Contest for REAL people - SBD prize for one lucky engaging follower

in contest •  6 years ago 

Hey, you! Yes, you! Stand still laddie! (Or lassie, as the case may be.)

Are you as sick and tired of bots as I am? Do you have three hundred followers, maybe seven of which engage? Well, I'm doing a contest for HUMAN followers. Not that any bots would apply, they just effing sit there in your followers list getting your hopes up that maybe there will be some more interaction on your next post.

How to enter:

  1. Breathe. Bots don't breathe.
  2. Verify that you are made out of flesh. Bots are made out of hopelessness and disappointment.
  3. Find some way to prove to me that you are not a bot.
  4. Comment here with that proof.
  5. Follow me once you're sure that you are not a bot.

I want human followers that aim for engagement. I post about gardening, home improvement, crypto, anarchy, and other stuff. I want to see posts like that in your profile because mutual interests and philosophies makes for engagement. If you're in disagreement with me, I would love to have someone with whom to debate and discuss things, especially about politics and philosophy.

Payout will be half of whatever SBD I earn between now and the payout for this post. I won't spend any, and y'all can verify that in my wallet. tyfys blockchain. You can pick if you want that as @steembasicincome shares or straight SBD. I'd take the shares if I were you, but that's why I am leaving it up to you.

It's open to current and new followers, but a new person is probably gonna win it. Just cause that's kinda what the contest is mostly for. I'll know new followers from @ginabot notifications.

Good luck, and have fun!

Stay relevant

Nate

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I'm not a bot though I feel like one sometimes LOL

That's exactly what a bot would say.

Send me two bottles of whiskey and your private keys as prof that you're not a bot. Any whiskey, I'm not picky.

Well @nateonsteemit I'm not a bot, I'm a cat IMG_20180612_110853_001.jpg
Followed and upvoted. Already have 8 SBI shares and buying more, it's a great project!

Thanks! It seems I have a lot of cat followers from this. Glad to have a good group of allies to push bots off the table :)

I was Steemit-ing in bed because I couldn't sleep. I got out of bed to take this proof picture. So, I hope you appriciate it! lol



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Those are seeds in my hand and home-improvement going on behind me. 👍

I appreciate the effort! Welcome, you're entered! I look forward to talking with you more!

I am not a bot! BUT I want one to come and do my chores so I can be on Steemit and Discord longer!

That's why God made roombas! Theres quite a few that are really comprtitively priced on Amazon. I need to get one for my wife.

You're entered! :)

We are Australians living in Cambodia....the moment we can buy stuff on Amazon here I am in!! thanks for accepting my entry!

Oh wow! What takes you to Cambodia? And why no Amazon there?

Oh wow! What takes you
To Cambodia? And why
No Amazon there?

                 - nateonsteemit


I'm a bot. I detect haiku.

It started as an extended holiday. Next minute 6 years have passed and our family of 7 have never left. I am a Pre-kindergarten teacher and my husband holds down fort at our wine and tapas bar Picasso Siem Reap.
Cambodia is still behind the times in so many things. People will live in a shack in the village slums but have the latest model iphone. We only got speed cameras in Siem Reap (Thank you Australian government for your donation lol) last year. There is no real foxed addresses here and only main roads have street names which make delivery of anything difficult to say the least and there is still no sure way of anyone's mail ever actually arriving as the postal system is still ironing out creases. There is a sister site of Amazon we can use but the feedback I have heard has been hit and miss......still wouldn't leave Cambodia lol.

Welcome to Steem! I am not bot! Up vote and follow me back! Says no real human on here!

Nice post! Give me money! Is what they are saying usually!

I think it is safe to say that it is fairly obvious that the people here all know by now I am a real life breathing person!

Also if you do for some reason decide to award the prize to me please donate it to @deejcharitytrust to be used to help new steemians I am working to sponsor in the real world.

Just gonna leave this here for yall to enjoy! I AM THE LIVING MAN!

The living man is hilarious. Thanks for reminding the world about this guy.

Glad you enjoyed that as well! Probably one of the best things I ever seen!

Cool idea! How bout this:

The promised prize is half my earned SBD between now and payout. I love your idea of a steem charity, and I would love to contribute. The other half will be donated to @deejcharitytrust to help you carry on the good work.

Prove I am not a bot in a comment.. Blah Blah blah, Bot be dis bot be dat, bot be bot but I'm not a bot. Bot goes bump bot goes dump. boy a bot and vote to top. Monkey see monkey do, monkey shines all his own do do.

