I’ve passed the 250 followers mark, let’s celebrate

Last week I've launched a little contest to celebrate my first milestone: reaching 250 followers. The rule and requirements for the contest can be found on the previous post.

Thanks to all the participants especially those who have spent time to do the writing contest.

Price #1

This is an easy one and requires a reputation level of at least 40 to participate. This to prove you have been doing the right thing so far.

This price contains 4 shares (1 per winner) of #steembasicincome two of which I reserve to the #vn Vietnamese community. To participate, please add a comment to this post and tell me something about you: where you are from, what kind of content you post on Steemit, what you do for hobby etc...

Winners of the Vietnamese prize

Vietnamese participants were: Hive account@a-alice Hive account@lenancie Hive account@nguyentrung Hive account@anfood Hive account@lantracy Hive account@tranquoccuong

Hive account@a-alice Hive account@lenancie Hive account@nguyentrung have written a very detailed description of themselves and what they do on and outside Steem which is very appreciated.

Hive account@a-alice is a very determined young girl who had gone through a lot of struggle in her young life. To prove her parents she is responsible and can take control of her own finance, she did a lot of extra jobs and even took on some heavy jobs usually done by men. The hard tasks required by the jobs made her realise the real value of money.

A little visit to her blog shows original posts and photographs (well done!), maybe the only thing I would improve on is the formatting: a lot of her posts were center align which can make it less easy to read, but it seems to have improve with her latest posts.

Hive account@lenancie described her discovery of Steemit which at the beginning feels like just another social platform not as good looking as Facebook. As time goes by she discovered the whole new world of possibilities that Steemit is opening. She is willing to help the Vietnamese community to grow and success on the platform.

I like how Hive account@lenancie posts are nicely formatted with well separated paragraphs which makes it easy to digest the content, especially when in Vietnamese because I'm not a fluent Vietnamese reader. Hive account@lenancie also post original content and seems to always source any photographs that is not hers (kudos!).

Hive account@nguyentrung is a student at ERC Việt Nam who works part-time in the evening to help ends meet. He joined Steemit after seeing a post from

Hive account@johnnytringuyen a popular Vietnamese American actor. Steemit is for him a new income source, a way to improve his english skills, meet people from around the world, a way to acquire experience in various domains.

However, upon browsing his blog, I noticed (on top of center align text, which I'm personally not a fan of) Hive account@nguyentrung regularly uses external photos without adding a link to the source. I highly recommend to always add source to any images you use that are not yours, unless they are from free image libraries such as Pixabay but then it does not hurt to still add the source and shows respect for other’s work.

Based on these, I'm announcing the two Vietnamese winners are Hive account@a-alice and Hive account@lenancie, congratulations, you have both won 1 share of Hive account@steembasicincome which will give you a lifetime upvote on your content.

Winners of the two remaining shares

The participants were: Hive account@happydaddyfr Hive account@inspiredgideon1 Hive account@dfinney Hive account@proto26 Hive account@superoo7

This group of participants have commented with a basic description of themselves, not being able to determine the winners based on content only, I will randomly draw two winners out of:

Congratulations to Hive account@dfinney and Hive account@proto26, you have both won 1 share of Hive account@steembasicincome which will give you a lifetime upvote on your content.

Bonus price

I enjoyed reading all of your comments and wanted to reward participation by randomly picking one of the non-winners for 1 STEEM.

Congratulations Hive account@superoo7, you have won 1 STEEM.

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Price #2

This is a writing contest to allow good content writer to get something even if they have a low reputation.

