Up until recently I have been running weekly contests awarding 5 Steem Basic Income shares. However, now I am travelling over summer this is a bit more challenging, so I have decided to sporadically award shares to deserving Steemians. Before I go into any more detail and let you know who I am awarding shares to this time and why, lets have a reminder of what 
What is Steem Basic Income?
Before I get onto the topic for the contest I quickly want to explain what Steem Basic Income is. From the @steemitbasicincome blog:
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.So basically I will sponsor the winners with share/s in Steem Basic Income and they will receive ongoing upvotes on their posts from SBI - a great way to motivate and encourage minnows to keep on Steeming!
For more information about Steem Basic Income check out this blog by
My criteria for awarding SBI shares
As I am going to be giving away shares (which cost me Steem!) I want to make sure that they are going to worthy Steemians. So my rough criteria will be:
- Accounts with a reputation of 55 or less (flexible on this one!). The reason is that I believe SBI shares will benefit newer accounts more than those who have been around longer and grown more. Helping newer Steemians grow their account is something I am big on and I believe will help with user retention - something I wrote about here
- Consistency - this means posting regularly, replying to comments and generally engaging in the Steemit community.
- Long term view of Steem - this often comes across in what people post - their ideas about powering up etc.
- Quality and thought provoking content.
And the rewards go to.....
- I awarded these shares the other day but though I would include them in this post. Paparodin is farily new to Steemit and has really engaged with my blog and has joined in with some awesome discussions. Paparodin posts on a variety of topics, and it really comes across in their posts that they have a long term view for Steemit.
- Posting some great content - as the name suggests they are taking a more metholodical approach when exploring issues such as bidbots and those followers that often follow as soon as you post.
- running a fair few of their own contests and seems to have asimilar view to me about how Steem will be successful for the long term.
- I met Citimillz through Discord where we have had some great discussions. It is clear that Citimillz is working hard to build their account.
Congratulations everyone and keep up the good work! I will have another similar post in a week or so - and I will start up a document with who I have sponsored so I can keep sponsoring new Steemians.
You should start getting upvotes from an SBI account in the next few days on your posts :) If this doesnt start after a few days let me know and I will follow up.