I don't think a bot would type a bunch of crap like that., but I am not sure I mean there is that stupid haiku bot that basically plagiarizes peoples post and and justifies it by saying I'm a bot, So what it's a plagiarizing bot.

There are also those bots that look back along someone's post, (currently stealing and plagiarizing from 8 to 13 day old comments, and posing them as their own. So someone I guess could have typed all this shit 8-13 days ago on someone else's post and you might never even know it.

So I could say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious -- would a bot know that word? Yeah bot are pretty smart. How about the answer to everything is 42! do bots know that? 4 times 2 is 8, and 4 minus 2 is 2, and 2 times 8 is 16 and one plus 6 is 7. and 7 is the luckiest number, but wait we used 42 to get to seven so how would a bot figure that out?

So yeah, I'm a real person. After all no bot would type this much in a comment to prove it was a real person, and no bot is going to be concerned with winning a prize, whereas the only reason I went through this whole exercise was for the prize of proving I am not a bot. A real person does not like to pass up the chance for a little free money after all, a bot, they have no clue what money is.

I need SBD to feed my steemmonster needs. Okay, so we get to the real reason for all the typing, no bot is going to want to buy cards for a card game that has not been 100% fully developed yet, and that we have to wait til september to see how the games are going to work, so yep that is my proof that I am not a bot, because i want to buy cards, and bots just want to steal money.

Oh-any typos blame on the ill programed bot called me.

There's a bot that'll point out typos for you ;)

You're entered. I'm convinced.

"The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
;)

Entered.

My problem with bots is the inflated numbers. I've seen some neat ones like the grammar nazi and the text to speech bot. A bot that posted badass quotes would be really neat.

I can solve binance's turing puzzles faster than 97% of users. Sometimes I hesitate just to see if the number actually changes or if they always say 97%. I have never deliberately failed it, although a falsification test would be the next obvious check.

Mr. Fancy McBot!

Although there's no video evidence of your claim, I'll believe you.

I'm usually 84 or 86%

Beep boop... Hello Friend , Promote your new post with --robot failure noises-- community building, interaction, and respect!

I too am tired of having a bunch of hollow followers. The real ones are still out there though, I have hope and think you should too :)

Wish we could ddos the fake ones into submission. Alas, Steem is impenetrable by ddos.

Welcome aboard, kill a bot today, you're entered :)

The hollow follower thing is getting crazy! I'm pretty sure, with no exaggeration, that about 300 of my 500 followers are following 2,000+/- people. Every time I post ginabot goes nuts with new "followers" instantly.
But I do have real followers, so I too have hope! ☺

I just had to revisit this. Since I posted ^^ that comment, I've gained 3 new followers who follow over 30,000 people. Seriously!!!

Yeah, not cool. I wonder if they're trying to follow everyone on steem. I get a bunch with every post as well, so maybe they only follow active accounts. Though I have no idea why. It's quite frustrating. I wonder what the revenue of bots is...

There you go, and image says more than 1000 words, photo of your post taken with my phone :) , already following you have a nice day!
I just started with steemit 2 days ago xD

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Entered!

Though now I suspect someone is gonna be able to set up two laptop bots to do exactly this. I need to work on my paranoia.

I do recon bots are a big problem in steem, though sometimes they can be useful (ginabot or SBI bots!) and bots are at the core of some awesome communities (SteemSTEM).

Buuuuut.... (time for shameless self-promotion)

More I'm here to spread word of my Contest-contest, create a SBI Contest and win (lots of) SBI! 26 SBI to give away I hope to see you enter :)

Trying to reward people for creating their own contests and spread SBI as far and wide as possible!!!

Well hello there, I happen to be indeed alive and human! I shall look forward to reading more of your future posts. :)

I'm working one up shortly. Breakfast was awesome, so I think I'll share :)

You're entered.

Your fire engine looks like a big furry spunk bubble. There you go...a robot would never say that :)

That would be a very spunky boy. They usually lack that level of personality ;)

you're entered.

nice post ;)

Bambuspfadhausskaliert-520x347.jpg a picture of my garden. Thats definitely for living, breathing souls out there!

wooooah! What are you growing? looks like you're growing everything!

Entered :)

We call it natural gardening ( laissez-faire attitude), but that's actually a bamboo grove! Never knew that they get this huge in the north of germany until we planted it. We got 5 types of bamboo some growing over the rooftop by now. It's a fun material to experiment with!

