## What is the Deadpost Intitiative?
The Deadpost Initiative is an attempt to give love to some posts that were overlooked during their short 7 day life span, a chance to bring your old posts back to life and maybe make some friends in the process. The goal is not only to share some love with SBD but also by engagement to generate discussion.

## Last week
Last week saw a bit less engagement than usual but there were some nice undervalued posts as always.  This week had some nice sketches and some very random posts about thoughts and emotions and theories.  I hope we can get the engagement back to what it has been in the past this coming week though!   Rock on guys. 

## Last Week's Winners

## @lavidaesunviaje  - $ 3 Steem prize

This post is LOADED with awesome drawings by @lavidaesunviaje.  I think he could have easily turned this in a series of posts rather than just one.  I really like his style and it makes me want to try making something visual for a change.  I caught the flower of life there too, always fun to see that pop up ;-P

### [Drawings! (obviously im not so good... :P )](https://steemit.com/art/@lavidaesunviaje/drawings-obviously-im-not-so-good-p)
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## @professorhobo  - $ 2 Steem prize

I was waiting for @professorhobo to mature enough to be able to post deadposts like the rest of us. ;-P   I don't expect this will be the last time that he wins.  In here he posts about talking to water, and I promise you he doesn't sound like a crazy hobo, this was actually a quite popular study he talks about and a cool one at that.

### [Secrets of consciousness in water](https://steemit.com/health/@professorhobo/secrets-of-consciousness-in-water)
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## @breakthrough  - $ 2 Steem prize
## @joe.public    - $ 1 Steem

I totally disagree with this post!  I want everyone to agree with me...No I'm just kidding this is an awesome post that was nominated by @joe.public.  It nearly breaks every rule of the deadpost initiative (I think we have two), it's not a month old but, I don't like rules so I'm happy to break them.  The title is pretty self explanatory, but it's definitely worth a read!

### [Powerful People Can Maintain Relationship While Disagreeing](https://steemit.com/powerfulpeople/@breakthrough/powerful-people-can-maintain-relationship-while-disagreeing)
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## @inuke  - $ 2 Steem prize
@inuke talks about ghosts that exist within.  This is more emotional and less scary than the title will leave you to believe.  I really like this guy (I probably shouldn't say that cause I like everyone up here today) and expect good things from him in the future.

### [I'm telling you, ghosts do exists.](https://steemit.com/life/@inuke/i-m-telling-you-ghosts-do-exists)
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# Week 19
![pexels-photo-116909.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmf3TgqAwGd67n2DZ493ug5Hz1HwuL46o4G7CJxCxHSQuB/pexels-photo-116909.jpeg)

### Share your best Deadpost in the comments!
The best posts will be rewarded with half of the payout from this post (or a minimum of $10 SBD or STEEM, split between winners) and will be featured in a future post.

Rules
•Please only submit 1 post.
•Posts must have a payout of less than $5.
•Posts must be at least one month old.
•I recommend you don't enter the same post twice in the same month if you didn't win the first time.
•Vote for 1-3 post by others. Please share WHY you liked their posts. If you don't vote for someone else's post by commenting you will not be eligible to win.
•Winners will be chosen based on how original, creative, informative and well written their posts are, as well as how well received they are in the comments. I will use the quality of comments as the main factor in judging who wins.
•There will be a slight bias towards smaller accounts but large accounts are welcome to join and compete or join just for fun and to share their old work.
•There may also be prizes for stellar comments and engagement.
•There will be 2 or more winners depending on how big the payout for this post is and depending on how many quality posts are entered into the contest.

Please upvote generously on your favorite post in the comments below, we'd like to generate a sense much support as possible for all participants and the prize pool is still growing.
#### Upvote and resteem to help us raise our reward pool! And remember to comment and upvote on comments in this post please to show support for deadposts! :-)
The prize pool will be half of the post payout or at least $10
I'm still looking for SP delegation to offer larger upvotes on all submissions. If you can help, please let me know :-)

##### This is not merely a contest, this is an opportunity to have your material read and an opportunity for us to really discuss each other's posts.