Competitions on Steemit are a really cool thing!

But what I've noticed in most competitions on Steemit is that the way that the competition organizer is paid out is a little bit unfair.

What most competitions do is they split the value of the post with the winner, so the person who organizes the competition ends up receiving a winning pot every single week.

Everyone who upvotes the competition knows that half of their vote value goes directly into the organizers pocket, and not towards helping promote the contest by increasing the size of the prize.

Of course I do think the organizer of the competition should be rewarded, it takes time and energy and effort to put these things together, but at 50% I think the reward is too high and the"imbalance" in the competition kind of kills some of the energy the contest would otherwise have.

I think I may have come up with a solution to the problem...

I decided not to take any of the money from the post rewards on my Social Media Promotion Competition - that I'm running, here:

/@trevorlyman/social-media-bomb-mass-promotion-steem-giveaway

Instead, I've left a comment that essentially says...

You can reward me for running this competition by upvoting this comment!

Now, people can look at that comment and the amount of it and decide if they think it's enough.

If they think it's enough, they can ignore the comment, but if they think the organizer deserves more, they can add their upvote to it and increase the organizer's reward.

I suppose the organizer could also put a minimum amount they would appreciate in the comment, but that would be up to the individual.

In my opinion a 50% reward for running a competition is simply too high.

But I'd like to know what you think.

Is this new way that I'm running my current competition a good thing, and could serve as a new model for competitions held on steam it? Or is the 50-50 split a better way to go?

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