S3 Challenge Round Winners
| PLACE | AUTHOR | ARTICLE | REWARD |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1ST | @samsmith1971 | The art of ownership - WOTW S3 Challenge round | 300 POB, 500-POB Delegation |
| 2ND | @sofs-su | The Intent Of The Heart | 100 POB, 500-POB Delegation |
| 3RD | @amberkashif | Things that Destroy a Relationship | 65 POB |
| 4TH | @erh.germany | STRANGERS - #POB-WOTW - S3 - Challenge Round | 35 POB |
Delegations will be available for approximately four weeks. They will be removed following the conclusion of the Season 4 challenge round.
Public Merit System
Please click on the following link to access the public merit system: Public Merit System
Challenge Round Rankings
Grading Criteria
Grading
Special Reward
I've been reading his articles since he first joined the Word of the Week Contest. He touched our hearts with a moral story he learned from his father. He has constantly improved in his writing and pushes himself outside of his comfort zone to explore new avenues of creativity.
@corporateay
Congratulations, for your efforts you are rewarded. You did not ask for this, but you certainly deserve it. Please use it responsibly.
Word of the Week, Season 4!
Contest Times
Start: (Friday @ midnight) 15/10/21
Stop: (Sunday @ midnight) 24/10/21
We're starting the contest this week a bit early. The intent is to give both authors and writers a little more breathing room.
Contest Rules
- Be Creative. Push your boundaries.
- Write an article that clearly uses the selected word.
- Only one article per user.
- Do not write about the Hive blockchain.
- Do not commit plagiarism.
- Use the #POB-WOTW tag if you are participating in the contest. Don't forget to use the hashtag.
- If someone (not a bot) responds to you article, don't forget to ENGAGE with them!
Contest Rewards
- Place first: 100 POB
- Place second: 75 POB
- Place third: 50 POB
- Place fourth: 25 POB
- Delegations may or may not be given.
The Word for this Week
The Word for THIS Week is HAPPY
- The word for next week is invictus.
In Closing
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Please support our fellow authors. I look forward to providing more in the future.
Thank you for reading and following on throughout my Hive journey.
Special thanks to @ashleykalila, wherever you are, for the POB dividers. Best hopes, as well, to @Calumam.
Apologies to everyone for the delay in grading and issuing rewards. I haven't had much sleep between work, school, and my own personal issues.
If you like this article, please consider upvoting and following @scholaris!
I'm glad to see new winners in this round. I just wonder what "DE" means? Deutschland? Oh... I get it. I didn't even know that I added pob-wotw in the playlist article. It was my subconscious thinking about the contest.
Lol, no. It means double entry. I think I confused a lot of people with two things:
As a result, people entered more than one article. I used DE (Double Entry) to differentiate between those who submitted the extra article and those who didn't use all the selected words. We'll keep to the one week'ish schedule moving forward.
I didn't have the heart to disqualify someone who wrote the extra article. We evaluated their articles and curated them like we would any other.
It was a tough couple weeks for a lot of people. Thanks for having a heart. My double entry was scored pretty high. I know I am a winner inside and everyone who enters the pob-wotw challenge is a winner in many ways.
Congratulations to all and special thanks to Nonso and Scholaris to keep this initiative going.
!BEER
I can only imagine the difficulties some people face. I'll always have a heart. I think you're the reigning king of the contest. I don't know that we've seen you go outside of your comfort zone yet, though. You're like a big kahuna in our little contest pond. Your presence in the contest pushes people forward. I'm not sure you're aware of that observation.
We all spur each other on. We are pioneers and all we can do is carry on. You are right about "out of the comfort zone". I'm with it but I have other priorities.Last week I thought the challenge was to write "Your Story" and I was challenged. Later I found that wasn't the word at all^^ ... And this week's challenge actually begins now.
No no. This week marks the start of season 4. The work of the week is happy. Also, I will no longer extend the contest to two weeks. Finally, I will no longer imbed the contest rules within stories. Some people understood the rules, others did not and I needed to fix that issue.
I see,
These simple words are more challenging.
Feel free to keep your stories on another post and link to the contest rules at the bottom.
!PIZZA 💗
I kept checking it there are new words, I just had to keep calm since I didn’t get any instructions to rewrite or new words to write from
The word for this week is happy. Also, don't write about the Hive blockchain in your article, this includes POB.
