First up , winners from the last contest :
@rodneysreviews
and
@lillywilton
Your steem will be in your wallets shortly...
About this contest , last time I ran a contest about what you expect from a witness :
https://steemit.com/contest/@itstime/5-steem-giveaway-what-do-you-expect-a-witness-to-do-for-steem
Rules for this contest
- Must resteem this post.
- Tell me which witness you vote for an why , also tell me who from 20+ rank of witness should I vote for ...
Witness : rankings
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
Suggested format:
I vote for
@ausbitbank - he supports the local team australia with centerlink account upvotes , helps maintain a community.
@curie- I have never personally looked into their work but I have only heard good things about them , they manually curate new content creators.
@nextgencrypto - this is @berniesanders witness , he says things that need to be said but noone is willing to say it , most of the times (not always).
@themarkymark - actively fights spam and engages with community.
@therealwolf - runs a bid bot ( promotion service) which is suitable for investors with great customer support , lately has been engaging with community a lot.
@timcliff - very engaging with community , composed guy with patience and answers question from almost everyone , recently ran steemblast campaign.
Who from 20+ rank should I / you vote for:
@utopian-io ( current rank 21) seems like an obvious choice to me since they run so many dev supporting projects.
Well I'm still too new to have researched every witness, but here are the ones I have voted for so far
My last vote and one I believe is truly worthy of support is @yehey. Unfortunately he's not in the top 100 to screen shot, but I whole heartedly endorse and support this guy. He runs a little project by himself (@Council) where each day he goes and scouts out new, starting authors, reads their posts and compiles a list of the best new authors he found. He self funds the project with a few thousand SP for voting bot and has multiple witness projects on the go. He states in some of his posts that since becoming a witness he is actually running at a loss to fund his servers and everything else and dips into his own funds to keep things going. Now that is dedication and the kind we need more of around here and in witnesses
Thanks for your entry. .please resteem as well to enter the contest.
@ancientknowled3 Thank you for the mention, that alone is priceless.
Cheers.
Hey @itstime,
I have voted for three Steemians to date.
In order of receiving my vote:
@yabapmatt (20+ rank witness that you should vote for):
Oddly enough, I just listed the reasons why I voted for @yabapmatt about an hour ago (for another contest!). The main reason is:
@themarkymark (20+ rank witness that you've already voted for):
He gained my vote from his amazing proactive approach to seriously helping stop people from getting scammed and taken advantage of. He's sincere in his posts and get things done! WE all need him and I'm pretty sure he's here to stay.
@aggroed(<21 rank witness):
This guy is really good at his job - and I'm not sure it's even his job! lol He has delegated a lot of SP to the Minnow Support Project, which I believe truly creates the "whales of tomorrow". It's dedication to the Steem platform and technically it comes out of his own pocket. @aggroed is also the other half of the Steem Monsters game, which I believe will help boost STEEM as a crypto and help take this platform to the next level. He also hosted a few "witness forums" which were pretty cool to listen to 😃
Lastly... after reading @therealwolf's response in the comments section to you, it tells me a lot about him and his approach. He sounds steadfastly dedicated to the Steem platform and it really shows in his posts as well. I love how straight-forward his message is (e.g. in the most recent blacklisting of that one user that I shan't mention here) and like @themarkymark, he gets right to the point and does something about it. He's like an anti-virus or malware protection app - passively doing what we all need, but most of us don't know about.
Cheers,
all great choices...thanks for your response..
I appreciate your vote, but if you talk about me, then get your facts straight! Especially, if the first thing you write about me is: runs a bid-bot.
Smartsteem.com is not just a bid-bot. We have one, yes. Simply due to the fact that some users prefer bid-bots over direct votes.
But only 1/4 of the whole promotion value of Smartsteem.com is inside @smartsteem, the bid-bot. 3/4 is being distributed by unique accounts through @smartmarket, with over 7388 unique vote-sellers.
I think that's a bit more than just a bid-bot. ;)
Tks for your reply ...
Please keep in mind that these are my views on various witnesses and MY reasons why I vote for someone , I never claimed that these are the entirety of their work. As you can imagine other people listed in the post probably have more projects/highlights for steem project but I am underscoring what stood out to me.
W.r.t bid bots , I understand how it can have negative connotations for some steemians , so I invite you to re-read the post as it includes ( promotion service) within the same sentence.
