I often get asked for witness vote so here are how I prioritize my witness votes.
* From @timcliff post about [what makes a good witness.](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@timcliff/guide-to-being-a-good-witness)
- Minimum operating requirements (SLA)
- Host a seed node.
- Review new Steem versions and choose whether to run new forks.
- Participate in discussions on hardforks / platform changes.
- Submit regular witness reports.
- Provide an SBD price feed and making informed economic decisions when necessary.
- Participate in discussions on the appropriate values for witness parameters.
- Host a full / RPC node.
- Social
- Communicate your vision for the project.
- Marketing / PR / Recruitment.
- Run or sponsor social projects / contests.
- Educate and help new users.
Build communities.
- -Technical/Financial contributions
- Learn how the steemd code works.
- Submit pull requests for minor bugs + enhancements.
- Develop third party tools and applications for the community to use.
- Fund projects that add value to the community.
- Work on getting STEEM/SBD more widely accepted as a form of payment.
- Develop tools for the witness community to use.
- Help fight plagiarism, spam, and abuse.
- Start new initiatives to make the platform better.
- Push to get STEEM/SBD accepted on more exchanges.
- Good practice
- Use the platform.
- Actively curate.
- Keep in touch by blogging.
- Be a role model for how new users should act.
- If you make a commitment, deliver.
Best Witnesses are the ones who can review code for hard and soft fork. After reliable block production this is the most important for blockchain reliability. Dissapointing to have ones who don’t review steemd code.
Witnesses are not all professional programmers. There are other ways to contribute to the platform besides coding.
There are lots more ways those witnesses can the platform down by not coding and reviewing C++
What about voting for witnesses that are sinking the boat by supporting plagiarists?
I don't understand that reply!
You and me both, friend.
I'm guessing he forgot the word "bring" between "platform" and "down" or something similar.
does it require advanced c++ or just the basics !!?
That's a good list. Thanks. In addition to the minimum criteria you mention, I want to vote for witnesses who work (and use income) to improve the Steem ecosystem. In particular, I'd like to see witnesses using their resources and roles to create teams for development or marketing. If someone does a particularly good job in one or more areas (e.g., funding app development), then I would not expect them to cover other areas (e.g. fighting spam). Some specialization there is fine.
Thank you for the concise list. I placed my first witness vote today. It is a lot of work to research it properly.
Sure is. Always research the recorded blogging history of users (using steemd.com) and their often separate witness accounts. Many users would make good witnesses, except they are emotionally unstable individuals that could potentially make rash decisions and even lash out at the community.
Great information
Thank You so Much such a nice post
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I was not clear what they were, but now I understand a little more in that they focus
I'm ready to do something for the resource, work, I will consider any suggestions! Thank you for attention!
I do most of this stuff already. Should I be a witness?
You are not a witness? I didn't know.
Also, would you check out this post about a plagiarist sinking the boat? (I mean contributing to price loss of steem) https://steemit.com/steemit/@littleboy/we-have-another-genius-plagiarist-using-the-same-mathod-used-by-dani-zaharie-win-sbd
Thank you for posting this @transisto.
I am often asked to give my vote also yet only have given a couple. I still have some powder left in the witness voting area.
This list helps a great deal in developing some criteria which to give my votes. It is easy to fall into looking at reputation or money received which really tells little. A terrific poster might make a terrible witness and vice versa.
Thank you for the guidance.
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I'm surprise there's not more top witnesses running full RPC. That being said I don't think running a RPC node should be a minimum requirement. It depends on the need of the community.
Overall, I agree with you.
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Very valid points. Running seed node is the first thing I did after noticing the slow response times and need for better distribution. (Though it had no effect.) My attempt to run a full fledged RPC node has failed due to various reasons including lack of commitment from my side to the cause :( Anyway, my seed node is running for a while now.
I don't think hosting a full RPC node should be a criteria for voting. Those are needed for applications, something only devs/users may need. There's a few public RPC nodes, and those who run apps probably run their own private ones. Many of the top witnesses do not run full nodes.
Great and straight to the point list! Best wishes @ned @transisto
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