Free TON Blog Contest

Short description:

Creation of a blog for the Free TON community, its content and maintenance.

Type:

Contest

Contest entry period:

October 7, 2020 - October 20, 2020 end of the day UTC.

Motivation:

Creation of a blog for the Free TON community, in order to popularize the project news via SEO.

Requirements and tools:

  • Logo and patterns;

  • Use the style of Free TON (website, Surf, etc);

  • Comments and likes as key features.

Evaluation criteria and winning conditions:

  • Blog must have at least 30 articles or more

  • Must be published and available for review

  • The blog must have a personal account with the possibility of authorization

  • Compliance with brand identity

  • The winners should provide the original sources of blog

  • Multilingual blog

  • Telegram ID to prove your identity

Voting:

  • Jurors will vote for your submission. Jurors whose team(s) intend to participate in this contest by providing submissions of their own lose their right to vote in this contest.

  • Rewriting and original content as a plus.

  • Each juror will vote by rating each submission on a scale of 1 to 10 or can choose to reject or abstain.

  • Jurors should provide feedback to your submissions.

  • Duplicate, sub par, incomplete or inappropriate submissions will be rejected.

Reward:

1st prize…………………………………. 45,000 Tons

2nd prize…………………………………. 25,000 Tons

3rd prize…………………………………. 15,000 Tons

Runners up from 4 to 10th place………. 5,000 Tons each

Jury rewards:

  • An amount equal to 5% of the sum total of all total tokens awarded to contest winners will be distributed among jurors who vote and provide feedback. This percentage will be awarded on the following basis:

  • The percentage of tokens awarded to the jury will be distributed based on the number of votes each juror casts.

  • For example, if one juror votes 50 times and another juror votes 5 times, the juror who votes 50 times will get 10 times more tokens than the juror who votes 5 times.

  • Feedback is mandatory in order to collect any rewards.

Disclaimer:

Anyone can participate, but Free TON cannot distribute Tons to US citizens or US entities.

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And will the blog have UGC? It might be a great way to le the community use the platform to share their thoughts on the web.

Are any rewards planned for posting, liking and commenting?

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Hi. I believe that 30 articles treshold is too high. Even official blog on Medium has just 15 articles.

Seven days for such time consuming thing like blog with 30+ articles is not enough.

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Twitter is no longer suitable for these things? We are inventing a bike.

Hello. A blog is needed. It is better to transfer this task Subgovernance Website.

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Hi! It’s kinda diffirent. We can fully support it. Thank you!

Interesting proposal !

Good afternoon! Great contest.
I also want to note that 7 days to create a block and articles for it is incredibly short. At least 14 or even 21 days needed. It would be nice if you change the description. Thanks!

What is the current status of discussion for this contest?

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The creation of the blog (design and technologies) should be a separate task.

Content and maintenance - different tasks.

In this case the best design and tech are picked by the jury, all the source files are supplied to the content team - and they work with it.

The content for submissions can be a copy from public sources (wiki, medium, social media) in order to show that the blog looks and reads nicely.

Please, clarify on these issues.

Hi, Mr.First! This contest is just proposal. Dates might be changed at any time. As our team answered in chat, we don’t have keys to move this contest to active contests.

Scren110

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Hi, Michael! The amount in these competition is not small and it is aimed not only at developing, but also at maintaining the blog. Otherwise, why do we need such a competition if the community is not involved in maintaining their product?

We moved old articles from the blog on Medium primarily for indexing the site (SEO), its visibility in search engines. As for copy-paste, it is permissible to show that the blog is working and it is working properly.

Creating a blog and running it - are two completely different tasks. This is why, these two things should be separated into different contests.

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We moved old articles from the blog on Medium primarily for indexing the site (SEO), its visibility in search engines.

Original posts will be higher in search results based on algorithms. Copying content as is might lead to ban. FYI.

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As for copy-paste, it is permissible to show that the blog is working and it is working properly.

Please, add this to the original proposal that text might not be unique.

If there are no obvious objections on your part, please change the time of the contest to 2 weeks.
And you need to fix it so that you don’t lose it. The extension of the competition period is quite justified, several people have asked for it. For my part, if the contest is accepted, I’m going to provide high-quality work, both on blog design and content. 2 weeks is the minimum required for this.Thank you!

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14 days is a minimal time-frame for classy execution, agreed!

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Hello! Good job! :+1::fire::fire::fire:

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Added warm-up period.

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Creating a blog and running it - are two completely different tasks. This is why, these two things should be separated into different contests.

By analogy Wiki contest you can run WordPress and write articles as many as you can. Free TON don’t need design only, this is a blog contest.

Original posts will be higher in search results based on algorithms. Copying content as is might lead to ban. FYI.

No. Firstly we made an archive to not losr good artciles. Secondly, people are writing their own content and our team too.

Goog day! I understand that the start date of the contest may change, that’s not the question.

The question is the time for the contest 7 days that was specified - very little for high-quality work. I need to install and setup blog, make design work, and write 30 articles for it - 14 days is the minimum time for the contest, and other participants in the discussion agree to this.

I suggest that you record this in the terms of the contest, if no one has any objections.

ThankYou

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After discussion, we have added this suggestion. Thank you for your comments!

Is it allowed to write blog as a narrator, for example, “I tried to participate in Contests…” or “The first time I heard about Free TON…” ?