Please make sure you check the rules for this week! And, congratulations! I never forgot that first story you wrote for the contest. I made it a habit to apply your lessons since then with my children.
I feel honored, thank you 😊
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BEER.Hey @scholaris.pob, here is a little bit of
BEERfrom @mineopoly for you. Enjoy it!Learn how to earn FREE BEER each day by staking your
BEER.Have a good "night". See you tomorrow.
Happy! to be here posting my participation in this new edition. I hope you like it. Greetings
The past two weeks have been interesting. To be honest I got confused about the challenge at some point. There were many good entries and I am hoping this week entrants will do even more. Congrats to the winners and @corporateay on your delegation. Cheers!
Thanks @nonsowrites.pop, I feel blessed 😊
Thank you, it's appreciated. I welcome in particular critique and engagement with the texts or stories written. I am still somewhat confused by the merits used, but I guess I'll figure that out.
Looking forward to the entries for the next round. Though, I must admit "Happy" is not something which triggers me a lot yet. LOL
Thanks for your work.
The merit system was created by Calumam. I developed the grading system after reviewing a number of university rubrics on the structure Calumam built.
The intent is for myself and @nonsowrites to review each article against it. We review 5 entries at a time between us as a measure of human performance management. The intent is not to get fatigued during the review of articles. Grading is extended now beyond the end of the contest to give ourselves extra time.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I feel it's our best approach to objectively grading articles submitted to the contest. We've been receiving 30-40 articles per week over the last six to seven months now. We welcome any input into the system we're using.
Have you thought about leaving it up to the community to choose the winners?
From the times when I participated in the @Bananafish competitions, the participation of the authors was excellent, very high and they commented a lot on each other's entries. In my view, there was no injustice in the awarding of prizes and decisions. Personally, I often participated or, if I didn't submit a story myself, I looked at others. The overall engagement was very high, both from the contest operators and from the reading community.
I have watched or even participated in some of the writing contest groups that exist here, but never had as much fun as with the community mentioned above. People there spoke to each other with a lightness, love of freedom and informality that I have not experienced since.
I am afraid that the commitment as a group founder also has to be very high to keep the group alive and most of those who once founded such a group had to give up due to lack of time. Handing over the sceptre to someone else was either not considered or discarded because the spirit of the person who started it was missing.
Perhaps this is a good indication that the sceptre rotates better from the beginning, no particular spirit prevails too strongly, but always different minds make the assessment; so ultimately all who feel called to be the core group.
Or else one accepts that one had a good time together, for as long as it lasted, and that some beautiful projects simply come to an end.
Some beautiful projects must end, as life often teaches us. However, there is a goal in this contest that you have revealed. It's a goal I have not spoken or written about, but I always take the long view and keep things close to the chest.
We took this contest to a general level of transparency because, at its heart, the WOTW contest was about the community. Everyone got to see how they performed, and they could adjust their methodologies as they saw fit. And I feel it's working. As people became familiar with it, they professionally challenged it, and I changed things accordingly.
Self-grading and community declaration of a winner are on my plate. To prepare the community, I envisioned grading the articles as usual, and if there's a tie in the top four slots, then I would present those to the community so they could decide for themselves:
It's a small step forward with this endeavor. If it works, then we'll keep doing it. If it continues to work, then we'll evaluate the expansion of the process.
The problem with expansion, however, is time. It's just me and @nonsowrites curating right now. I had someone express interest in grading, but I haven't gotten a response back yet after presenting the merit bases to them for review.
Yeah, this contest takes up a lot of time, but people like it. We're very fortunate to have nonsowrites with us because there's no way I'd be able to do this independently. On average, I think we get 30-40 entries a week over the last six months. However, I have changed the contest to give more time off to the curators and the community. The seasons are only five weeks long now, and after each season, we will be taking a 1-2 week break before continuing.
For season 4, however, we'll probably break for the rest of the year and start again in January. I want to finish this season in December, so there may be an extra week or two of contests. I'll have to talk to nonsowrites about his availability. I'll be graduating in December, so I'll need time to defend my thesis.
I also have a project plan I need to finish to resolve my medical issues.
