Ecency DreemPort Challenge'- Week 2 "What a Mess!"

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Before anything else, I enjoyed this weeks Ecency Dreemport Challenge and it was definitely more challenging than week one.
Now I am known for being honest and critical, something that is not always appreciated but it got me where I am today and that ain´t such a bad place at all. This time I guess I need to be critical of myself.

Kicking Off

Now doing a challenge with a four people team is challenging indeed. Different schedules, different timezone´s, and different mentalities. I do the same in my job as I work for an international company I have morning calls with Manilla, Midday with India, and later in my afternoon with LATAM and US. So I am used to having Zoom calls with everybody all the time, but I am a kind of a stranger to Discord. I am on discord, but I don´t have time to track it.

So we had some initial communication in the comments, a part of the team talked on discord and @princessbusayo was so very kind to keep me up to date on what was discussed on Discord. So even though I would probably suggest some zoom calls next time we did pretty well communication-wise.

Day 1

Boost a teammate. We agreed in the comments that we would boost our partner from the previous week, so my boost went to @ayesha-malik very impressive post on the fact that every girl in South Asia has the opportunity to make a choice.

Now the whole boosting is kinda new to me but that message is cool to give and to receive.
Even though I might have not received it during Day One (maybe I missed it but it I don´t think so).
Even though I did notice that the message is not always there, sometimes the boost is their but it only shows as this:

Day Two

Boost a newbie, darn how do you find one of those.....? That was a challenge but with a little help from my fav. Princess, I found one that was worth a Boost. @usagidee wrote a well-balanced post about Celebrating 3rd year Anniversary at Venice Grand Canal. I often see similar posts with too much text or too many pictures, but this one was just right.
And she was so kind to say thanks!

So far so good, but now things get really messy!

Day 3

Boost a community, and it was decided that the community would be Ecency. I wanted to really boost a post I found enjoyable and I found one. Which was a bit hard as there were not that many posts, and even fewer posts that jumped out on me (and were not written by the usual suspects), but this one did.

Now here I messed up, the post was 4 days old and I thought that would be okay as you can still upvote a 4-day old post.
Donkey dung was I WRONG

Thanks to @beeber I know now that if you want to boost the post needs to be less than two days old. So well there you go I failed the challenge, but hey whywhy give up, right?

Day Four

Boost a Buddy, this one seems so easy...but who to boost I had to pick between @brando28 and Steve @mypathtofire as I consider both buddies. The thing is Steve is doing so amazingly well here on HIVE lately it´s unbelievable, the guy keeps impressing me week after week. I would not go as far as being jealous, but that guy just doesn´t need a boost he is mooning already, hence my boost went to this Splinterland post. Now I don´t do Splinterlands, but I enjoy boosting my buddies.

The weird thing here is that I see the boos there, but no comment notification only this view:

Still, the points are showing and it also shows in my points, so I guess it's all good.

All's well that ends well. right?

Well, not entirely because my buddy Steve boosted me and now I feel bad. really, Nah not really but still Steve deserves that buddy boost as well. Hence what I will do (and is probably against the rules but rules are meant to be broken) is that I will use the points that were returned to me for boosting a post that was beyond the boostpiration date to boost my other buddy as well.

Or at least that was the plan, now the message received is a bit strange, again it´s probably me:

Now I did not get that notification when I boosted a 3 day old post, and Steve´s post is only 10 hours old? What a mess, where did I go wrong?

My guess, maybe I can only boost once every 24 hrs. But I am sure someone will explain all of this to me one day when I am old and wise😁 For now I will just boost my buddy tomorrow.

Bottom Line

It did not go so fluently as in week one. Part of it is with me for sure, part of it is also me not reading the Ecency rule book but jumping in head first as always. But who´s counting, it´s been an interesting experience I have learned new things and met new peeps.

So bring on week three and let´s see if I can end that one in an even bigger mess.

All pics are screenshotted by me.