The Kindest Night Of The Year Challenge by phoenixwren

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· @phoenixwren ·
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The Kindest Night Of The Year Challenge
Aw yus frens it's been a hot minute since I did a challenge, so we're doing another December-themed one!  You might remember last year I held the [Evergreen December Challenge](https://steemit.com/contest/@phoenixwren/evergreen-december-challenge), which was an environmentally-themed, month-long contest.  This December's contest is going to be about random acts of kindness!  Steem has been pretty down lately - I've felt down about it, I've seen others feeling down about it - and not just the price, but the whole environment.  We've got people downvoting to counter @steembasicincome votes now, which is just crazy to me as SBI is there helping the little redfish and minnows and is a win-win situation in that if you want to invest in it, you also are buying shares for others as well - it's a community-driven, helping-each-other system!  There's nothing "abusive" about it, but there you are - "new Steem" seems to have brought out the bullies even more than before.  A lot of people are understandably frustrated!

So I thought, my favorite thing about Steem has always been the #ophumanangels community.  I know, I know, it's been pretty quiet of late (the whole blockchain has been pretty quiet of late... ), but I still harbor hope that we can #bringbacktheops because dammit it just feels good to do nice things, don't you think?  I know I'm always inspired when I see other people's posts about ops, and it gives me ideas!

Sooooooooooooooooo I call this one The Kindest Night Of The Year challenge (since I celebrate the solstice which is the longest night of the year)!

![Kindest night of the year challenge.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUrRwoQnnN6NvMGfXrPu8xrBpKuJ5KKFWReVMAjdUE2xu/Kindest%20night%20of%20the%20year%20challenge.png)

# How It Works

Do as many of these 31 ideas for random acts of kindness as you want!  

1.	Give someone a compliment
2.	Let someone cut in front of you in line
3.	Hold the door open for someone
4.	Hide a kind note for someone to find
5.	Donate some books to a Little Free Library
6.	Put some money in a vending machine so the next person can get a free drink (or whatever)
7.	Send a thank you note to someone
8.	Feed wildlife (safely! Birdseed or something)
9.	Offer to help someone
10.	Let a car in front of you in traffic or give up your seat on the bus if it’s crowded
11.	Send a snail mail letter to someone you care about or a prisoner in jail
12.	Give a gift to your mail carrier, the super or maintenance person of your building, the barista you see every morning, or someone else who serves you on a regular basis
13.	Shovel the snow off someone else’s sidewalk or stairs, or a bus stop
14.	Pick up litter (don’t forget to tag that one #cleanplanet!)
15.	Give money to a homeless person
16.	Bake extra and share
17.	Volunteer
18.	Smile and say “hello” to people you pass by throughout your day
19.	Plant a free tree with my referral code (hee hee): http://onetreeplanted.refr.cc/wrenpaasch
20.	Visit elders or sick people in a nursing home, or animals in the shelter
21.	Tell someone how much they mean to you
22.	Find a book about a group of people you don’t know much about, and learn more about them
23.	Sign a petition, donate to a GoFundMe, or write a letter to a company or politician about a cause you care about
24.	Learn how to say a few basic things in another language (this includes sign language!)
25.	Put things back in the correct place and make the shelf neat when you’re in the store. Retail workers’ lives are going to be crazy this month! Be extra nice to them.
26.	Buy fair trade chocolate or coffee, or something from a local artisan
27.	When putting your shopping cart back in the corral, grab another stray one from the parking lot and put it back, too. This helps both the workers as well as other drivers who might hit it.
28.	Put change in someone’s expired parking meter
29.	Tend to some place that is sacred; clean up a gravesite, or a temple, or a church, or make an offering or light a candle (where it’s allowed, don’t go setting a graveyard on fire please). In our modern world we tend to disconnect and everything becomes drab and mundane. Do something that feeds your soul (and also the souls of others who hold that place sacred too)!
30.	Invite someone to a gathering or for an outing who you think might be lonely or have nowhere to go over the holidays
31.	Leave a good review for a business or worker, and/or tip well. Usually people only hear about complaints!


# Then Write a Post

Write about your experience(s) doing the kindness acts.  Pictures are great, but obviously not all of them are photo opportunities, so we're doing this on the honor system.    Cheating on a kindness contest would be pretty terrible, so I have faith that y'all are honest. ;)

# Post By Saturday, December 21st

That's the winter solstice.  Entries are closed after the date has passed in my time zone, so at 00:01 am on 22 Dec MST.  PUT THE LINK TO YOUR POST IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS ONE so I can find it.  Be sure to tag it #ophumanangels as well!