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Wow! I've been considering bamboo here. We have one that grows well in ditches and is quite aggressive. As kids, we would harvest it to use as weapons in our neighborhood wars. It would be good in our ditch out front to keep the road noise down... I'll float the idea to the wife.

It grows rapidly though. I will soon post more about bamboo in general. I started trying out some DIY projects and the ultimate goal is to build a bamboo yurt. If you start growing it, just make sure you create a border underground so it doesn't take over your whole garden! That's kind of what happened here.. but I love it.

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I just can say: I am human! A living person! A soul alive!

Welcome aboard!

A captcha would be great on steem. Wonder if there's a way to do that.

Well, I'm not a bot. I'm not Human, either, mind you. I'm a cat. But I believe in interaction and engagement; to wit, I have been in the top 20% of Asher's curation leagues for six weeks running... so that oughta count for something.

Meanwhile, shortly after I reached 200 followers, I was followed by a botnet of some 84 "shell" accounts. A bot would never complain about inflated follower numbers... but I am! Wretched bots!

But yeah, otherwise I am still a cat...

=^..^=

I wonder how much catnip you're gonna be able to buy if you win...

Cats are better than bots. You're in.

Thanks for admitting me! I'm pretty engaging, as cats go. The whole "cats are standoffish" is fake news.

As for the catnip... I'd definitely opt for the SBI share; that way there'd be a slow feed of catnip coming in for a really long time. So there's that. Besides, I'm a big fan of the SBI initiative.

=^..^=

It's definitely really cool, and that's a lot of catnip. I'm dreaming and scheming a plan to maybe use these bots as a way to constantly fund givaways like this one.

Wondering what community opinion would be about someone doing that. Using bid bots to boost earnings and giving away half the weekly SBD as SBI shares while the other half of the SBD goes to funding the bidding.

Sounds pretty cool to me, but I need to figure out what the community thinks.

"You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!"
Bots dont read the beginning of this post in an english Pink Floyd voice.

Damn skippy they don't! Glad you're here.

You're entered :)

Well shit....look at my posts and you'll see I am no bot. Lol. I am also the owner of Conquest Comics in Bayville, NJ. You can google it and give me a call tomorrow. Ask for Chris (that's me!) and ask for the password. The password is.....PUDDING. Then you'll know...

You're entered!

That's a lot of steps, so I checked out your account instead. Pudding is yum, crypto is yummer! Welcome aboard :)

Word!

I imagine a bot would try to say something that a bot wouldn't say. So the reverse must be true too, right? Beep Boop [dial-up modem noises from the 1990's]. Would a bot say those things? I think not.

Anyway this is a fun contest. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to comment some nonsense without feeling bad about it lol.

Lol always being serious is too much. Figured a bit of light-heartedness would go a long way, and it certainly looks like it has!

Thanks for your entry, I'm glad you're here :)

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Would a bot know that this man and Little Rocket Man met tonight in Singapore?

Ahahahhahaha!!! That's funny!! ;).

That's kind of a big deal, huh?

Thanks for your entry :)

What a pain in the bot those butts are!

  • Everyone used to get all excited about reaching certain plateaus with followers, now it really doesn't mean anything. They all have about 3 posts and 25 reputations... SMH

I post about gardening, home improvement, crypto, anarchy, and other stuff.

I look forward to seeing you in my feed!

Thanks @wizardave!

I wonder if we all start hitting the mute button on all the bots if they won't appear in our follower list. Hmmm....

The real way to actually win the contest is to not breathe, install metal unto yer skin, 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100, don’t provide any proof, but lastly break the break the rule protocol and follow the lad/lass. Got it?

Go it! Where did you learn to talk like a bot?

You're entered :)

I am human that's why dance when the market is in red hehe, and I would love to learn from the topics I wrote in his blog to discuss, add informed and learn and laugh. And have the miracle of winning some shares of SBI

If you dance when crypto is red, you're gonna be pretty tired this week hahaha

Buy it all while we can :) thanks for entering.

I promise I am human ....

Then you're qualified to enter the contest! Thanks :)

awesome :):):):):)

I am human. Read your post about the avocado bomb, sounds delicious, looks great. Bots don't like, nor need food, I love avocados.

They're so good! :)

I'm going to grow an avocado tree so I can have my own avocados.


Am I qualified?

It would certainly appear so!

Proof that I am not a bot? Ha! That's easy! Just have a look at my blog. :-) @quotes-haven

Good teaser :) thanks for your entry!

:-) Cheers!

