Ok, first off I need to apologize for administering the contest so poorly. It was the first time I had ever tried to do it and there were several things I did wrong.
I hadn't factored in the fact that my SP would run out very quickly after 100% upvoting 40 articles. I will limit the amount of submissions for the next one to prevent this was happening. I had expected 10-20 submissions. Anyone who followed the thread can attest to the fact that there were considerably more articles than this. I'm not concerned about the SP drain. My main concern was that I was unable to deliver on the financial rewards as much as I would have liked. The next contest will be limited to the first 20 people to get in.
I hadn't thought about the fact that there was a good chance that the winner's blog post will be past the 7-day threshold and therefore my resteem would be meaningless in a financial way. This is a massive oversight / stupid mistake on my part and my sincere apologies. I am not sure how to rectify this situation to be honest.
So, that being said: I will need to rethink the next one of these and hopefully the adjustments that I make will make the contests in the future a little more fluid. This is a work in progress and thanks to all of you guys for bearing with me.
Ok, so after reading all of the articles and videos I have determined a winner. I hope that if you didn't win that you will still be my pals :P
The winner of the 1st ever, disorganized, poorly-executed GoodDream minnow-boost blog contest is.....
For their blogpost https://steemit.com/photography/@camera-sly/perdana-botanical-garden-kuala-lumpur
I really enjoyed the high-quality photographs, the detailed information that makes it very helpful and easy to visit this place if we so choose, and the fact that none of it was plagiarized (I checked.)
Now I will upvote all of your posts until we reach some reasonable amount of money like $20 or something like that. Congratulations buddy, and I hope that you will continue to produce more high-quality content like the above blog post.
If anyone out there has any suggestions about how to modify the rules for the next DPEGDMB contest, i am open to suggestions. Thanks for all that submitted and the next one will be better I hope.