# Winners Are Chosen By My Cats

If you're a follower of my blog you know that Maggie and Yuan judge all my contests.  Everyone who enters gets their name put on a piece of paper, and I put a treat or catnip on all the papers, and whichever one my cat(s) go to first is the winner.  There will be three winners, so it will be the first three treats they choose to eat!

![Yuan 7.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSNLTfib2wE8zNWMg2Vf9uN8aQn6SSv5oJuyTdnHbGpeJ/Yuan%207.jpg)
*I am ready for the treats.*

# Prizes!

### First Place
wins 5 shares of SBI (because fuck bullies! I love SBI!  LOL), 2 Steem in @dustsweeper votes (if you don't know Dusty, he scans for "dust" votes and upvotes them to get them above the threshold so you actually get paid), AND 5 Steem sent to the Steem-project of your choice: @drutter for the Mission: Agua-Possible project in Venezuela, @schoolforsdg4 to support the school in Bangladesh, or @treeplanter to support tree planting in Cameroon. :)

### Second Place
wins 3 shares of SBI, 2 Steem in @dustsweeper votes, and 5 Steem sent to one of the three Steem-funded projects of your choice

### Third Place
wins 2 Steem in @dustsweeper votes and 5 Steem sent to one of the 3 projects of your choice.

# So Go Be Kind
Because kindness rules! :D

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@shanibeer ·
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Lovely to see one of your contests again :) this one is inspired! 💐
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@phoenixwren ·
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Thanks!  I hope you decide to join in! <3
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I will do my best :)
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@phoenixwren ·
Thank you!  I don't know why that other person downvoted you. :(
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<p>This post has received a 3.13 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @sbi-booster.</p>
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Liiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!! 
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@riverflows ·
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OH YES!! Bring back #ophumanangels!!! I love this - I'll share in Natural Medicine for you too. Love it. xx 

And downvoting the people with SBI - that's insane. What's being done to counter it? I've noticed one or two mosquitoes but it doesn't matter much to me. 
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@phoenixwren ·
Thanks for the share!
I know that some people are countering the downvotes with follow-up upvotes; some people have tried to talk to the one doing the downvotes but apparently he isn't responding to them.  But other than that, I don't know that there is a concerted, unified effort.
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@brittandjosie ·
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Dear friend its been too long, how are you sorry i havent been around. I am now nd love the challange and i am sharing it in the steemterminal for all that want to participate and i will enter asap,
Love and Kiss for the CAT’s
Britt
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@phoenixwren ·
Hi Britt!  No worries, I haven't been around much of late, either.  I hope you are well.  Thank you for sharing! I look forward to reading your post! :)
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@marblely ·
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This is a cool one! I need to keep tabs now :D
Is it really that people are downvoting to counter sbi/steembasicincome? That is so sad! Already we don't earn much :(
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@phoenixwren ·
It is just one guy and his alt accounts from what i understand. He says that he thinks SBI is "vote buying." Some people are countering with upvotes and some have tried to reach out to him but so far he's not budging. Bullies got worse after the hf, not better...
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@justclickindiva ·
Hi @phoenixwren.  This is a great challenge, especially for this time of the year.  I will try to challenge myself further this season with different items than what I usually do.
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@phoenixwren ·
Right on! I hope you post about your efforts and join in, i love reading people's stories of random acts of kindness. :)
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@vibeof100monkeys ·
Great cause I need to get back on it to be honest. Although do a lot of those in my daily life. Having computer issues at the mo though as my one with all my photo's is not playing ball, I'm hoping it will kick back into action soon.... 💯🐒
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@phoenixwren ·
$0.02
I understand computer issues! My wifi was down more than up for a couple of months. Been working the past few days ...I hope it stays working!
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@vibeof100monkeys ·
I think it's shorted out so it's looking dyer! Fingers cross it will dry out in a few days haha 💯🐒
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@bethvalverde ·
Great ideas!!!
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@phoenixwren ·
$0.02
Thank you! :)
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@ecoinstant ·
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I did the thing with your referral code!  I don't know what happened, it just took me to an empty cart that said - continue shopping.....

So I did!  And now I'm looking at this and thinking we should get involved here locally!

![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/ecoinstant/lwxcdgOA-image.png)
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@phoenixwren ·
They sometimes have big tree planting events! The code you need to copy from a pop up, then you "shop" and choose a project and put a tree(s) in your cart, then you paste the coupon code to get one free when you check out. :)
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@novacadian ·
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Great to see you on *The Chain*, @phoenixwren. As mentioned in my last comment to you, for some reason, you do not show up on my feed as much as before #newsteem regardless of your posting frequency.

