So well actually 1011 somehow...
I did miss the 100th follower, the 500th, even the 1000th... I'm just like that, running all the time not looking at the essential while chasing something bigger.
So i decided to make a contest to celebrate this one, and share this achievement as i tend to see the follower count as an indicator of how much trust have you build on your surrounding.
And it has been brought to my attention that i come out whinny and annoying while doing so, and speaking with an Argentinian friend we agreed that STEEMizens have all different levels of understanding what the block-chain and STEEM and steemit really are.
It actually comes from each individual reality and their own perception of their surroundings, and it is shaped by their own needs.
And well, that is a little the basis of this contest.
Let me give first some background information: At the highest levels of STEEM management there are two different trends which the people on each side tends to think they are totally incompatible, a great Steemizen* told me that there is no US and THEM and that is totally right.
*(that many might know or heard about it because even if he is still plankton has a loud voice and seems to be everywhere)
So this two trends of management of this block-chain and the big stake holders, the ones that believe in reproducing the Too-Big-to-Fail from our day to day outside this matrix society, those are the entrepreneurs, the business man... And there is this several-levels-of-anarcho humanists, that see in the block-chain technology the possibility of achieving a fairer society of opportunity based on mutual respect and selflessness.
It is really complicated if we see it in the terms of:
Us and Them
And the front rank died
And the general sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
But when it comes down to what matters, we are all humans, with different ideas and personalities and needs and hopes.
I have found some of both groups, belong to a third common one: The Free Thinkers, and those i have crossed and spent endless hours discussing and sharing views and ideas i have the honor to call friends today, have made me richer as a human than all the advice Haejin gave to his followers during the Bull market at the end of last year. (I am not one i just like to stir the hornet's nest it is something twisted in me that makes me do this lol)
From a post of one of those dreamers i have found and shared with, here
I wanted this contest to be meaningful and useful, for this I've chosen two pink floyd songs, and i will ask you to:
Tell me how you percieve/see steemit while listening to both songs
And analyzing the lyrics while you try to fit the words in your perception of this block-chain that some of us call home.
Those are the basis of the contest, now in order to qualify your entry i will do as many do, and request you to:
- Write a post titled: Dreamer Contest:
<Your entry name>
- Drop the link in a comment here and explain your actual honest motivation to participate
(Be brutally honest, don't try to sweeten your motives, let's make this and exercise in self evaluation - Upvote and ReSteem this post.
Or in @drakos words:
following three simple things. Read them carefully, I will not run after you to tell you if you missed any of the conditions.
There will be 3 winners
But everyone will win (from your own entry-post upvotes and from what you might realize or learn about yourself and STEEM while participating)
- First place: 30 SBD
- Second place: 15 SBD
- Third place a delegation of 500 SP for 1 month renewable if used wisely.
(First and second place can choose a rented delegation from @minnowbooster for 1 month if that suits them better)
You can submit your entry until the very last second before this post payout.
The winners will be chosen from a preselection i will make and then discuss with people i respect and know.
This in the spirit of consensus that the block-chain governance is based on.
Well that is all... this is my Weirding Way of celebrating my 1000 followers in the spirit of the Atreides.
Oh yeah! Almost forgot...
Vote @castellano,
That is my witness and i would love to boast about how cool is being somewhere in the 100ths at least, like back when it ran under my username :)
Enjoy.
There will be a Spanish version of this post for the comunity i work and care for