Background
@yo-yo reflected on a post of 
We in Hong Kong have been facing the same confrontation; user retention has been a problem, not to mention user growth.
Learning from how 
Each contestant will choose a cultural topic out of the participating communities (actual experiences around travel, food, society, or own thinking through reading books or watching documentaries. It can be almost everything but no disrespectful content showing no respect to the communities and their residents) and write about it at its best. If a contestant is from Hong Kong, the contestant cannot write about the local culture but either the Japanese or Singaporean culture. Same applies to the Japanese and Singaporean communities.
Content must be original or with proper references. English must be the first language (grammar is not a concern, friendship goes beyond languages) and contestant may write in Chinese or Japanese as second language alongside English. Failing to these criteria will not be considered as an entry.
Aims
Short-term –
- By giving upvotes and prizes, the experimental project hopes to motivate users from these communities and increase the momentum of producing quality content.
- The experimental project hopes to send a message that steemit users are not individual islands; if one community is needing help, another community can help.
Long-term -
- The experimental project hopes that participating users can follow each other and might give support of different kinds among themselves.
- The experimental project may become a role model on which other communities may draw to host similar cross-community events
Seeking resources
- Voting power from significant steemit users, willing to upvote each participating post (ideally each post can organically yield 3-7 USD, but maybe less if too many contestants. This is just the most ideal case). Contest upvoters are at their total discretion if they want to upvote at all and how much they want to upvote for each post.
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will upvote each participating post.
is positive about being one of the upvoters.
is also positive about being one of the upvoters.
- (Update as of 1:40pm, 23/Apr) @Livinguktaiwan is now one of the upvoters.
- Potential upvoters:
6.1. some Japanese community leaders (is interested too),
6.2, the witness responded to the Japanese community the other day that some help from the witness would be rendered to the community, the witness maybe interested in this as a potential upvoter,
6.3., one of the
6.4., one of the witnesses who has a vast amount of a sense of duty and altruism, he might be interested in this as a potential upvoter,
6.5., a kind-hearted lady willing to give help to planktons, she may be interested in this as a potential upvoter,
6.6., one of the influential figures in the Chinese community. He may be interested in this as a potential upvoter
- SBD prizes for first three winners in each participating community (ideally 3 SBDs for 1st winner and 2SBD for 2nd runner-up and 1SBD for 3rd runner-up). So, we will have 9 winners in total (3 from the HK community, 3 from the Japanese community and 3 from the Singaporean community. Each community must sponsor own winners.
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8.3 The Japanese community must contribute 6 SBDs as rewards for winners from the SG community to this contest., please discuss this with your community and reach a solution.
- Judges to access writing content (consistency, attractiveness of text and pictures, and originality)
Judges
- Each community will have two judges for the challenge. All judges cannot partake in the contest as contestants.
1.1 HK
1.2 Singapore
1.3 Japan- We need two judges from the Japanese community.
Steps to start the challenge
- Announce the challenge by reputable users in those communities and resteem it to spread the word (Japanese translation is needed and this can be done by the Japanese community themselves)
- Participation is limited to the HK, SG, and JP communities at this experimental stage to test the water and feasibility.
- Give 7 days for contestants to work on their posts after the challenge announcement
- Start a new tag #hkjpsg and each entry must be tagged to this
- Contestants must use the #hkjpsg tag to make their posts visible
- All contestants are advised to randomly upvote and comment on at least a content post by a fellow contestant. This hopes to build a social network among the contestants and give support to each other. Contestants search with the tag #hkjpsg and find who have participated too. Leave at least one comment, soicalise and have fun!
- Contest upvoters search with the tag #hkjpsg, find who have participated, and upvote participating post(s) at discretion (adopted from the upvote mechanism of
- Judges evaluate each entry and announce winning pieces
- The debut ends
中文版本 (如中、英文版本有任何扺觸或歧異，概以英文版本為準。)
背景
在一次機會下，日本用戶
新加坡用戶
而我們香港，其實也在面臨同一問題，不要說增長了，保留現有用戶都已經是一大挑戰。故在吸收及學習
在活動中，每位參加者可以文化為主題，在三個社區的文化領域選擇一個題材，內容不限，不論是飲食、旅遊、社區的親身經歷，或是從閱讀中得到的心得，只要文章內容沒有對社區表示不敬或侮辱，都可成為文章的題材。參加者唯一的限制是他們不能以自己社區的文化為題材，例如一名香港參加者必須選擇日本或新加坡的文化為題目，日本及新加坡的用戶亦然。
文章的內容必須是原創，或附上適當的參考。文章須以英語為第一語言（英文水平從來不是問題，用戶的交流比一篇好的英語文章更重要），參加者可自行附上中文或日語為第二語言。不符合以上標準者，我們將不予以考慮。
宗旨
短期目標
- 此實驗活動希望透過點贊及獎勵，推動與激勵三個社區的用戶，繼續為社區提供優質的文章。
- 以此實驗計劃為榜樣，讓Steemit的用戶及社區知道我們並不是孤立的，當有需要的時候，每個社區都是互助互愛。
長遠目標
- 讓參加者能更多的關注、留意及支持不同社區的用戶。
- 以此計劃成為一個參考，鼓勵更多社區舉辦不同有意義的跨社區合作活動。
計劃的協助及支持者
- 為了計劃能成功達成，我們需要Steemit的出色用戶的支持，點贊參加者的文章。在理想情況下，每篇文章可達到 US $3 – US $7的收益，不過這需要視乎參加者的數量，實際情況未必這麼理想。在點贊上，點贊者擁有完全自主權，他們可自行選擇所有的參加者，或只是部份的，沒有限制。
已答應成為點贊者。
已答應成為點贊者。
- 潛在點贊者
a. 部份日本社區帶領者，我們將會聯絡他們討論。
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f. - 每一個參與社區都會分冠亞季三個獎項，理想的情況是冠軍3 SBD，亞軍2 SBD，季軍1 SBD，所以我們將有9個獎項，香港、日本及新加坡各3個。每一個社區都需要贊助自己的社區。
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c. 在同樣的情況，日本社區亦將貢獻6 SBD以作日本社區的獎勵， - 邀請評判評審文章，評審準則包括文章的合理性，文字及圖片的吸引性，及原創性等。
評判
- 每個社區都會提供兩名評判，所有評判都不會參加活動以示公正。
a. 香港
b. 新加坡
c. 日本- 我們同樣需要兩名日本評判，