Hello all my friends and followers! Over the last couple weeks I have gained quite a few new followers, and I have been thrilled to meet and talk with so many new people! We really have a special platform here, and I have so many examples of that in my memories and on my feed; if you are new here, you don't just have to take my word for it, let's make some new ones now!
Doing creative, fun things that otherwise would be outside of our comfort zones, collaborating and competing, sharing and caring, building and creating, all these are things that I love about the community that I have met around steem. It seems that every new tag that I dive into, I am finding communities budding, developing, collaborating, enjoying, sharing and loving what they are doing. There are so many more initiatives now that before, it just keeps getting better and wider!
Now, throughout my Steem journey, I have been helped and supported by so many great users, and in fact still to this day I try to make it back around to friends that I met from earlier days on this platform. I also try to give back, I try to 'pay it forward' to my current followers and friends, as well as newer users who are just trying to get integrated here.
I like to reward the best, most thoughtful, funniest, most caring, most adjective comments that I receive on my posts! I haven't really advertised it, but if you read carefully all of my posts, you will notice that I do mention it occasionally. This time I went back more than 2 months of posts, all the way back to the results of my homestead caption contest, and found 28 of my favorite comments from that period, or should I say that I picked my favorite comments and it turned out there were 28. You'll notice that three users got more than one rewarded comment!
Now I have interacted with a lot of you in some very engaging comments, but these are only on my posts, not on your posts, and since I make the arbitrary rules here, that's the way it is!
So anyways....this is the official beta period of what I am going to call Small Fish Games. That name is also in beta, so if I find that the tag is being used or anybody thinks of a better idea (including me) I might change it. But the idea is the following:
I am going to continue to work on different projects that relate to steem in different ways. I have had success here and have developed different strategies. I like rewarding users who engage and do good stuff. Now I want to have a long form contest where new users (and anybody!) can play around having fun on steem like I do. If I have to work more on one aspect, and I may not be able to comment as much as I like, I might send the competitors to comment in a certain tag that week for a chance to win a prize. Or other things that I think of, I have lots of great ideas already.
For this first week I do have some homework for any interested participants:
Week 1 Homework
Express your intent to participate in a comment, let me know how long you have been on steem, what is your experience so far, what have you tried, what has worked, what hasn't worked.
Register in Asher's Engagement League if you haven't already.
Prizes
I will use three forms of prizes, and maybe more if I think of them. They are:
Delegated SP - This week there will be a 100 delegated SP prize (length too be determined, but probably several weeks at least)
SBI shares - I love these things!
I have to run now, I am accepting entries, comments, suggestions, clarification, notification, queries, confused looks and complaints in the comments section!
Love and LIght!