My feelings about the one week engagement challenge break

Introduction

Last 2 weeks, there was a little bit of mixed feelings and speculations for me, when I didn’t see the usual “engagement challenge” at the notice board of “disconnect”. I was wondering what had happened because this is my first time noticing such thing happening before.

I’ll be sharing with you a little of what was running through my mind back then but before doing that, let me invite some steemians @smyle, @eurogee and @drigweeu to participate in the contest.

How was steemit looking like without the engagement challenge?

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I’m not really an ardent fan of the engagement challenge because of the plenty competitors I’ve to contest with but let me not lie, I won’t say I didn’t notice it. At first I thought I was checking the wrong update from “disconnect” but I later realized I was at the right post.

That was weird, I’d to reload the site some few times to see if any changes will come up but nothing changed. I had to move to my usual everyday contest to go and hustle.

Here we’re now, back to steemit engagement challenge, time to find a way to attract curator 1 and 2 to pay some attention to our post.

Did you feel strange during the absence of the engagement challenge?

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Yeah, it was kinda odd not seeing the “engagement challenge” at the top of contest sections posted by @disconnect. So many things came to my mind that period. I was thinking the curators responsible for steemcurator1 and 2 had gone on vacation and they have forgotten about us over here but it’s well deserved because it’s not easy curating works of steemians.

The second thing that came to mind was that, I thought @disconnect and the organizers of some of the engagement challenge must have had a fight behind closed doors, so the team decided not to post anyone’s work until their issue was resolved. But I knew whatever it was, it would be resolved the previous week.

You can blame me though, concerning my thoughts.. I’ve seen whale wars on Steemit before, so anything is possible.

What's your hope and goal for this season 15 engagement challenge?

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• The few engagement challenge I’ve been part of, I noticed that communities with more relatable topics is the ones that have more engagement in their contest. It will be nice if other communities take cue from them to attract more engagement.

• I also noticed some communities are not part of the engagement challenge. I really don’t know the criteria for selecting the communities for the engagement challenge but one thing I know that if all those smaller communities are part of the engagement challenge, I can bet that their engagement will skyrocket and it will increase their visibility on the steemit platform.

• Most times, people will write so well but unfortunately, the recognition they try to get through rewards is not there. As much as everyone is fighting to get curated from steem curator 1 and 2, is impossible for them to reach out to all the good post. But it won’t be a bad idea if boom 1 and 2 encourage those ones that wrote excellently with a consolation upvote.

Tell us that community you want to be hosting engagement challenge every season and why?

I don’t really have a favorite community when it comes to this contest and engagement challenge. I mostly check out for the challenges that I can relate with very well. That way is easier for me to write down something.

I try as much as possible to participate in those engagement challenges that will start taking me to the internet to do series of research. I don’t have strength for all that.

But if I’m to give thumbs up, I’ll say I give it to @steem4nigeria because a lot of the challenges I’ve seen from them is something I can relate because I’m from Nigeria and it is something will see on a regular basis in the country.