Your contest sounds wonderful and the fastidiousness of your judges cannot be challenged. 

There is one thing in this post which motivated me to make a comment. That is....

>We've got people downvoting to counter @steembasicincome votes now, which is just crazy to me as SBI is there helping the little redfish and minnows and is a win-win situation in that if you want to invest in it, you also are buying shares for others as well - it's a community-driven, helping-each-other system! 

This happened to me recently. Somewhere along the line someone must have given my some SBI and when an upvote came from it a downvote soon followed. At first it took be back a bit; yet thinking on it further they had a point. SBI is not *Proof of Brain* no matter how well intended. A bot is a bot is a bot, as a rose is a rose is a rose. My final verdict was to agree and take the hit in stride.

Just thought to throw that out there as another perspective. If you want to help those *little folks* then my manual curation might be more in line with #newsteem. Just sayin. 😎

Wishing you a happy and non-downvoted Yule! 🎄
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@phoenixwren ·
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It's a community bot - you cannot participate without helping someone else along the way.  Which is proof of brain in a different way - proof of you thinking someone else worthy of some shares, be it from winning a contest that they participated in, or you follow them and like their content, or whatever.  You can't just buy in for yourself without choosing someone else to help too.  So while the voting is not manual - there has never been a rule against non-manual voting.  And I say this as someone who has never automated my votes.  People automate for different reasons - maybe they're on vacation and they don't want their VP to go to waste so they set it to support their favorite authors.  But I buy SBI for people generally because my manual vote is worth a penny.  It's a different way I can support people that has more impact than my paltry vote.  Making all bots punished takes away the ability of us little people to support causes/people we want to support in a greater way. I'm not talking about big ass bot vote buying - sure, downvote that with my blessing.  But like, I want to send little bot votes to say, the school in Bangladesh or the well project in Venezuela or someone who does a good #ophumanangels, and now I can't anymore because it all gets nullified.  It IS killing my manual choice to read an article and want to reward it more than my poor ass can otherwise. And yes, I can send a Steem plainly - but a bot vote would give them more than 1 Steem. And sending it in the wallet wouldn't give the post a chance to reach the 5 Steem threshold where it's rewards are not penalized, nor expand it's reach by having more votes on it. It's minimizing the ability of anyone without a big vote to offer an even semi-decent vote to things they believe in or have any influence or power at all.  It's giving more power to the whales and less to the minnows.
Of course, people are free to be assholes if they want to be - they always have been - but this bullying has gotten a lot worse now.  It's preventing people from building their accounts and supporting other accounts so that we can all grow in any way other than being financially able to buy a large stake with fiat.  I think it's bullshit.
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@novacadian · (edited)
You will find [posts](https://steemit.com/steem/@novacadian/a-decentralized-capcha-annonymous-proof-of-brain-verification) from over a year ago, @phoenixwren,  of me beating the drum for an *optional* distributed CAPCHA proof of *Proof of Brain* system for the blockchain.

Without such a system, in my opinion, there will always be grey zones of automated account usage. For example the auto-voting that you had brought up would be under the same attack as SBIs if they could be clearly identified.  It is, likely, only the fact that they cannot be distinguished from manual usage that keeps them from being downvoted. 

It seems to me that the technology cannot stop the use of automation of account use; nor should it. The code can, however, offer rewards to curb that behavior through the use of their algorithms. 

By rewarding the usage of a CAPCHA system so that stake holders can make a more informed decision of their actions would be a *good thing* in my option.  There would also be the bonus of giving the non-top 20 witnesses a revenue stream of CAPCHA internal transaction fees coming from a community pool. 

We could then bring to the debate a situation whereby we could say definitively that , *this account was downvoted when they were still under a CAPCHA verification time limit* to *this account was downvoted when they were not under a CAPCHA verification time limit*.

Until such a system is in place (which is not likely) we must do what we can to *minimalize* behaviors that are not desired by the Community's representatives... the top 20 witnesses. This brings us to the opinion of the *Code is Law*, which is another story. You will find me in that camp.

My approach is not to *ban* bots but to offer an option that clearly identifies manual account usage so that dApps and stake holders can decide on their response through verifiable means or demand the use of those means to avoid the consequences of their actions.

Reading [my post](https://steemit.com/steem-network/@novacadian/where-is-the-trust-in-proof-of-brain-mining) you will see that all STEEM generated through automated account actions are deemed counterfeit STEEM in my opinion.

[Edit : Corrected proper links and some grammer ]
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