I usually don't post in this category except when there's something to report, but the lack of marketing seems to hurt my standing as a witness. I've just been dropped out repeatedly, and somehow I feel that some people are not up to date with what I do for the platform.
Most of you know and appreciate my efforts to create useful tools while at the same time trying to spread distribution as wide as it's possible with my stake. My voting is done without regard to the possible curation rewards, the main goal is to give small amounts to as many original authors as possible.
Besides that I run several services ( steeminvite, steemdice ), finance the progress of PEvO, run a full rpc node, sponsor meetups and steemfests, act as an advisor to several projects, recruit new members and generally am available for questions from the community as well as outsiders.
All these projects cost a lot of time and money, and while I'm definitely able to run them at a loss for a while (which is happening right now), I have to consider how the community shows their appreciation. If they value a witness who sells their votes and generally only runs for-profit projects higher than those who focus on the broader picture it'd be silly to continue these efforts. @ned said it's a free market. Maybe I'm stupid and should just try to make the most for me, as that's what benefits everyone the most according to a theory which is pretty popular here?
I'm always open for criticism and discussions, but all the way down nobody explained the removal of their vote to me. I don't follow who votes or not, as I am fully convinced that's everyone's own decision. But if you missed voting for me by accident, please do that now to get me back up into the top 20 and secure the long term availability of my work. You can be assured there's more in the pipe, although I don't do announcements I'm working on several new projects right now.
Sorry for the begging post, but this is kind of necessary, and imo still better than regularly draining the reward pool by posting announcements for stuff that's not yet or never available (or worse) to keep getting votes. If you're unsure about anything, chat me up, or post a comment here. I'm glad to hear where I could do better to gain (back) your support!
If it turns out that I won't get back up I'll definitely keep everything up for a few more months, but cut back on further developments.
Looking forward to your feedback!
You're one of the best quality people on Steemit and have been since the beginning. During that time, you've helped encourage people and nurture programs that help reward good content. You've also given of your time and skills to help solve problems, such as the recent example of a need for faster accounts for a large event. I hope your dream of PEvO is completely fulfilled someday. You have my witness vote for sure.
You expressed my thoughts! YES!
Vote or die lol
I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to like my post I really appreciate steem on my friend.
I´m quite new here.. @pharesim, I´d like to support you, but am not sure of the procedure... there are 50 witnesses to choose from, I have set a proxy before but didn´t vote anyone from the 50 accounts listed. The process says I should clear the proxy first to choose and vote manually. I voted for you but am not sure whether it counted. Below the 50 accounts list, it says I could vote a witness that is outside the 50. Where can I check whether my vote for you counted?
To remove your proxy, delete the name that you have listed in the text field next to the "PROXY" button. That should pop up a dialogue confirming you want to remove your proxy. Once your proxy is removed, just click on the upvote button next to his name :)
Thats true!
This is a great comment because it points out contributions of real value but is also coming from a very trustworthy and major contributor to this community. So thank you for taking the time to post this here for everyone else to see.
SteemOn~*~
I agree 100000%
https://steemit.com/steem/@therv/steemdice-is-either-not-ethically-working-or-there-are-errors-in-transfer-or-proofs
By looking at this post you guys will know if he is one of the best quality people on steemit or it is just in smog.
May be I will get my 33.645 STEEM back & other victims of STEEMDICE game get their money back because of steemdice not working ethically or with issues.
Problem in brief : Bet amount after a random number of times goes out of the game : it goes to @steemdice but it is supposed to be either with @"player" or @steemdice1, When it goes to someother account instead of @steemdice1 get is lost! because there is no "BET" then. The player does not get the win amount or 0.001 for the lost bet.
So it would be better is this issue is resolved.
Look at my post of the detailed explanation of the issue with proofs!
Are you playing on steemdice.net?
This is virtually impossible to happen there.
See https://github.com/pharesim/steemdice/blob/gh-pages/js/app.js#L201 and L2 for reference.
