Featured On Friday's: SBI GIVEAWAY WEEK #2
Hello Steemian Friends,
It's finally Friday! The weekend is upon us! We hope everyone has a great weekend planned - you totally deserve it!
As some of you might know, we have started giving away Steem Basic Income shares to people that follow us and people that we follow. This is our way of saying 'Thank You' to the Steemit community. This will go on for the next 8 weeks, so look out for the next 8 Featured On Friday's (not including this one). It all started a few weeks' ago, when we were curious about SBIs and we gave away our first share to @waybeyondpadthai as she was producing incredible content and on a consistent basis, but we never made a post about it. We gave away 3 shares two weeks ago to three Steemians that have inspired us and their respected communities on Steemit: @world-travel-pro, @intrepidsurfer and @for91days. We want to give back more to the community!
Five Months Anniversary
Steemit has been a real roller-coaster of a ride, but luckily for us there has been more highs than lows. When we heard that there was a chance to earn cryptocurrency from posting our posts on Steemit, we quickly signed up. Yes, it was one of the reasons that attractive us to the platform, but it wouldn't be possible without the support and community engagement from YOU! We had a challenge that we set a few months' ago about reaching 1,000 followers before a certain date (20th of June) and although it is very unlikely now, we realized a couple of weeks ago that it's not about the numbers anymore. Actually, we became suspicious of who is following us. Two weeks' ago after posting a post, we instantly received 40 followers! Firstly, we thought 'Wow!', but with suspicion. Through further investigation into some of the accounts, we found out that they were either created on the 13th of March (exactly) or later. Are these made-up accounts? And why? Who knows?! And due to this finding, we have decided to STOP that challenge as we do not feel like the number of followers reflect the ACTUAL number of our legitimate followers we have. However, we want to stay true to our word of giving back. We have accumulated STEEM that we have not Power Up yet as we were going to give it away if we reached our target of 1,000 followers before the deadline. So, what to do with this STEEM now?
Steem Basic Income Giveaway
We will give away 2 SBI shares each week to ONE RANDOMLY PICKED FOLLOWER and ONE RANDOMLY PICKED FOLLOWING. How will this be done? Using a Contest Winner Picker website, we will put in all our followers and select at random and we will do the same for the people we are following. However, it is not that straight forward. In order for the sponsorship to be successful, the Steemian needs to be quite active on Steemit (posting like 5-7 times a week!). So, if we feel that a person that is not active is selected, we will re-do the draw until we find someone. It is only fair as this is all explained in @steembasicincome's report here. Also, click that link, if you do not know what Steem Basic Income is all about.
After Week 1, we have 18 STEEM left saved up and we're giving away 2 shares each week, this means this giveaway will happen every Friday for another 9 weeks!
Week 2 Winners
Without further ado, the winners of the Followers category is:
And the winners of the people we are Following category is:
It took a while to pick the winners as there seems to be quite a few followers/following that haven't posted in weeks. Yet, congrats to @carlgnash and @fitinfun! @carlgnash has been on the platform for almost a year! He is a musician and an artist. He is also heavily involved on Steemit as he is a @curie curator. @fitinfun has been on Steemit for a year now and today, she did her post about her one year anniversary. Sharon is actually based in Bangkok (like us) and writes regularly as Steemit is a source of income for her. She writes about health, weight loss and travel, but also gets involved in a few contests. We know she has invest a few Steem in SBI, so we're sure she will appreciate this gift. The transfer of 2 STEEM will be going to @steembasicincome to sponsor both of them.
Here is proof of the transfer to @steembasicincome:
Keep posting away! Steem On!
Until next week!
Stay Classy Steemians!
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Co0l! Keep it up, man @travelling-two! 😎
Cheers Michael! Will do and have a great weekend! :D
Kampay! 🍻
The same thing happened to my wife @suitcasemama when she posted the other day. All of a sudden, tons of new followers. First thought is "YAY!" second though is "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrobots!!!!"
Whatever the number, keep up the good work! Greetings from Asok :)
Yes, it's quite disturbing, but the same thing happens on another social media platforms. So, we're not too bothered anymore.
Greetings from Muang Thong :) And have a great weekend!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Just doing our part and giving back to the community! :D
Thanks for the comment Stav and have a great weekend!
Thank you so much! This is such a wonderful surprise, I am so happy to receive this and will certainly keep posting good content as much as I can. I am still in a big quandary about money and life, and you have brightened my day beyond belief.
As to followers, I just wrote a post about my 4800! I barely ever see any of them, but the ones I do are the best friends ever - like you two. Nice people who are working hard to get their message out while also helping their friends as best they can.
I also recently read someone's second post here. He had just done his intro post and was asking if anyone knew how he just got 100+ followers in one hour!!!!
So I most definitely agree that the follower count is meaningless.
I actually came to this post for another reason and was so surprised to find myself here. My son @bxlphabet is entered into a qurator contest once again. I’m here to ask you if you can please go to this comment I'm linking and upvote his San Diego photo on the post?
https://steemit.com/qurator/@bxlphabet/re-qurator-qurator-s-toss-up-thursday-8-free-for-all-promotion-competition-or-rules-changed-please-read-20180608t092142902z
This is the Toss Up Thursday contest which happens every two weeks. I was lucky enough to win last time, so I am not entered. There are two winners and they get a Qurator Tier 5 upvote for 30 days if they win.
Your vote does not need to be large – it can be 1%. They only count the number of votes that come from qurator members and the value is not important. It just counts if you are a member of qurator.
If you end up looking at all the post comments, you will see others with a lot of votes. But they are faking us out by getting non-qurators to vote on them so we will give up early :) There is a lot of strategy in these contests I have come to find out.
Thank you so much for helping if you can. Every little bit helps these days and this is a big vote in the scheme of things. And thank you once again for the sbi share. I thank that is one of the best programs here on steemit and I am so happy to be a part of it. You guys rock! Take care, Sharon
Hey Sharon! Super sorry for the delayed response, long hours of teaching during the weekend meant we were dead-tired even though I (Sam) told myself I would respond to you on my laptop as we read this message on our way back from work yesterday. Anyway, first thing first, we voted for your son. Hopefully, he'll get the chance! 😊
The SBI is an intriguing program and we'll keep supporting this program time and time again. 😊 You're welcome for your share and we know you'll keep on producing content.