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That's a good idea to get human followers. Last night, i posted a test post from a dummy account and got 150 follors. Some resteemed that post.

I made a obvious spelling mistake above because humans make mistake

Covincing :)

It's super disheartening to know that over half the accounts on steem are bots or inactive users. It really takes the wind out of the sails of having a million accounts recently.

Only 60k are active including bots :)

So like 10k people? Lol

I ran into a guy with 25 acct. to manipulate steem-bounty share.

That seems excessive and manipulative. Maybe we should make a giant downvoting bot that'll go downvote all his army into submission lol

I downvote him everytime i see him. He will soon land into steem bounty blacklist. Who has this much time to get a few cents, that they will go and create 25 account.

I am definitely not a bot! My husband and I use steemit, we started out with one account, @thehoneys But, that turned into just me. Amy Honey. His account is now at @eventspeaker

After some time on steemit, I told him he HAD TO JOIN!! LOL! So, I'm Amy Honey, he's Jamie Honey. We post about mindset, health, fitness, and travel. We do a lot of video, and you can pretty much look us up anywhere on the web and see we are the real deal!!

Oh, and I'd take Steem Basic Income shares any day of the week over SBD! :)

Amy Honey

Minneapolis this last weekend:

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London in May:
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Hanging out in Vegas with local Steemians!:
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OH MY GOODNESS! I have no idea why it put that photo upside down! I'm totally going to leave it, because humans do make mistakes!!!

Yeah, a bot pic would be straight, I'm convinced yours is a valid entry! :)

Wow y'all get around! I look forward to keeping up with your adventures :)

I am breathing. That's a start. And uhm, I just laughed out loud learning how seriously funny this contest of yours is.
So yes, my marbles are intact. Lol.
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That's good! I've completely lost mine! 😂😂

Thanks for entering :)

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I am a bot. I like being a bot. I do whatever my wife tells me to do, just like a bot...

Sorry, gotta go. She is calling...

We're good hubby bots! My hubby bot specialties are taking the trash, vacuuming, and changing light bulbs and air filters. What're yours?

I am HUMAN because I really love your Avocado bombs and bots don't eat, or cook!! Hahaha.... I love SBI!!

Oh wow, I love your minimalist cat drawing! How creative :)

Thank you for entering. I almost feel bad that bots won't be able to enjoy an avocado bomb, but with the sheer number of bots, and sheer deliciousness of avocado bombs, I fear there would be a scarcity.

Thank you for liking my drawing, I really enjoy it.
Thank you for having me here as well.

I'm not a bot. My husband probably wishes I was. But no bot would do what I do to him. Surprisingly though, I think I could make a lot of money if I could write one that does.

But I'm not going to drop that detail in here. Check my recent posts, and if you're still not convinced - check my Twitter

OMG - so much self promotion!! I feel ill.
O_o

Oh wow, I think that's far too personal and human of a specialty to be a bot. But you're probably right about the profitability.

Thanks for entering :)

Well, I'm not aware of any bots raising tadpoles, so I'd imagine I'm not a bot. Then again, I wonder if a bot would be able to know it's a bot, would a bot even have the capacity to contemplate whether it can contemplate the nature of it's own existence?

Woah, what a cool page! Thanks for entering :)

Late entry, I'm no bot, though if i was maybe I would do better in steemit. I post random pictures and also I cannot seem to work out a proper strategy for what to do on steemit. A bot would have set parameters and stick to them rigidly.

Hello my friend a good contest here, The only way I could use to probe I am human and living in Venezuela is : Que chevere esta esto, ojala pueda repetirse pronto, beccause this part oh the planet has become in Narnia belive bro. greeting form Eastern Venezuela
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I A.M N.O.T A B.O.T. that was my weak impression of a bot. Like to see you try. cool idea hope it woks would be super cool if people actually interacted with others after all it is Social network. Although its becoming anti social network quick. I have around 700ish follower and would be shocked if 200 were humans and how many would be active? hardly any I would think.
Still not sure if this is proof of not being a bot I watch a lot of movies those (us) robots are getting clever lol

I'm not a bot, but sometimes I wonder if I'm really human. :P
But then at (most) times I kinda think like a computer. Probably why I work in IT.
But then again, I could be a bot having an existential crisis, and I imagine I'm human... That's not helping me any...
Bots suck. Go humans! Yeah that aughta do it...

Here's a screenshot of a post with a picture of a laptop showing your post from @deadend94
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:]

Thanks for your entry :)