What is the Deadpost Intitiative?

The Deadpost Initiative is an attempt to give love to some posts that were overlookeed 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

What an intense week. I apologize that I wasn't able to upvote all the comments with deadpost links, as I totally drained my voting power down to less than 35%. I promise that when my vote is worth more than the $0.10 cents its worth now I will not make the same mistake!

I was also left with a dilema with regards to this contest. Should I let everyone be winners, or should I give slightly bigger prizes? Of course I want everyone to be a winner and all the posts were worthy of some win, but I felt bad holding a contest with only $2-5 for each prize before and wanted to raise each reward a bit. Either way, everyone was a winner at steemit this week :-)

Last Week's Winners

@nyarlathotep - $8 STEEM prize

@nyarlathotep provides us with a piece examining whether or not authors (in this case fantasy authors) and their personal prejudices and flaws should influence how their works are presented in present day. This was a pretty popular one and it was well written.

Politically INCORRECT fantasy authors - Is it so bad?

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@omstavan - $8 STEEM prize

This one went totally over my head but it was truly impressive. @omstavan teaches us a bit about cryptology and sending messages that others can't understand. I will have to reread this a few times I think! Very informative article, and especially important to all of us who are getting involved in cryptocurrency.

Diffie-Hellman key exchange a.k.a How to shout a secret message to a stranger in public and understand each other such that nobody else has a clue?

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@zincali - $8 STEEM prize

@zincali gave us a very heartfilled and romantic poem that I'm assuming is directed at a love one. I really like the phrase he used "the first octave of joy" and "enchanted bliss"

Beloved

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@ats-david - My witness vote

@ats-david aims to tell us a story of how he set his rental car on fire (look at the title, I'm not spoiling anything), but in the process gives us a glimpse into the atmosphere of Costa Rica, which sounds both enticingly beautiful and at times hectic. Make sure to read part 2 linked at the end of part 1.

He asked not to be a winner but I thought I should mention him because no only was this post very fun to read, he's also a witness and from what I've seen so far, a responsible one who is interested in the opinions of the community. So go check him out and if you like him go vote for him as one of your witnesses.

How to Set Your Rental Car on Fire - The Prologue

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Week 11

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 SBD
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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