THE RARE CREATIVITY CONTEST
The "Rare Creativity Contest" was a tricky one to come up with. Considering the fact that EPISTEM has 8 core niches which are Education, Psychology, Ingenuity (art and poetry), Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; we needed to come up with a contest template that allows every author (regardless of which of the EPISTEM niche he/she writes on) to participate in it.
After much consideration with the team, we decided that it's best to create a contest that involves giving a word or subject to the contest participants, and allowing them to publish a work on that subject in any of the niches of interest to the EPISTEM project.
Take for instance the word "Aeroplane". An author whose choice of niche is "education" can create an educative piece about the Aeroplane. An artist can create an art about aeroplane. A poet can also write on this subject. Under psychology, an author can write about some people's phobia for flying e.t.c. In like manner, authors in the STEM niche can create something out of this same subject.
Now, this may sound like a stretch but this why the Contest is titled the "Rare Creativity Contest", and any person who participates in this contest is definitely a genius, as it takes an ingenious level of creativity to develop a work out of any subject that is thrown at you.
GUIDELINES ON HOW TO PARTICIPATE ON THE CREATIVITY CONTEST
Publish a post based on the "contest word or subject" announced for the week on any of the EPISTEM niche of your choice. To be fair authors are allowed to make only one entry per week.
Include the #epistem and #epistemrare in your posting tags, as well as the epistem niche your work can be classified.
Let your post heading be in this format:
Epistem Rare Creativity Contest / Week (Number of the contest week)/ Niche - Contest Word for the Week.
For instance, let's say the word contest for the week is "Aeroplane" and you choose the poetry niche in the Week 1 of the contest; then your heading should be:
Epistem Rare Creativity Contest / Week 1 / Poetry - Aeroplane.Tweet your post. The format for the tweet should be:
"Topic of your publication"
#blurt #epistemrare @Epistem_
"Link of the publication".
We added this guideline as it will help us to publicize and attract more persons to the Blurt platform and the contest. Apart from the above reason, tweeting your post will help us discover your entry more quickly, as sometimes some publications do fail to show up when searched under a given tag.
**Don't forget the _ after the @Epistem_ **
Additional Guidelines
To avoid the issue of spamming and plagiarism, we included these guidelines as well.
All entries apart from works under the Poetry and Art niche should contain atleast 300 words.
Poetry works should be up to 60 words and should be of good quality.
Considering how the contest is structured, photography won't be considered under arts. Also artists are required to write atleast 60 words describing the art they have presented.
CRITERIA FOR CHOOSING THE WINNERS OF THE CONTEST
Now, it's important you read this part carefully.
There winners of the weekly contest will be chosen based on their adherence to the following:
The winners must fulfil all the guidelines listed above.
The quality of the content produced will be quantified based on how detailed, creative and informative it is.
How the author arranges his/her work, grammar and the use of the markdown HTml codes will also increase his/her chances of winning the contest
How to use the Markdown Syntax
1. To justify your work, Place this code on the beginning of your text (not picture code).
At the end of the work, add this code.
2. To center a text type this two codes before and after the text you wish to center.
3. To bolden a text use this syntax.
4. To quote a text, use this
5. To center your image and source, use this code.
Replace the URLs with your pictures URL.
REWARDS FOR WINNING THE RARE CREATIVITY CONTEST
Liquid blurts will be awarded to the winners of the weekly contest in these amounts.
First Position: 30 BLURTS
Second Position: 20 BLURTS
Third Position: 10 BLURTS.
Their works will be reblurted by the @epistem account.
In addition to this, the winners of the competition will get a 100% upvote from the @epistem account on the comment they will make on the Contest Winner Announcement Post for the week. Remember, every niche has an equal opportunity to win this contest.
Note:- Every entry into the contest will receive at least a 30% (or more) upvote from the @epistem account for participating in the contest.
Duration of the Contest
The Contest Starts today, and consequently on every Sunday evening when the Weekly Contest Word is announced, till Saturday by 12PM UTC (in the afternoon!). This is to help us collect the data and properly choose the winners for the week. The contest has been designed to be a weekly contest that will run perpetually.
NOTE WORTHY REMARKS AND ADDITIONAL REWARD FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE EPISTEM COMMUNITY
This contest doesn't in any way stop us from curating other works in the epistem niche, so you are free to participate on the epistem Rare Creativity Contest while still publishing your daily epistem post.
The author with the highest number of post submission using the #epistem tag will recieve a 5 BLURT reward at the end of the week. The week will be counted along with the duration of the Epistem Rare Creativity Contest.
CONTEST WORD FOR THE WEEK 💃🕺🔥💥💯
The contest word for the week is AEROPLANE
FINAL WORDS
The vision for the EPISTEM Project is a dynamic one; it grows consistently as the day goes by. I believe that the project will keep growing at a steady pace, just as it has started.
If you believe in the project, and that it will help promote and grow the blurt community, you can send in your delegations to the @epistem account. Also invite other authors whose works are related to the EPISTEM objectives to use the #epistem tag and participate in this contest. Please, join us on our community discord group by clicking on this Discord Invite.