It is of course possible to send to the other account using another wallet, or you were on a phishing site. I have no idea who the steemdice account belongs to, but as it was created long before steemdice1 I would expect it to be a name grapper, not a phisher...
If you can rule out the possibility of a typo on your end I highly recommend changing your active key/password and make sure you're on the github pages version which steemdice.net redirects to in the future.
I always have played on " https://pharesim.github.io/steemdice/ "
Which you have created, its not supposed to be a phishing site. Also for your kind information I already have gone through the code of steemdice. I have no doubt on its functions. The thing is "there" is an issue I don't know the reason behind it, before raising it an issue on your post as a comment I checked all the possible sources of this problem but could not find one. And you need to go through this post which have some screenshots of @steemdice1 wallet transfer and @"player" wallet transfer, which clearly says the player was playing on the steemdice web version which you created not some other & the screenshots shows that there is issue which I raised in the last comment of mine. I am not here to criticize, even I am the part of this community. As you created this game for steem/sbd, it can happen that you may find the issue so I tried to contact you.
Thanks @pharesim for your response and expecting that you try to understand the issue here.
Link : https://steemit.com/steem/@therv/steemdice-is-either-not-ethically-working-or-there-are-errors-in-transfer-or-proofs
Your bet was clearly sent manually, not on steemdice.net, as it lacks the UI string. It's not a proof that the site was used to play when it's there, but if it's not you clearly played in another way. And you even said it was a typo in your messages to the account!
is obviously a lie!
If you don't stop blaming the service for your own mistake I will start flagging your posts and comments about it.
And here's the proof that another account you call 'victim' plays manually - a "longer" type bet does not exist
How did raising a issue/doubt about the service you created, to have a sense of satisfaction can be called as a "blaming" & if a doubt about it can make you trigger flagging posts & comments then I think you have a serious problem and you should stop being a service creator if you cant handle the users for their user experience of your services. JUST STOP BEGGING FOR WITNESS ok!
Witness should also behave like a human not just a machine learning coder with all other technical requirements that are satisfied.
Enough! I thought you were the right person to have the talk about it. But you made me realized that rather solving the problem or clarifying the doubt, you could also start "flagging" so there is no sense in posting any comment or discussion with you.
You said you were a victim of the service, but in the end it showed you just made a typo.
You also tried to drag my name down with this
It's your fault that your money is gone, and by saying you only played on the official site (which was a LIE!) you made it look like it wasn't. What's there to discuss? What was your goal? Getting back the money you sent to someone else from me? Make it look like I'd need to go after your few meager SBDs?
I've seen the screenshots, but they don't prove anything. The ui string in the memo can be set like that by anyone, it doesn't necessarily mean the site was used to play.
It's good that you're sure you haven't been on a phishing site, but it's still impossible for that to happen on the real site. The bank account is hardcoded and won't change by itself.
@pharesim
Please recheck the screenshots because it proves the victims were playing on your website : Because the amount was transferred to @steemdice1(the account used as bank on steemdice.net) just before and just after when it was transferred to @steemdice (which is not the account it is supposed to go) meaning that something went wrong in that particular bet.
For your ready reference please check this screenshot. A new victim maybe!
I think steemit is of the age where self promotion is necessary. You have a lot of new members who don't know anything about voting for witnesses and then you have other social movers (name rhymes with merryhanfield) who never stop promoting themselves for witness. I think this is something all witnesses should do, not as a form of begging, just a way to show the community who they are and why they deserve our vote.
Next time you post about your witness vote though, please go into more detail as to what these initiatives are that you help run, just putting the titles up without an explanation doesn't help me make a connection. Anyways, I've already voted for you because I see the huge value you bring, but others may not and that's why you need to elaborate and be more vocal when it comes to securing enough votes for you to stay inside the top 20
Thank you for the advice. I've never been a great marketer, and it's not the first time this becomes a problem. But the times before I didn't care that much much personally :D
It seems weird to me to constantly promote myself, but I'll try to do better from now on.
