Whale Call! Support The Comment Winners Of The Great Steem Giveaway - 50 Steem Won So Far!!!
I am trying to encourage good commenting and I need your support. As you may or may not know I am running the The Great Steem Giveaway, whereby I am giving away 2 and 5 Steem prizes to Steemians whom have enhanced my posts and articles, by adding valuable comments and relative links.
I believe this is a positive way to combat meaningless spam comments on all of our posts. I am very happy to give away a small portion of my Steem to help fight the fight, so to speak.
Vote Support
I am not asking for Steem to be delegated to me, I am not asking for any funds whatsoever to be parted with. All I would ask you, whale or not, to vote for these people's comments, and if you value their content, to vote for that too and follow them.
Somebody who has taken the time to read and respond to a post is a valuable commodity, and I believe that through positive reinforcement, we should encourage more and more Steemians like this to our platform.
By rewarding good thoughtful content, and/or links to relevant articles that enhance the original post, we are encouraging more of this behaviour, whilst at the same time showing the spammers, that the way to be rewarded, is to engage.
Whale Watch
I would respectfully ask that anyone who is able to give a five dollar vote or more, if you could vote up some of the winning comments.
Please join me in encouraging more meaningful and worthwhile commenting. This works on so many levels, not only does it encourage good people to keep going. Search engine algorithms value relevantly linked, and heavily commented content. Which of course is great for the platform and the wider Steemit community as a whole.
Winners So Far
So I'll leave it at that for the moment, I hope this hasn't come across as a begging letter. As all I am asking is the odd click of a button to encourage quality commenters and content makers to carry on.
For now, please take the time to check out some of the Steemians who have won Steem by leaving great comments and links (some before the Start Of The Great Steem Giveaway).
@sumdumphok - The Great Steem Giveaway - 2 Steem
@ilt-yodith - Making Good Better - 2 Steem
@ilt-yodith - Making Good Better - 5 Steem
@demirel - Making Good Better - 2 Steem
@northeast - Making Good Better - 2 Steem
@simivalleyjeff53 - Making Good Better - 2 Steem
@kevaton - Making Good Better - 2 Steem
@bozz - Making Good Better - 5 Steem
@thoughts-in-time - Internet Trolls - 5 Steem
@artizm - Internet Trolls - 2 Steem
@mashiliyanage - The Great Steem Giveaway - 2 Steem
@alexandraioana26 - The Killing Of Nigel - 2 Steem
@wentong-syhhae - Healing The Healthy - 2 Steem
@yoghurt - How Good Are We? - 2 Steem
@faithcalls - How Good Are We? - 2 Steem
@apiprincz - Making Good Better - 2 Steem
@lifenbeauty - Making Good Better - 2 Steem
@lifenbeauty - Making Good Better - 5 Steem
@lynncoyle1 - What Am I? - 2 Steem
Total
That's 50 Steem given out so far, worth roughly $275 USD.
Well done to the winners so far, remember there is no limit to how many times you can win, and there are other winners whom haven't been notified yet. You shall receive your Steem as soon as my latest powerdown cashes in.
Hopefully some of you with influence agree with the integrity of what I'm trying to do, and support the effort.
Even if you don't, I appreciate you taking the time to read, and hope that through this effort, you find more great Steemians to follow and support.
For more details, please visit The Great Steem Giveaway - Best Comments Win Steem!
My upvote is worth astonishing $0.01 but I'll definitely try to connect with the other contest winners as I'm always up for a meaningful discussion. Thank you once again for doing all this, cheers! : )
Hello @ cryptogee Please how can I redeem this 2steem. Thanks for the recognition. Keep on the good work!
Regards @apiprincz
No problem! I haven't sent the Steem yet, I'm waiting for my powerdown to come through, so will be sending in the next few days.
Thanks!
Cg
Oh, forgive my impatience and thanks for the upvote. Love you!
I like this contest and what's being promoting. I've noticed quite an influx of spammy comments on most posts. In most cases it's clear they did not ready or comprehend the post.
For me, writing doesn't come easily so when I post I put a lot of time and effort into it. I love reading comments that ask questions and expand on the subject. This to me makes Steemit is so meaningful. Exchanging ideas and thoughts. When someone takes the time to engage on a post I always reward them with an upvote.
By doing this I think it will help reduce the spam comments. Cheers!
Yes, just by voting good comments we are all adding to the effort. Some people just don't get it though, look at the comment by @mawardy, which will soon be on the bottom of this post. I offer free Steem for good comments, and then he puts that. Which will just cause me to mute him, and he shall never be able to win one of my contests again, because I won't be able to see him!
Cg
This is best way to try to limit this behavior. Cheers!
That's one great idea, spam and random comments seem to be wrife especially if you have a popular post. If people just thought before randomly posting either 'pick me, pick me' style comments they would realise meaningful comments encourage engagement and that inturn gains you a more engaging audience.
Granted some of the comments are humerous, yet still as damaging, bravo on this idea.
I wouldn't mind the humourous ones so much if I ever got them! Hopefully we'll slowly be able to spread a vibe of good commenting. As long as the good outnumbers the spam, I think we'll be OK.
Cg
The humerous aren't meant to be, it tends to be English words put together in a random order, then a response that takes a MENSA genius to decipher, e.g. What did you like about the V90? | a fine mobile auto taking place in the steem itt , I want car etc
It's a crazy world.
I've had some truly cryptic ones, but they never answer my 'you what?' replies :-)
Cg
Funny that🤣, if I get into my local dialect they've no hope.
Reet grand, aye lig dahn when ya get yem - that's good, yes lie down when you get home 🏡
Here we see a dolphin trying to communicate with mutiple whales. Despite their difference in size, both are mammals and able to call on one another. Today, we have the opportunity to observe closely the mating whale call, one of the most sacred rituals in the sea of Steemit.
Mastering this call would bring untold bounties, enough to feed many pods of dolphin or a family of 4, depends on current Steem price.
As the dolphin desperately calls out for help, the sea remains silent. Its voice travel deep into trending, but to no avail. The whales are on a hunting trip and will not return any time soon. Is its effort wasted? Swimming inside dangerous water, a lone dolphin is trying to keep the trash at bay. But one against many, can it win or will it will be swallowed by the merciless spam?
It sends out calls again, deeper than the last. Eyes still linger with hope, it wades on. What will become of our dolphin as fatigue slowly sets in? Should it leave and fight another day?
When we continue on Ocean Creatures: Steem blockchain.
Ha! Beautiful! :-)
Tell me you were doing Attenborough's voice as you wrote that :-D
Cg
You got me, and also in Nelson Mandela's voice.
Big lolz! :-D
Cg
I guess it's a way to erase and eradicate the nice post guys and also foster a better and more valuable contribution to the blockchain
I don't think we'll ever eradicate them, however we can drown them out with worthwhile commenting and linking. :-)
Cg
Yes that certainly, well if we can't stop them, let's drown them
great to see some initiatives. Again a dolphin really making the difference. In any case I’m following you. Didn’t know you existed until you curated my blog. This is what keeps me interested in the platform.
Yes, connections, connections, and yet more connections! The more we comment, post and curate, the more we can grow our networks, this is where the strength lies in Steemit :-)
Cg
Nice idea you made that good comment be made so it could be upvoted by whales and even content be upvoted. Thanks for this idea, some times we minnows do our best to create nice content but later get discouraged by the little payout we get from it. Thanks ones more for this innovation
That's a great idea to give out the steem in the denominations that you do. How many more times will you be doing this contest?
I like the idea of this contest, spam problem is quite annoying to me, I really love your creativity. Thanks very much!