A Contest about Contests about a Show about Shows and Follow me Back and Upvote!

in life •  7 years ago 

As I am sure you all have noticed Steemit has become Contest and Games central! Also notice all the back scratching that is happening and much due out of necessity in some cases. I log on and the inevitable rush of messages from people I don't know flood in asking for money, what 30 new contests or games just dropped or in some cases people yelling that their posts made no money and have no clue who they are. Now many value unique blogs and content but are feeling that some of the art and "blogging" that made Steemit great is being sandwiched in between "Free shitcoins for this or Win SBD's for the best Ass!"

Now some Contests are very well executed and promote the overall creativity and community vibe on parts of steemit, others are so complicated and jumping through hoops like a poodle it seems like we are the Circus and Bread for figuring out whose ass to kiss for this week. Loyalty goes a long way imho, not hopping around for easy money (no such thing long-term, everything has a price...)
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The Click Banners being added to other peoples content in Comments
Please Don't, I propose next time someone says "cool" under comments then plasters their own huge banner for money and advertising themselves just make it go poooof! Many of us speak about the future path(s) everything will take. Is it going to be non-stop pimping of everyone trying to make a buck (nothing wrong with that just a bit of finesse can go a long way versus a message with 5 posts saying "U VOTE ME", and nothing else.

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Gandalf, Google Images

Till Next Time Please Repost, Upvote, Follow and the 20th Upvote and Comment wins One SBD ! (seriously, free money, One SBD) ;)
xoxo,
B.A.
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You shall not pass. Just kidding. I love Lord of the Rings. Yeah. A game of a game from a friend of a friend of a guy of a brother of an uncle and so on. Life can be fun still. I love adventure. I love competition. Thanks for sharing. Upvoted. Resteemed.

Your posts are so real. So glad I have had the opportunity to connect with you, a fellow, strong, independent, smart and sassy assertive woman! :D

ditto sista! a lot of bullshit that floats around, or sinks or whatever

Pixel Art Weekly it's on its 7th week now!
I do hate a bunch of these contests though, some of them have no value at all

Hey all I'm saying is if we're going to have a circle jerk, let's at least commit to a good reach around! None of that B.S. double dutch rudder crap.

just read this, classssic

:)

I love Steemit = awesome!

Can you stop hating my contest!

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Could you please link to that best ass contest? I would most certainly win that one. 🍑

I'm sure it's just Team Peru showing off their donkeys. (Sorry Team Peru if this statement makes me look like an ass, if it does, please add me to your contest😆)

I'm doing a contest at the moment but I dont have much put aside for a prize. Its 10 sbd for the best comment and 5 for the comment with the most upvotes. I never liked contests but I'll admit they are quite fun because some people get very motivated and it shows through the effort they make to win! Nice post. Followed.

It sure has changed in just the two months I've been here. Is it better or worse? Maybe I just know more now. The big shots are jackin each other off and looting the whole damn pie. Not all but many are. I think it sucks to see so many minnows making only a penny or less per post. The ones taking advantage should be ashamed of themselves.

There's a couple of good contests, @ats-david has his NASCAR & Golf contests which you actually have to win... as opposed to most of the phony meme contests where the creator keeps the proceeds or uses it as a way to enrich his buddies.

As far as the "follow me" commenters- I'm flagging them!

@ats-david actually gives a shit about good content and has the cajones to call out issues and I respect that :)

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Yup! He's one of the good guys!!! He's one of the first people I started following... a great photographer too! Followed

As a third place finisher in a poetry contest😉 I get it, so many of these contests rely on resteeming, up voting, deep throating, following... I wanted to enter your contest, not be your meal ticket.

I've called people out on their giphy comment, great post (rabbits kissing) posted 30 times in less then an hour, either a speed reader or someone walking a straight line through new posts. When I called them on it they sent a Gif of Jennifer Lawrence flipping the bird, to all of my active posts :)

The worst contest I saw here was a guess how many jelly beans were in the jar. Didn't know Steemit had a marching band in need of new uniforms; That and the thousand dollar flasher🙆🏽😕

I'll up vote after the other 19 do 😂

22 😟😝

Laura Lemons is 20

wait no comment on hers, it was upvote and comment, you may get it because you were the 20th and left comments
It shifted fast but you got it! ONE SBD

Lmao 😂 Does this mean I have to repost as well? To late for disqualifiers money is in the account💵👍🏽🎉😆

Haha ,I like the way how you wrote it . 🙂

I kinda like the contests.... i wont lie.... some of them are actually fun, like the ones with puzzles

the people saying "hey bro, follow 4 follow" has gotten old super quick though...

I started similar type of contest ant guess what my contest failed .....lol

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Yeah, the contests thing is getting out of hand and pretty much geared toward gaining more followers and comments. However, there is a genuine competition on here called #openmic and it is snowballing and performers are doing very nicely! Upvoted and resteemed and following... lol

This contest garbage has a very Facebook feel to it... Yuck.

while I'm at it going to top it off with something that really has been/was a trend that was making some THOUSANDS, am upvoting myself for a whopping 34 cents! I'll make sure to do a post on the Gumball flavor I win with that! Maybe make a contest on a jar of gumballs and guess how many? lol

It's been done:/

I just scroll on past them...

Does anyone care that I have a circlejerking contest currently running? It ends in about 22 hours!

And then I'll run another one after that! :)
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