^ I second @jasonshick's comment.
I have continued to vote for you because I know you do stuff behind the scenes, but a lot of the community is not really aware of what goes on behind the scenes. I think that doing regular witness reports is an important part of being a witness, because it helps everyone know what you are up to. In addition to helping to promote you, it also does the service of educating the community about what the witnesses are up to, and clearing the misconception that the top witnesses are just sitting around producing blocks :)
I don't believe it's that easy really. Getting to the top is all about whale votes, and these are too often political.
Neither making the rpc node a publicly available cluster nor steeminvite changed anything about my drop down, actually the first time I dropped out was just a few days after releasing the latter.
I agree. It's not as easy as news alone.
It isn't, and that's for certain. On the other hand, user engagement creates name recognition. And reputation in the form of name recognition goes a very long way to securing your position.
Preaching to the choir my friend. But even as well known as I am on the platform, and with the humanitarian aid project everyone loves at first sight, I don't have a pocket full of back-slapping whales and old school buddies to make things happen, and the people that support, en masse, pretty much don't add up to a whale by themselves in total. So you can get name recognition all day, get a couple hundred witness votes and still go no where, because you aren't in the "circles" that move things. Someone like @timcliff is a total outlier who has gotten where he is on sheer hard work, contributions and a ceaseless presence. Outside of him, and a few top wits who have really SOLID contributions to the network for ALL to use, there is definitely a club at the top that is very very hard to break into at this point without a ton of imported money or some serious asskissing politics. And I'm not bitter, not in the slightest. I was ON that path and could have stayed on it, I just hated how filthy dirty it felt, and I'm much happier now climbing back up on merit rather than bullshit boosts from people who loved to use my name for profit but when it came down to brass tacks had zero real loyalty to principle and 100% loyalty to money and their precariously built positions.
Every once in a while its good to remind the people, especially when there are many other witnesses competing against you for those valued top 20 spots
A 'necesary evil' i am afraid, it is a 'social' network even while being raped by those that currently control it.
Exactly same thoughts here and know what you feel. Anyways I am voting you for such a bad marketing guy ;-)
seriously, I can't believe people are voting because of the delegations some are renting and dropping the witnesses who are doing what's best for the Steemians ..
by the way, those who are renting SP are charging 18 to 24% that's a very very bad debt peeps, the banks you hate are only charging 10% - the rent for these SP delegations are too high
plus .. if the SP delegations continue ..Steem might keep dropping cause who'd buy in the market when you can just rent it here
no market transaction = what do you think? Price soaring high or devalued Steem? am not an economist but what do you think?
I guess not many understand what you all do and I can't believe my eyes that witnesses like you, abit and smooth are dropping off top 20 seriously? I hope people are not just voting witnesses because they are famous outside the Steemit - that would be very very naive ..
perhaps you guys should do more of the weekly posting of what you guys do and btw, please include it on the table how many blocks each of you didn't not miss .. showing only the blocks you guys missed make the long time witnesses look like they're slacking and the new ones holy moly great which on the contrary is not .. and voting for a witness just cause they are often trending - it's a joke!
You, pfunk, smooth, abit and all of those in my witnesses voted list shall always have my vote
edit : upvoted for visibility
I am glad that you are posting this as I think that many in the community see your bump in their voting list but don't know what you actually do.
From my perspective from the get go you have been one of the most down to earth and humble people (let alone witness) that I have met at Steemit and your voting philosophy and manually curated trails is something everyone should value and be grateful for.
I will do my best to round up support for you as well. It is crazy if you are not there considering how you operate.
That's good enough for me.
I love you too! :*
I think too many witnesses are "afraid" to post when there is "nothing new" to report. It's better to keep people informed than to let them guess. I'd love to see more posts from you regarding the progress of the peer reviewed research incentivised by Steem project. That's a huge move to distrupt a corrupt establishment... Please post more witness updates even just to repeat what's been said, we can't just know what you are doing!!!! So good to meet you at steemfest!!!! :Bow:
Meh, that's pretty lame. Even with my small stake I often take the time to write the witnesses I unvote a DM at least.
