What is the Deadpost Intitiative?

The Deadpost Initiative is an attempt to give love to some posts that were overlooked during their short 7 day life span, a chance to bring your old posts back to life and maybe make some friends in the process. The goal is not only to share some love with SBD but also by engagement to generate discussion.

Last week

This week was truly a nightmare to judge. There were just too many posts deserving of steem...I had a hard time keeping track of them all. I realized that I need to start work on the Deadposts earlier in the week as wellbecause there is just too much to go through and I don't want to be half assed about it.

The engagement was incredible!!! I hope you are making friends with each other and finding users you would like to follow more closely. Please do not be discouraged if you did not win anything. It may have been because you posted too late in the week or it may have been because you didn't write anything to draw readers in. I feel guilty not rewarding every single entry this week.

Luckily @macchiata and @fishyculture came to save the day and lend me a hand with the rewards, otherwise I would have came out with a pretty heavy loss. These guys are minnows too and they're going out of their way to keep this initiative strong so go check out their work and show some respect! They deserve it!

As usual engagement was the biggest factor on whether or not a post won. I also looked at the amount of upvotes, the quality of the post and how undervalued it was (a $0.00 post may have a better shot than a $3.00 post) etc.

Last Week's Winners

@crystalize - $ 2.5 STEEM prize

This week marks our first win for handmades! Here @crystalize shows us the process of making her beautiful beaded lamps. The comments were insane, this was so popular and rightfully so! I can't believe the variety of talent we find at steemit, and underpaid talent at that.

Completed Project : Handmade Beaded Lamps!

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@celestal - $ 2.5 STEEM prize

@celestal shows shares us the story of an ex-convict and his experience in and out of jail. I find this topic fascinating as we tend to think criminals are so very different from regular people. I enjoy any attempt to show them as humans because they are, even the worst of them. The comments were just as fascinating. Great Deadpost!

Lecture from a REAL PRISONER - My Civil Service #9

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@irastra - $ 2.5 STEEM prize

Here's a topic we don't hear about in the news, but if you like to search the far corners of the internet, you may be pretty familiar with it. Geoengineering and it's effects on the environment. Awesome Deadpost.

Geoengineering Series #2 - Weather Modification Jobs

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@abyni - $ 2.5 STEEM prize

@abyni is the first to win a prize for a deadpost song. She plays a mean ukelele so check it out.

Steemit Open Mic Week 62: Budapest Ukulele Cover

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@creationofcare - $ 2 STEEM prize

I wasn't going to award this post because it didn't receive any comments but when I saw it I thought ”Why the hell not!!!!" You guys messed up by not commenting and voting on this one, what an amazing piece of art! Hint: post earlier in the week.

Completion of I:The Magician Medicine Bag

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Week 15

Share your best Deadpost in the comments!

The best posts will be rewarded with half of the payout from this post (or a minimum of $10 SBD or STEEM, split between winners) and will be featured in a future post.

Rules

•Please only submit 1 post.
•Posts must have a payout of less than $5.
•Posts must be at least one month old.
•I recommend you don't enter the same post twice in the same month if you didn't win the first time.
•Vote for 1-3 post by others. Please share WHY you liked their posts. If you don't vote for someone else's post by commenting you will not be eligible to win.
•Winners will be chosen based on how original, creative, informative and well written their posts are, as well as how well received they are in the comments. I will use the quality of comments as the main factor in judging who wins.
•There will be a slight bias towards smaller accounts but large accounts are welcome to join and compete or join just for fun and to share their old work.
•There may also be prizes for stellar comments and engagement.
•There will be 2 or more winners depending on how big the payout for this post is and depending on how many quality posts are entered into the contest.

• Please upvote generously on your favorite post in the comments below, we'd like to generate a sense much support as possible for all participants and the prize pool is still growing.

Upvote and resteem to help us raise our reward pool! And remember to comment and upvote on comments in this post please to show support for deadposts! :-)

The prize pool will be half of the post payout or at least $10
I'm still looking for SP delegation to offer some payout on all submissions. If you can help, please let me know :-)

This is not merely a contest, this is an opportunity to have your material read and an opportunity for us to really discuss each other's posts.

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