A massive congratulations to our 79 cool writers so far! Well deserved and we hope you have enjoyed writing your articles as much as we have enjoyed reading them.
Now that we've completed 10 campaigns and as we head into campaign 11, the judges and Coinpayu team wanted to take some time to offer support, feedback, and a vision of the future in the form of:
A guide to writing cool articles
A publishing checklist
Some possible next steps we are thinking about
So without further ado, here are the above to support you in your writing!
The Judges' Guide To Writing Cool Articles:
Naturally, each of our judges will have their own opinions on what makes a cool article, but we all agree that articles should be well-written, proofread and edited.
1) We like articles that contain either useful information or a clear message for the reader to hear and understand - Articles that teach us about new opportunities and perspectives are really cool!
2) Whilst it isn't mandatory, writers should consider including a nice image and properly sourcing it as I have above, and making sure it is relevant to the content that follows.
3) Again, not mandatory, but articles should typically be at the very least a couple of hundred words, ideally over 300.
4) Articles must be original content - you can't have published it elsewhere or worse, stolen it from someone else - if you want to win a prize in the contest. We have tools to check this and will find out if the content is plagiarised! Doing this will get you in trouble in the long term, too, thanks to our upcoming reporting system.
5) Finally, articles that have relevance to Coinpayu, web3 in general, writing and our audience in general are more helpful to the community than something that might seem totally random, so think about the messages you want to convey, and why they're helpful to our growing audience.
The Cool Article Publishing Checklist
Before you publish your Cool Article, make sure you can answer yes to these questions and tick off these points:
Have I written something that contains useful, educational or entertaining information for the audience?
Have I sourced a great image to use and properly referenced it?
Is my article longer than a sentence and ideally over 300 words?
Have I written something original and unique that could not be detected as plagiarism?
Is my article relevant to Coinpayu's audience?
If you're able to answer yes to these questions, congratulations, you're not much more likely to have written a Cool Article.
The team are currently discussing a number of additional steps to help incentivise even higher quality articles in future and this will include but not be limited to potentially increasing the number of winners and prizes, along with the ability for writers to tip each other and the chance for one lucky writer to be selected from the community and given the opportunity to become a judge!
Breaking news! We will increase the reward to 40000 satoshi from campaign 11!
Best of luck everyone,
Your judges
