What is the Deadpost Intitiative?

The Deadpost Initiative is an attempt to give love to some posts that were overlooked during their short 7 day life span, a chance to bring your old posts back to life and maybe make some friends in the process. The goal is not only to share some love with SBD but also by engagement to generate discussion.

Last week

This week was a great week for the Deadpost Initiative. We continue to get great deadposts and the engagemnt keeps going up. We are now getting more support so prizes will slowly be able to rise above 10 STEEM every week. Thank you everyone who contributes deadposts, replies to entries, upvotes, resteems, and reads these posts.

I mentioned in a post yesterday, that I would start using my upvote to try to curb the handicap on posts that aren't the first few of the week. I'll give a push to posts which have not gotten much notice. That means if don't upvote your entry right away, I will get to it towards the end of the week. We'll try this for a bit and see how it works.

Last Week's Winners

@axeman - $ 2.5 STEEM prize

I never expected to have wedding pictures in our deadpost contest, but this post deserved it. @axeman takes some great photos and everyone seemed to appreciate them very much.

Wedding stories - L&I

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@celestal - $ 2.5 STEEM prize

@celestal shares with us another post from his series on criminal justice. I very much appreciate these posts as they look at many aspects of what could be done better with criminal justice including both the human side and the philosophical side.

Is Our Criminal Justice Flawed? | Retributive Justice and the (il)logic Behind It

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@creationofcare - $ 2 STEEM prize

These are some eerie photos of some abandoned junk in Death Valley. I really find this kind of scenery fascinating, to wonder what kind of lives were being lived here, what took place and caused these objects to be put here and left here like this. Who they belonged to, every object has a story.

Ruins On Waucoba Rd: Death Valley Thanksgiving 2

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@axios - $ 2 STEEM prize

I read this post the first time around before it was a deadpost and I was blown away with the consistent high quality of @axios's posts. I'm glad to see he's joined the deadpost initiative. In this post, he shares a lot of deep wisdom. He explains the reasoning behind doing exactly the opposite of what you are supposed to do and going straight towards your fears. Read it!

This Is Why I Live My Life Inversely

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@irastra - $ 2 STEEM prize

This was really fascinating to me. I am not surprised that ideas like this have been floated around before, but to actually see them as they may have first been shared and to learn where they may have come from (a relative of Freud!?) was interesting! I'd really love to read this book!

Propaganda - Edward Bernays - Book Review

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Week 16

Share your best Deadpost in the comments!

The best posts will be rewarded with half of the payout from this post (or a minimum of $10 SBD or STEEM, split between winners) and will be featured in a future post.

Rules

•Please only submit 1 post.
•Posts must have a payout of less than $5.
•Posts must be at least one month old.
•I recommend you don't enter the same post twice in the same month if you didn't win the first time.
•Vote for 1-3 post by others. Please share WHY you liked their posts. If you don't vote for someone else's post by commenting you will not be eligible to win.
•Winners will be chosen based on how original, creative, informative and well written their posts are, as well as how well received they are in the comments. I will use the quality of comments as the main factor in judging who wins.
•There will be a slight bias towards smaller accounts but large accounts are welcome to join and compete or join just for fun and to share their old work.
•There may also be prizes for stellar comments and engagement.
•There will be 2 or more winners depending on how big the payout for this post is and depending on how many quality posts are entered into the contest.

• Please upvote generously on your favorite post in the comments below, we'd like to generate a sense much support as possible for all participants and the prize pool is still growing.

Upvote and resteem to help us raise our reward pool! And remember to comment and upvote on comments in this post please to show support for deadposts! :-)

The prize pool will be half of the post payout or at least $10
I'm still looking for SP delegation to offer some payout on all submissions. If you can help, please let me know :-)

This is not merely a contest, this is an opportunity to have your material read and an opportunity for us to really discuss each other's posts.

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