Anyway, thanks for everything you do for the platform.
Its crazy acidyo, this guy is the rewarder of good content, he deserves explanation from those removing him,
I really reason from your angle, its too lame removing him unexplained.
Agree 110%. I'm in a smaller boat than you, but if I were to remove my vote from someone, I'd at least try to let them know why. I would hope the people that vote for me could extend the same courtesy.
Ich habe neulich schon einmal einen Werbepost für die deutschen Witnesses abgesetzt und einige Teilnehmer haben auch darauf positiv reagiert. Leider ist bei uns auch in Summe nicht allzu viel VP vorhanden.
Auf jeden Fall hoffe ich sehr, dass du uns in dieser Funktion erhalten bleibst.
You definitely have my vote, however small it might be.
tell me how I can support you and give you my witness vote (I'm relatively new)
I have not had support, but I know that curing content is not easy and it is better to contribute to those who selflessly support. Count on me
click on the 3 bars at the top right corner of Steemit profile and scroll down to "Vote for Witness." Assign your vote from the list, you will need to put in your key to process the vote ;)
Thanks friend. I already voted, I succeed @pharesim
Way to help!
I already supported thanks @papa-pepper (nice nickname)
Thank you for posting @pharesim.
It is very important we have information from which to make a decision to vote for witnesses.
It seems witnesses are reluctant to put information out for Steemians to review.....perhaps someone will take it upon themselves to interview the various witnesses.
Even an objective checklist would be helpful.
How does one know who has Steemian's interest in mind?
There are those who compare the updated nodes....it seems like that is important but is it?
Wishing you all the best. Cheers.
Actually a lot of people interview witnesses, when I was with MSP Waves Radio (which I built and then later resigned from) we did it all the time and they still do. Another witness @anarcho-andrei has a weekly show featuring witnesses every week, and I am launching a new series along those lines soon too on my new streaming network as well. Further, there are a LOT of people interviewing witnesses in their blogs, like @steembusiness does. I know this, because several people over the past few months have interviewed me and some of my peers and I see the blogs go by with others as well.
So, it's happening, you just gotta keep an ear out :D
If you want to know for example what most witnesses are doing, we do post updates, most of us anyway, and I can tell you that while I am not the most prolific author or the most self promoting, my blog is pretty much ALL articles about the projects and work Im doing in and with the community here.
Not trying to snark or argue but I felt it prudent to let you know that yes, there are LOTS of interviews happening and floating around all the time!
Thank you for your thoughtful reply sircork.
Appreciate the information.
All the best to you and your endeavours. Cheers.
Hang on - if you did NOT give @pharesim a witness vote you shall die from shame! There are witnesses that just get votes from their following they gathered on the platforms, some by useless self promotion shit. A Witness on Steemit is responsible that this blockchain runs - these people need to have technical skills and require reliability. So this guy is your first choice! Go and Do your VOTE -Now!! Resteemed. And thanks for what you do for the community.
Isn't it weird, that those who do the most for others, a group or a service brag the least about it?
I feel the same way as you do about self promotion, because as an artist, I normally think, my work should speak for itself... like you seem to think as well. Unfortunately in our world today its much more about campaigning and promoting something than the actual service or "good", which is more than annoying, when you feel surpassed for the wrong reasons.
I'm happy to read you curate manually and vote (in my humble opinion) for the right reasons. Was starting to feel stupid for rewarding content instead of going for curation rewards...
You appear like the person I want to see in the top 20 and from what I can see, you are there (again?).. my vote is tiny, but how did you say: every little bit helps in the long run
Since you asked for feedback.... and for whatever its worth..
Your witness post is a little... how should I say.. "technical". Of course it probably contains all the necessary information, but this also brings me back to the issue of self promotion.