Also feel free to upvote our winners and participants; as well as increase the rewards we give our authors weekly.
Thank you @everyone for your support. I recognize that we won't be here without you. I believe that together we can harness all the potentials the EPISTEM project has to offer. Cheers to that.
Do vote @Blurt.Live as your Witness
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This is great. Its a project every blurt member should key into. Cheers and keep up the great work.
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Love this idea but what if you don't do Twitter?
Hi @riverflows, you can still participate in the contest. Not posting on Twitter will only remove a mark from your entry. Hopefully by following every other rule of.the contest, you can still make a remarkable score.
You know, posting on Twitter makes it easier to discover you entry if for any reason it doesn't come up in the epistem tag. Apart from that, it will help publicize blurt to the Twitter community. It won't take much time to create a Twitter account for this purpose.
I have an account but I just don't like using yet another social. I'd like to enter but feel a bit disadvantaged really.
I don't think you should feel that way. I won't be shocked if the quality of your work keeps you at a level of great competitive advantage. But posting on Twitter won't take much of your time. It's one of the strategies we advertise blurt and the community. It's the little we can do for all that we benefit from the platform.
To be honest, there's a lot that needs to be done to the platform before I'd feel comfortable advertising it to anyone. I like Blurt but there's so many things that would make it more user friendly and aesthetically pleasing, plus user engagement is so low... Unless I'm so shit no one wants to comment on my posts! When it improves a bit I might feel more happy to go to the bother of Twitter. I know that marketing may help with the above but I do think the devs need to make a few improvements first, like tag sorting, draft saving, and getting rid of those terrible pinned/promoted posts that make no sense to anyone new at the start of the feeds. ❤️
This you need to tell @tekraze or @eastmael or @megadrive or @saboin .
Those points are very important , also lack of liquidity and lack of people buying the token .
There is already a lot of buying as well as selling going on, Blurt is most stable now. When other tokens are almost down 200% or more, blurt is comparatively stable and maintains the price.
Which is great , at some point it will pump to a decent level .
Buying is a must indeed , thanks @tekraze
Thanks @opidia. I'm not sure I'm genuinely heard but sorry for taking up room on this post. I'll join in when I can to support the project.
No worry , blurt is free for all and open to all people who bring in something .
You do , thank you for that 🤍🪸💐🪸🤍
Once you have already seen those, you can click on the cross next to it, and they will be gone.
Maybe you need to promote yourself by participating in different activities like a club by @bestkizito, or talk by @blurtconnect-ng or by @blurtcast quiz shows and various other contests by powerclub.
One can not know how sweet a cake is until one knows there is a cake to taste. So, maybe you also go and interact with people and admire their posts so that they can return back the favor.
We already have a lot of engagement, but if it's not with your posts, it does not mean there is no engagement. There might not be people interested in your posted content, or as I said before, they might not even know your content exists.
Its yours infact everyone's platform, and that depends on you if you want to promote it or not.
We do not say we are perfect, and neither we will be. We can only trying to fix things and add new features. But its up to you, if you want to be there until those are done, or when everything is done.
Thanks
@tekraze, I don't mean to offend you or anyone, but I can tell by your tone I have. I'm only speaking the truth as I see it and making suggestions so that you might be aware of user experience. I have been participating as much as I am able. I do minimize those posts, but they reappear again, and any new user wouldn't know that. Wouldn't it be better to put them in the sidebar or to allow them to roll on like anyone else's post? I would imagine you'd take on constructive criticism in the spirit it was intended. I do intend to participate in this challenge, but don't want to feel obligated to post on Twitter, which is reasonable, and it's also reasonable to me to say so.
I've been on here every day and even run a challenge via @gardendiary, commenting on posts with that account every day to improve user engagement the best I know how. I do understand you have to participate for growth to happen both individually and on the platform as a whole.
I am sure you are doing the best you can and look forward to improvements - I hope I'm welcome enough to stay around and express my opinion until then.
Edit - I can't participate in Blurtcast, I'm in Australia so they're usually when I'm asleep. Also, I usually have busy days so a radio show is usually too time consuming.
Warm regards.
Well I am not offended, but as I said it's our platform not anyone person. So it's upto you how you want it to
Sharing or not sharing on twitter, that's completely on you.
I truly understand how you feel @riverflows, nonetheless, don't let the twitter clause prevent you from participating in the competition. For a well published work, you need not worry about that, as the quality of ones work makes up most of the work.
Lest I forget to mention, I believe that this competition is what lot of persons with great writing skill will jump on. Being able to create a master piece from just a word thrown to you shows you are nothing short of a genius. So, even if the participant doesn't win the contest, he/she would know that he/she have become a little better than he/she was a week before. Challenges leads to mastery.
Yes it is a great contest ! Have you shared it in discord for better view ?
Yes @opidia. I have, and I know with time, it will attract more attention.