Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone! I have some winners to announce and some prizes to give away! Image credit Contest 3: Art There were four good entries in this contest, but I think I will have to give

Time for the final St. Patrick's Day contest! The winner will be chosen on or around March 17, depending on how much green Guinness I drink! Write a story! Image credit This time, the rules are simple.

Better late than never! It's time to announce the winners of the poetry contest! We had several good entries, and two in particular fit the fun theme of limericks. I will again give two prizes this week,

I am still working on choosing a winner for the Limerick contest, but it's time to post a new contest for the week! Draw, paint, or otherwise illustrate a shamrock! Don't confuse the shamrock with a

I apologize again about the wait. There were a lot more entries than I was prepared to weigh for this prize. Also, I typed the wrong month in the photography contest. Sorry! Human failings happen. But

It's going to take me a while to properly choose a winner for the photography contest, but here's the next event for our series building toward St. Patrick's Day! Write a Limerick! A limerick is a 5-line

That's right, folks, we're starting off a series of contests leading up to St. Patrick's Day! This first contest is photography, so whether you have an old point-and-shoot digital camera, your cell phone,

First off, I apologize both for this late announcement and for the lack of a new contest. I can't promise the proper attention the contest deserves at the moment, so I am placing it on an indefinite hiatus.

Announcements Here we are on round 12 of the Story Cubes contest, and I am experimenting with the busy.org beta as my posting platform! So far, so good! I'm so accustomed to just typing in the markdown

Trying out the tools The header size button is nice. It shows the result, and adds the proper number of pound signs at the start of a new line. Bold also adds the proper markdown codes, as does italics.

Apologies for the late post. Yesterday took a lot out of me, and I wasn't able to properly judge the entries or compose a new contest post. For part of the story, click here. I am ready to get this rolling

Just a quick note: Rough day. Too tired. No guest judge. Will choose winners and post new contest soon, but I am in no condition to handle that right now. Watch this account for an update, hopefully some

Welcome! Here we go, folks! It's the inaugural Story Cubes contest under this account! I plan to be making some slight changes to how this works, so be sure to keep an eye on the rules for any changes

Whalebots should play this instead of flagging Steemians!

These auto-downvotes demonstrate yet again the shortsightedness of the "experiment." @BadQuakerDotCom has only had one payout over $1 (net, after curation rewards) in the past 3 weeks of almost-daily

This guy's post was hidden after the downvote bots "corrected" for whale upvotes. @elementm even offered his verification photo here. This isn't right. Click the image below to see his page and

The flagbot that inspired the creation of this account is retired. I don't want to get involved in the whale wars. Even if I can eventually set up a reliable and effective votebot system, I don't want

Since @asshole claims he has made his point and is powering down, what should this account do? This was never intended as anything more than a counterpoint to its trolling, and that mission appears obsolete.

This account is an alt created by @jacobtothe in the hope of spurring an initiative to counter @asshole's flag-spamming as noted in this post. The account name refers to a meme that has been around for