And the winners are… 🏆🎉
SWEET.pub writing contest announcement
Wow, what an amazing engagement I got from you when I invited you to vote! 148 comments with a lot of beautiful words for the TOP 20 stories. UNBELIEVABLE!! I would love to see this kind of engagement on all of your stories around Medium. Hello Medium algorithm, please do that for this amazing community! ❤️❤️❤️
I re-visited those 20 stories after a week of voting and saw that they got a lot of new claps and comments! Thank you, DEAR READERS, for that! I hope you, THE WRITERS, earned one more dollar at least!
Share your wins in the comments!
And especially thanks to the ones who read all of the 20 entries. You are our diamonds! 💎
But…
My good mood was darkened with an unexpected insight that we have an AI contestant here. We always check stories with Copyleaks or ZeroGPT while approving them but at that moment we were on holiday, distracted, and maybe somehow it slipped (or maybe AI detection tools gave a false-negative at the moment). So we re-checked all the stories now, discussed in the Discord channel (you are welcome to join) about how the community feels on this matter (of course without revealing who it is), and made our decision.
In our pub, we do not tolerate AI content, and we love to see REAL moments with REAL effort put into your stories. This was the idea of Sweet.pub contest — Your Moment of 2023. Thank you to all of you who followed these principles!
Hope we don’t have situations like this in upcoming contests!
❣ ️Anyone who wants to know how many people voted for their story can reach me privately (in Discord or by leaving a private note under your story) and I’ll tell you.❣
So the big moment is now, finally. Sorry for this long intro and the delay :)
✨AND THE WINNERS ARE :
🏆 We are awarding you with 20💲 each. 🎁💵
We wanted to open our own Print-On-Demand shop with customized items that we created. But we didn’t have enough time to prepare everything this time properly. 🤷♂️
So we went with the easy way — cash.
Hope this idea of our designed things will materialize soon as we are putting all our hearts into it! ❤️
We will contact each winner via private notes in the winning story! So don’t forget to check them out! 😉
📢 And of course stay tuned for our next contests!
And in the very end, I want you to know that all of the participants, those 125 stories are the winners and we are thankful that YOU are with us!
Please share your opinions on how we can improve 💬.
✍ Emily Chan — Life and love sharing
✍ Mishka
✍ Coach Michael Son | Athlete | Dad of 3 | Author
✍ Kari Lyn. I write to get out what’s on my mind
✍ Sir
✍ Muskan
✍ Philippa Richards, BBS (Acc), DMS
✍ Dav
✍ Jamie Northrup — Minimalist Hustler
✍ tobi
✍ Silvita
✍ NifE31
✍ eleana
✍ Ms. CAPM
✍ Dranéa
✍ Ccgordon
✍ OBA.T.K
✍ Kleri
✍ Kemmy D
✍ Ms. KJ
✍ ann shah
✍ ash.
✍ Alan Dix