Anyway, apologies for the winded response, but I hope I have adequately addressed it. Thank you for bringing it up.
Thank you for the answer. I am always satisfied when I receive a comprehensive response and am actually not bothered in most cases, but rather pleased about it. (I find it a little irritating when people apologise for "expecting" someone else to read a bit more - maybe that's old-fashioned, then I like being old-fashioned :).
I'm curious to see how it will develop and will probably enter the competition once in a while and comment on other authors.
Good luck and success with your work for your diploma.
You're very welcome. I'm better for this engagement. I don't always have an opportunity to communicate my thoughts.
Actually, that brings me to another point. @interpretation, have you ever measured engagement in the Word of the Week contest? Could you?
A very cordial congratulations to the two wonderful ladies @samsmith1971 and @sofs-su . Lol. I have been following you on the merit list too 😂.
Many congratulations to our new winner @erh.germany
Thanks to @scholaris and @nonsowrites for such a deligent work for the contest and congratulations on the successful completion of 3 rounds. This challenge round was both interesting and thrilling
I saw some authors entered twice and I couldn't get the reason because the contest post clearly stated the starting and ending time of the contest.
Well, everyone did their jobs well and are the winner one way or the other.
Thanks to pob team Once again.
Thank you @amberkashif and congrats to you. Well done!
🤗
Hugs back at you 🤗
Thank you so much and congrats to you too. !PIZZA I thought everyone wrote really well this challenge round. See you on the other side of HAPPY 😊💗Good luck for this week🙏
Congratulations to you
Thanks, man.
Congratulations to you too
I feel like crying right now
Thank you for acknowledging me @scholaris
♥️😄 I've got to read your post.
😍, thank you @sofs-su, I appreciate this
Congratulations to you
Oh? Did you read the one I mentioned in the article? I can link it here if you'd like. It was heartbreaking for me. Give me a bit and I'll find it.
Getting there.. Just started reading and responding to posts today.
No need for tears my friend. You earned it. Keep pushing forward.
Something that makes me happy about this decentralized platform is the fact that I can gain recognition from people in different locations of the earth. Before I joined hive, they only buddies I have are people around my local area, and friends to traveled out of the country. Now I get to discuss and share ideas with all race from different countries in a daily basis.
isn’t that amazing 🤩
Yeah. That is amazing. And Crazy.
It's always a beautiful feeling to see your name among the winners, I am thrilled.
Congrats @samsmith1971 @amberkashif @erh.germany and @@@corporateay
Thank you @scholaris and @nonoswrite , I know how much effort goes into these every week.
I appreciate everything you do..
Please please set pob.io right so I can put my pob power to good use.
Right now I cannot even access it.
You’re having front end issues?
Yes, I only use proofofbrain.blog and I cannot vote using pob power.
🤔 doesn't our vote curate with pob power every time we vote on any post or comment?
Yes. If you have POB in your account you’ll be voting with it. You just won’t see it.
Hmm.. but pob.blog shows only hive power when I vote..
I know we do get pob when someone votes for us.. but when we vote we are kind of in the dark as to how many %POB I am voting.
It’s weird that it isn’t working.
Hasn't been for the last four months and my interaction here kind of slowed down.
Thanks so much @sofs-su - right back at you. Congrats. !PIZZA
@samsmith1971 @sofs-su @amberkashif @erh.germany congratulations ❤️❤️❤️
You truly deserve this, well done :)
@scholaris thanks so much for an amazing round :)
!PIZZA !ALIVE
🙏Thank you, my friend.
Thanks sir, @wrestlingdesires
Thank you so very much @scholaris and @nonsowrites. Your dedication to the cause that is Word of the Week is so very much appreciated. Congrats to all the other winners and to everyone who entered and engaged in the season finale challenge. It was a great way to end off an interesting selection of words. If the next two words are anything to go by, things are just starting to get interesting👍Onwards to 'happy', from someone who is feeling very happy and humbled this Friday evening 🙏
Congratulations to you my friend @samsmith1971
And to you my dear friend. You are such a worthy recipient of the special award. It warms my heart to see it go to such a deserving person🙏!PIZZA
Congratulations to the winners as they all deserve an applause and more for being creative and a big congrats to @sofs-su. You rock girl!
Thank you so much @teknon.