Write a post on your favourite topic and post a link here. I will read your posts and decide who’s the winner based on how I enjoyed the read and on the quality of the content: well written, well formatted, easy to read, source to quotes and images added (plagiarists will be disqualified). The single winner will get all the SBD from this post (so upvote and, if possible resteem to increase its payout and your price). If the author reward is less than 2 SBD, then I will add 2 SBD of my own. If you have not won the price #1 you will also get one share to the #steembasicincome

Submitted posts:

Four posts did stand out:

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In this post Hive account@inspiredgideon1 is helping raising awareness on all the phishing scams that are currently happening on Steem. Thank you so much for doing this, we need more people to learn about it, start to care about the safety of their password and keys and learn how to be more careful on Steemit or on any other websites.
https://steemit.com/teardrops/@inspiredgideon1/escaping-hackers-phishing-sites-and-links-on-the-steem-platform-and-the-internet-in-general

https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSL5bda8aZgmPedqtHJjensYedLxRL9dwkNjjFcyqEYcS

Hive account@lantracy is "An English teacher for kindergarten", in this post she is explaining the common grammatical errors with the verb "to feel". Steemit is mainly an english platform, however, there are a lot of non-english users here, posts like this will help people increase their english skill. https://steemit.com/writing/@lantracy/common-grammatical-errors-feel-feel-like-nhung-loi-ngu-phap-tieng-anh-pho-bien-eng-vn

Hive account@tranquoccuong is reviewing the game Arena of Valor, especially the use of the character Moren - Mechanical engineer. I'm not into gaming but I can see the value of such reviews/guides for those who are.
https://steemit.com/gaming/@tranquoccuong/arena-of-valor-56-game-review-moren-mechanical-engineer

Thanks Hive account@dfinney for sharing this touching post. Music really has that magic ability to transport you back in time, sometimes to places you totally forgot about or even to some places buried so deep you don't even know why you reacting as such. I really like that song "I’ll Follow You Into the Dark" by Dark by Death Cab for Cutie, so I went and purchased it on iTunes. Thanks for introducing me to this great song.
https://steemit.com/life/@dfinney/all-the-feels

Choosing the winner here has been particularly difficult as both are adding values. But I've made my mind and have chosen Hive account@dfinney as winner of this writing contest because I did enjoy the read, it was touching and I even ended up buying the song on iTunes. Congratulations Hive account@dfinney, you have won all the SBDs from the contest post (5.540 SBD).

I bought "I’ll Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie
^{"I'll follow you into the dark" on iTunes}

Bonus price

Hive account@inspiredgideon1 Hive account@lantracy Hive account@tranquoccuong thanks for your submitting your great posts, I want to reward you both with 1.5 STEEM as a symbolic price to encourage you to write more content that add value to Steem.

Price 3

You’re not good at writing or not good enough there at English, you still can win a little something to help you while you improve your writing skills. I will draw a random upvoter and the winner will get 1 STEEM.

It is technically possible for one person to win the more than one price.

This third price was to give a chance to everyone to win something. There was 98 upvotes, I've removed users with a level higher than Minnow and bots so there are 81 participants:
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Main and Bonus prize

I've decided to have two winners to compensate for the fact that I had some curation trails happening.

Congratulations to Hive account@hoaiquyen and Hive account@fishyculture

Summary

Hive account@a-alice, Hive account@lenancie, Hive account@dfinney and Hive account@proto26 have each won 1 share of Hive account@steembasicincome (total value: 4 STEEM)
Hive account@superoo7 has one 1 STEEM
Hive account@dfinney has won 5.540 SBD
Hive account@inspiredgideon1 Hive account@lantracy Hive account@tranquoccuong have one 1.5 STEEM EACH (total value: 4.5 STEEM)
Hive account@hoaiquyen and Hive account@fishyculture have won 1 STEEM each (total value: 2 STEEM)

Total prize value: 11.5 STEEM + 5.540 SBD.

The prize will be transferred soon, it also takes few days for the Hive account@steembasicincome shares to be processed. Please, be patient.

It took me over 3 hours to write this post and go through all the entries. I've not only learned a lot about contest writing but I've also got to discover more about you guys, which is invaluable. I have some ideas for future contests and will apply what I've learned with this one.

Again, congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all of you.

Credits

Thank you Hive account@dang007 for supporting this contest with a generous upvote increasing the price for the writing contest.
Random numbers were generated by https://www.random.org/
Thank you Hive account@crypticat and Hive account@eaglespirit for raising concern about contests that are exclusively for specific communities or group. I hear your point.
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