Although my main job is being a painter (by the way, I appreciate your support here very much), I also organize exhibitions on a professional level. I have held many speeches at openings and what I have experienced is, that people need a little "color" in addition to the facts. I always tell my audience, that they can find the facts on the web and instead tell a story or an anecdote.. What I mean is, people want to see a person, not a list of accomplishments. Of course these are important too, but look at how politicians are elected... have you ever seen a poster in the streets with a list of what they have done? (if so, it wouldn't be without a big smiling face)
I for one would really enjoy an updated witness post with a photo or two (even if its just a look out your window or your dog.. if you have one) and some links with a bit of personal flavor...
You got it and you dont hav3 to giv3 dolla bills for it !
I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you yet, but have benefited from a couple of your votes on my posts, so thank you. 205719 lifetime upvotes on 19504 unique authors (and climbing by over 1000 votes per day!!) is evidence enough of the incredible distribution of your votes. I have added you to my witness votes.
You got my vote, thank you for being an excellent witness and thank your for all the efforts you are doing for the platform.
Even while you are doing all the other things for steemit you also stop by in the steemit channel and help out new members in the community to learn the ropes. You are really trying to work and improve the platfrom from both ends.
This is what makes you special, therfore a perfect witness for me!
Thanks
Jan
You are a true Steemian at heart!
I am A non upvoter too!
You are doing great efforts to keep Steemit.com alive
I am happy I voted you as a Witness!
Have a lovely time Steeming
hi sir can you explain me how it works i m new here
You have had my vote for a few months now and will continue to have it. I do believe these types of posts do need to be made or a better idea as to how to review witnesses and see what each is up to but make it easier to follow. Right now you have to go in click the username and see if they have any updates. It should have more information about each right on the page. Possible update to UI ?
I think voting for the right witness is important because lot of people that are Witness don’t really do as promised . The ones that deserve it hands down receive it .
@pharesim I am fully aware of your kindness. I have been a recipient of your votes. I am Grateful. I have @jerrybanfield as a Proxy. Since he is my Proxy does that mean he has voted for you on my behalf ??? Thank You again.
I have no idea who he votes for. If you choose to use a proxy, you should know :D
@pharesim I will find out and if he does not vote a certain way then we remove him as my Proxy.
yes, I would trust @pharesim or @drakos to be your proxy 10X more than Jerry.
That ^ You can bank on Drakos, Pharesim, TimCliff, hell even I make a more aware proxy (for about 15 people so far actually) than banfield does. His votes are completely arbitrary and driven by motives that are not nesc the ones you want to adhere to. Just saying.
It means that his votes for witnesses are on your behalf, but he is not voting for @pharesim.
Same question here, I am too recent on this platform to choose more than a few witnesses in a wise way, i would love to do 1 good proxy vote instead.
@bubke I think that @jerrybanfield puts the interest of STEEMIT foremost. I will have to investigate more too.....
Ugh no, just no, hop into the steemit.chat witness channel and get an appraisal of the opinions surrounding Jerry. I would not use his witness list as a guide, even though it has many great people in it. There are others to proxy who pay much more attention to who is doing what, than this example can provide. His reasons for picking witnesses are pretty arbitrary. I and several others I know had random banfield witness votes and we didn't even know why, then he pulled them back and we also didn't know why. He basically tends to pick people who don't call him out on his crappy tactics, for which he is totally famous or infamous, I suppose.
Right @sircork
Thanks @em3 How ya been? Stop by the @YouAreHOPE discord and say hi sometime. You'll recognize LOTS of the faces there. :D
Fully agree @stokjockey, i have one witness @dragosroua i really like and i don't want him to lose my vote if i put Jerry as witness. I guess we just have to see on what witnesses Jerry is voting and that would be our votes as well, what you think?
I looked at that list, will put it underneath here, what concerns me is that i don't see many witnesses which are currently in the top 20 so i am afraid he doesn't vote on them because it gives him more chance to be in the top 20 :-)
seriously you'd base your vote on banfield's vote?
and he's on top 16?
