The problem I have, which I am guessing is most peoples problem, is I don't know much about most of them, and most of the ones I do know something about are not worthy of my vote. Not really sure how this will stop being an ongoing issue unless Steemit someday allows for a pinned area one could refer to and ask questions of the witnesses.
I even had one witness a few weeks ago send me a message in my wallet, but when I went to one of their posts to ask one of the important questions I have they ignored it. Sorry, I can't be bought, especially for steem dust, lol.
@scottcbusines is working on an educational directory on discord with dozens of witness information in one place. Just thought you may want to check it out if you don't know where to begin.
I appreciate the tip. I tried the link but it didn't work. I wish so many didn't do everything on Discord. I get invites all the time, but I don't use apps. I am hopeful once this place is out of beta that it will offer enough features that no one feels the need to use a secondary social platform to manage the first social platform.
with the number of communities and the variety of how they are being utilized on Discord, the features on here will need to be extraordinary to move those communities off there.
I rather expect if you started checking them out, you'd soon discover what I'm talking about. The chat functionality that is the reason to be for Discord would not be easily built into the blockchain.
This is all true. Communities with hundreds or thousands of members, or tiny niches with only a club-full hanging out, are where things get done, and relationships get made. An exchange on comments like this is forgotten five minutes later. But the people we chat with every day, are the ones I'm spending the weekend with now for a meetup starting tomorrow, and definitely the ones I look for and read first.
You can ask questions at the Steemit Ramble discord witness chat next Saturday. And many witnesses publish blog posts, so you can research them if you put some time into it. I agree, it would be helpful if everything was in one place, but it is possible to get an idea of what some of the witnesses are about if you look around. Read their blogs. Engage with them. This is the best way I've found to decide who deserves my vote.
Thanks for weighing in. Probably showing my age and distrust here, but I don't use Discord. I don't trust apps, and something feels off about having to use a second social platform to manage the one I am interested in.
I am thinking this will be how it will come about for me
Which could be a lengthy process. I think I have found 3 or 4 that have my vote now. Part of the problem is some things are not easily knowable, and I simply don't have time to figure it out. One of the biggies for me is whether they run a profit bot or not. I just can't believe that anyone running one (or sending large delegations for profit to one) has the long term success of the platform in mind.
Fair enough. I'm on discord more than Steemit, some days, but you do you. Engaging can be a lengthy process, for sure. There is probably a list of witnesses who run bots. Will come back and add to this comment if I find it.
As for the upcoming discord chat, watch @shadowspub's blog for the replay. Here's the link to the replay of the first forum she hosted: https://steemit.com/witness/@shadowspub/witness-mark-your-calendars-you-are-invited-along-with-the-community
And here's the link to the replay from last month's chat: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@shadowspub/the-witness-chat-from-saturday-april-21st
Hope that helps! :)
Very much. Thank you.
Discord is a tool, you can try to build here without using tools, but that's gonna be real painfully slow.
Yes, I have passed up on several invites that probably would have sped me along in my growth here.