Excellent review @kus-knee and I am sure that contests are a great idea to support not only fry, but the whole ecosystem!

A contest dapp would be cool. Maybe it could use some sort of referral scheme to pay for it. I'm seeing so many great new apps being built on Steem. I believe they are helping to grow the community, but we still need this effort as it's just not happening quickly enough.

Thanks for your support.

The growth on Minnows and Plankton's are always on big Whales hand.

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I fully agree with you. Holding competitions on Steem is certainly a great potential. Competitions will be useful to everyone. With proper organization, competitions can become an indispensable multi-functional tool. One of the methods of motivation stays and attract other users After all, contests give a chance to get recognition of their true merit parties surrounding plus monetary remuneration.

I think that is a fantastic idea, one which could really take off and actually attract a whole new class of users let alone existing steemit users!

What a great idea that is! Btw. are you familiar with @contestkings?

They have some specific guidelines for every contest that is taking place though such as: "Not to ask for upvotes, resteems or a follow" and they suppost such initiatives.

I wonder if they can be a part of this idea, or even if we could help them in some way to grow even more...maybe the solution is right before our eyes...@o07 any thoughts?

Already planned to be part of Oracle-D's V2.0 platform coming out in 3-4 months from now.

It is indeed a good idea.

I was looking at it last week...

* [**Life is a Game. Play it on Steem [a marketing pitch for Steem?]**](https://steemit.com/steem/@pennsif/life-is-a-game-play-it-on-steem-a-marketing-pitch-for-steem)

The whole area of games, gaming, contests, competitions could be a real front-runner for Steem.

I am launching **The GAME Show** on Thursday to pick up on this...

* [**Starting next Thursday on MSP Waves.... The GAME Show**](https://steemit.com/mspwaves/@pennsif/starting-next-thursday-on-msp-waves-the-game-show)

### Life is a Game. Play it on Steem

a dApp would make our lives easier. If @starkerz comes to SteemCamp I think we can talk about it.

Nice idea! 
I think with the bear market a lot of people just left the platform. 
I got a lot less entries on my *weird-mannequin contests*, haha
The **italian community** was very active (about 300-500 users a year ago), now we have about 15-20 active users.
I think we can find the same numbers in the other communities.

A Dapp is a good idea ;-)

@contestkings is interesting too... a report listing contests.

Ciao ciao

@ kus-knee Hello dear friend good day.
This issue is a big problem and part of the solution can be the contests without doubts, but I think we have to re-incentivize, to the people or healing team that have power of votes, to cure more the contents, the year that happened There was very little healing and this has not improved much. my humble opinion
I wish you an excellent week full of happiness and prosperity

Oh yes you know I am a big fan of your contests! I think it is an easy way for new people to get involved and for others to feel part of the community. A dApp of contests would be a great opportunity!

<div class="text-justify"><p>As @steevc already knows, I'm a bit sceptical of competitions. When I first joined there was very few, there was stuff like @minnowbooster and a couple of Lottery type offerings as well as services offering to upvote you for a couple of dollars. I took a break from Steemit for around four or five months and having come back, or at least notched up my activity a couple of gears I've noticed how every other post or three in row is a competition of one sort or another offering you payouts in return for your hard earned dollars. I was that depressed I wrote a <a href="https://steemit.com/share2steem/@dickturpin/dickturpin-1550571189109-dickturpins-twitter-feed--20190219-111309">post</a> about it.</p>
<p>Personally, I just think there are some elements praying on the desperate with all these 'Games' I prefer services like @shadowbot who just ask to use your voting power and who in turn use the groups voting power to upvote you. It's always a danger when money is involved, it does tend to bring out the sharks.</p></div>
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Hi.. Your idea must be great.. Good luck :)

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I don't think you can build one app for all the contests. 
I have 2 things going on regular everyone and I need to do different things to take care of the contest separately.

Hi @kus-knee

You might want to take a look at what @dosdudes are doing regarding contests. They haven't built a dapp but they are encouraging people with upvotes to list their contests for the daily round up post on the condition that there are genuine prizes offered and no upvote, resteem or follow required.

They are very keen to get good contests growing again.

I'm just a few days old on Steemit and it's a challenge as a newbie/plankton for sure. Limited RC etc. Sticking with it in the hope I learn more as i go...but not easy !

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