Hey @itstime, thanks for this functional challenge: always a good thing to know who you're voting for an why. The witnesses, especially the top 20, are our politicians, sort of, so it's actually rather important if you care about the future of steemit. A lot of my choices are the result of being part of @helpie and trusting the veterans there :-) But also, after 4 months of being active here I've had the pleasure of meeting some of them in Discord :-)
In general the question is "does this witness have the best for steemit in mind and are they actively engaged with the communities that make up the steemit eco-system?" What "the best" is exactly, is where it can become difficult to make a good or well-thought out choice when you're relatively new to the platform, as the economy can become rather complex if you think about all facets that make up the economy, like the users, the bots, the fake accounts, curation, reward pool, SBD vs STEEM vs SP, bandwidth and voting-power... It can become too much rather quickly for starters. And I'm still a starter:-)
So in my choice I weigh the latter part more, because engagement is something I can actually experience through my own interactions and the interactions from others I interact with. And that's where @helpie comes into the picture: through them I've come to learn a lot about the platform and some of the witnesses. Without @meno inviting me there I don't think I would have voted at all at this stage...
So here's my top 5 in no particular order (I vote for 30, but that would make too long a post):
But you know what? There are so much good people active on Steemit that it's almost impossible to choose between them; that's why my voting list is full already. For me, as someone who himself can't be active every day besides producing one post per day, it eventually comes down to what you read and what you hear on Discord from the people you trust, so here are some others:
@c0ff33a
@therealwolf
@themarkymark
@pfunk
@utopian-io
@ocd-witness
And when / if @helpie decides to start as witness, I'll just have to make room for that one ;-)
Thanks for detailed response...
I think @helpie just started a witness...@meno can you confirm ?
@helpie is a witness now.
@zyx066
Please resteem as well to enter the contest..
done :-)
sry for the oversight...
it's all good man..
Here are my list of witnesses that you might consider following:
@c0ff33a because i am able to reach him in discord and in the platform. He is very active that he cares a lot for the small fishes. He may be a busy man, but he aint busy joining in the comments in most of engagements and posts. And lastly, he widely supports a lot of communities here especially the @welcomewagon
@steemgigs because #ULOG was the first tag I used and still using up to now, they support users by upvoting & resteeming their post. now their community have gotten bigger & bigger.
@good-karma because he developed the first app i mostly used, the esteem app. He constantly supports its user and provide apps both in mobile and desktop for better usage.
@yabapmatt because im a steemmonster addict! 😁
This is just my opinion, i’m basing it with my experience with these people. Hehe ✌🏻
Thank you for your entry. .
"winners from the last contest :
@rodneysreviews"
It was a great fun contest. Just wanted to say thank you.
Thank you. :)
I invite you to participate in this one as well...this one is actually more imp for STEEMians...
My witness vote is for @surpassinggoogle who is the creator of ulogs.org. He helps people who creates post on ulogs.org and vpvote them. He is a mentor to all of us. His guidelines and inspiration is really helpful for us lie minnow. Anyway thanks for your contest.
Is that the only witness you vote for..you can vote for multiple people..
My witness vote is for @timcliff. Because of his patience and he is ready to assist the whole community.
Vote for @timcliff also.
tks for your entry
Always welcome
My vote is for @yabapmatt who is the progenitor of STEEM monsters. He is also a post promoter of those with original contents.
Vote for @timcliff 'cos he is ready to assist the the whole community
Thanks very much for the contest
Are these the only 2 witnesses you vote for..you can vote for multiple people..
Really? I am not aware of that
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
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I won't list them all, because i vote for 30 of them, but I'll start with the first ones I voted for.
@aggroed & @ausbitbank - because they started minnow support group palnet, and PAL has been crucial not just for my personal development. But for finding people who today I call friends.
The radio shows, the hangouts, the fun is second to none. This whole thing would not mean as much as it does without PAL.
@pfunk - because he has been the longest supporter of the #openmic competition - which needless to say is the most successful contest on steem to date.
Those were my first three votes, but it was a good start, I think.
Thank for your entry Meano...
I only have 2 people voted for as witness. @blocktrades and @themarkymark .. @blocktrades because they occasionally support my work. And @themarkymark because he took time to explain things to me in Discord
tks for your entry
First votes went to @curie and @ocd because of the obvious, curation is the goodness of steemit
Gonna participate though not eligible because I never resteem unrelated posts to the feed, and many do the same (just in case you want to open to more participation there are many people that keep their feed fairly clean of resteems) well said this and just for fun
I go on
I vote @gtg and @pfunk because they both host and support artist challenges like i talent and open mic respectively , these keep artist engaged and make them get connected with fellow artists. I have felt the generosity of the contests myself.
I vote @drakos because he was a witness you could talk to, that would manually curate and encourage so many artists and underrated contents, just because he likes doing so. So aye aye captain
I vote @austbitbank cos he supports helpie and of course voting for @helpie right away
Because of cake... I mean cake with family
Also for alliance Enginewitty and Derangedvisions/coffee team forvthe same reason. Community and they seem super engaging and fun.
I vote for Shane (editing later with the user names i am on phone) because I like him personally, snd he does a lot with @isaria to curate. Not everybody knows he is a witness, well this one is personal, I would like the platform give him for what he gives.
And some others... Still casting votes
Thanks for your entry...