Once you understand the submission requirements, you can click the following button to start the Proof of Blind submission process (while following the steps detailed below):
The Proof of Blind project was announced and described several weeks ago in this post by Dr. Steve Trost (
Proof of Blind is a project that several students in the class are working on (under Dr. Trost’s mentorship).
This post is meant to facilitate additional submissions and explain our new submission procedure.
Rather than require folks to understand and utilize Hive’s “edit” feature (which was required for the original submission procedure), we are implementing an online submission form (via Qualtrics), coupled with a Hive-based verification-code comment post.
This post will serve as a tutorial for how to navigate and use the new submission system.
Write your post, using markdown. You can do this using a tool like Typora, or you can use one of the front-end editors, like PeakD.com.
Your original content needs to include the following elements:
Click on the submission-form link, which will take you to a qualtrics online survey associated with an account licensed through Oklahoma State University. NOTE: If you click a link provided by someone else (i.e. a referrer), verify that the active portion of the link is “okstate.az1.qualtrics.com”.
The first page of the survey should look something like this:
Verify that your content meets the following eligibility requirements:
The body of your submission should include the proper formatting, using markdown.
You must suggest at least one tag. You are welcome to include tribe-specific tags, like leofinance. However, the Proof of Blind team will remove tribe-specific tags if the submitted content is not clearly relevant to that tag.
@blind.submit “Request for Submissions” post)@blind.submit “Request for Submissions” post)If you are using Hive Keychain, the confirmation screen will look something like this:
As soon as you click “SUBMIT MY ORIGINAL CONTENT”, the Proof of Blind team will receive an email notifying us of your submission. Within 24 hours of your submission, you should see a reply by
@proofofblind account.@proofofblind account, but subsequently deleted because a deficiency was discovered after the submission was posted. For example, this would happen if we discover that your content had been previously published elsewhere, or we discover that your submission contained plagiarized content.The
If you are new to the Proof of Blind project, please read the FAQs in this post (which will be periodically updated as the need arises).
Thanks for your interest in the Proof of Blind project and remember to submit your best work here.
