150+ new followers per week. Perhaps you could have many more of you increase your number of posts. But even if this new phenomena continues, all the followers you get from it are totally worthless
https://steemit.com/scam/@crypto-econom1st/investigation-of-bot-trails-with-huge-number-of-new-followers
Normally you can use this website to see your active number of followers, but it doesn't seem to work anymore
http://www.steemspectacles.com/oops;line=76343;column=29;sourceURL=http:%2F%2Fwww.steemspectacles.com%2Fvendor.bundle.js;__zone_symbol__currentTask=%5Bobject%20Object%5D
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