Did you notice all the girls here rocked the show this time 🤣
Yeah. They did.
The girls really stood up to the occasion this week!!... congrats to the winners❤️❤️.
I've been a little static..more work needs to be done or I think I just need to enjoy this contest more!
Yeah, crazy. I didn't even realize it until after the grading was done.
Lol, guess the guys have to be on their toes from now on. We've been given a run for our money.
@scholaris, I really admire the work you put into this contest.
I would enjoy it before you work at it. It would make things for fun.
Yes, that's what I really need to do
It'll be really helpful.
Yeah. Notice, I'm not spending anything outside of the WOTW contest yet. I'm staking everything I make. I wouldn't do that if I wasn't getting at least some enjoyment out of it. Also, I wouldn't be spending nearly the amount of hours I spend on this contest if the people participating weren't passionate about it. Fun and enjoyment before business. When you're looking at the long term, it's about the only piece of sanity that you have.
!PIZZA
A big hug and Congratulations to all the winners. And I'm glad you're always here @scholaris.
Have a wonderful time.
Excelente trabajo muy alentador, gracias por compartir, te dejo mi voto y te sigo, saludos.
Dear participants, here is my entry:
https://hive.blog/pob-wotw/@erh.germany/babble-machine-pob-wotw-challenge-season-4
Congratulations to the deserved winners. Kudos to @scholaris for a job well done.
Congratulations to all the winners, thank @scholaris and to all POB-WOTW team for keeping up the great work.
Happy seems like a word everyone can relates with.
Wow, this is so wonderful and baffling to witness such a phenomenal contest and seeing new faces of winners is so amazing and I really feel tempted and encouraged to join in one of this word of the week contest.
Thanks so much @schoris for hosting this #WOTW contest, Bravo!👏🏻 I'm proud of you.
Shoutout to the winners as well, your efforts were massive and your rewards was well deserved.
Bless up. 🥂🚀
I will try to engage with others this time around. I never knew that engagement is part of it.
My submission:
https://www.proofofbrain.io/hive-150329/@cool08/we-all-need-happiness-in-our-lives-pob-wotw
Greetings, friend. Thank you for your input. Engagement didn't use to be a part of the contest. I tested in out in past contest and I only made it official last week. Thank you for your article. I look forward to reading it.
Greetings to you too... I'm happy to have written this great word of the week "happy".
I'm just seeing this since all.these while. Wow...congrats to the winners. I'm.truly happy for them as the words for this week clearly stated.
And lots of thanks to you for bringing this contest live for us here.
I'm glad to see the wotw this time. Honestly, I have not participated for a very long time now because somehow I wasn't able to relate to a lot of them. I am not a natural writer, so I need to think before I right. But with this WOTW, I don't have to think. It will come from within, I will definately participate this time.
@scholaris is doing a good work here.
I am glad to have joined this initiative, this is my entry: https://ecency.com/hive-150329/@johnbenn/all-a-woman-care-about
Thank you, sir. I have your entry recorded. Thank you very much for participating.
I've been missing out of pob-wotw lately, but I've seen this on time I will surely put in an entry.
Thanks to team for the consistency. The platform is better for it.
Hello @scholaris! I just posted my word of the week entry. Thank you and keep up the great work. 😊
Thank you for participating, friend. I have your entry recorded.
Hi there, here is my entry to this contest :)
https://www.proofofbrain.blog/hive-150329/@jesustiano/robert-and-his-real-talent
@scholaris and @scholaris.pob Did I make it on time?
Yes you did, friend. I have your entry recorded.
Thank you, I did my best wit hthis one, took as much time as i needed, hope you like it friend.
Yay! 🤗
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This is an amazing Contest, can't wait to take part ☺️
I look forward to seeing your participation this season. Please feel free to drop a line in the comments when your article is posted.
Wow! Thank you so much
You're very welcome.
@scholaris and @scholaris.pob
Here is my entry: https://ecency.com/hive-150329/@repayme4568/an-happy-life-is-wealth
Thank you for letting me know. I have your entry recorded.
I really appreciate your love and support
https://www.proofofbrain.io/hive-150329/@actioncats/word-of-the-week-pob-happy-esp-eng
Thank you for letting me know. I have your entry recorded.