I can't believe what's happening now
it's very annoying to find that out!
That is not really what i said @englishtchrivy. I will not make a proxy-witness-vote for banfield as i see he is almost not voting any of the top 20 witnesses.
But i do give him a witness vote as i think he knows how to sell and market stuff and i am happy he has all his attention on SteemIt.
am sorry if I mistook it as so
who you cast your vote is none of my business
but imho .. selling and marketing Steemit is the one reason to qualify as a witness we'd be doomed cause then anyone may just as well run as one cause aren't we all doing that already?
edit : and maybe you should read the comment of @public-eye and the rest below
really? have you heard of his shenanagins of late? selling registration service, taking public info and trying to sell it for $200. Then when people remove their vote because of his questionable actions he doesn't say "Hey, let me earn your respect back." He just removes his vote from them(even though they are a witness without similar questionable actions. He just gets payback.)
I know he is a good marketer. And steemit is his current prime platform. I'm just not sure that it what he can do for Steemit, or what Steemit can do for him.
Maybe I'm wrong. !?
You are not wrong, you are spot on.
registration service to what?
Voting ring?
Nah, he's talking about the recent $50 steemit account registration debacle that Jerry pulled, then apologized for in flames, claiming he didn't know about anonsteem etc, until somebody, I think it was ATS-David or someone like that, pointed Jerry's post out from a month prior talking about none other than the anonsteem he claimed he had never heard of when backing his ass out of the 50 dollar reg shame.
Sometimes one might deserve a second chance.
I fully support you! I understand the difficulty of wanting to do projects that help people while having a lack of self marketing/energy. While so many others are running on self interest and profits that help fuel marketing the their self (and gives them energy).
Everyone is loud (chaotic) on social media, steemit is no exception. Just make sure you ask for what you need and make post like this more often. It is good that you connect and remind people. You are up against some people who post multiple times a day. No shame in making quick post to remind people of how they can help support your project that in the end helps supports them too.
The general rule about witnesses on Steem seems to be:
"Trustworthy, technically skilled, self-promoters", chose two.
I thought similar. So either two are not enough any more, or I got outpaced in one of them.
I don't see how all 3 can't be possible, I hope future witness are teams of people who can do all 3 of these and more.
Possible, to some extent, though not as a general rule, and yes, in future there would be no other way to provide reliable witness service without having a strong team by your side.
But @transisto, technically skilled and self promotion are historically exclusive. Developers are famous as non-marketers or even shun it (i tend to fall here, I can do it, but it feels so icky and all)
If i was good at it, I would have long ago been trying to take advantage of the fact that you once had a conversation with me, and somehow turn that into a promo opp to get your vote on my witness and my worldwide blockchain based charity foundation effort, right?
Speaking of which... ;)
Just kidding, hope you are well. I see that you have been supporting utopian and the wordpress steemit developer both, and given what we DID talk about a couple months back, I'm really glad to see both got on your radar and got your love :D
Hi.
For sure, your have my vote.
As a a new witness, I'll take a moment to translate your post in French in order to share your message and your work to the community.
We don't have many SP but I hope your will return in the top 20 as soon as possible.
Thank you for your great work here on Steemit @pharesim!
You have my vote @pharesim. It is good that you made a request for support as I had been meaning to look into voting for a witness, but just hadn't got around to it. I am fairly new to Steemit and hadn't voted for a witness until now.
Question, anyone feel free to answer this. It says I have 30 votes. Are the votes I do make more powerful if I don't use them all? Or does each vote have the same exact power?
All the same
Created this post.... give us some graphics we can use to promote you .... https://steemit.com/witness/@offgridlife/vote-pharesim-for-steemit-witness
@pharesim You got my vote on all my accounts. I noticed that you mentioned that you sponsor meetups. I have been trying to set one up in the eastern Idaho area for a while now, and have had no success. Could you point me in the right direction on just how to organize a successful meetup, please?
Meetups are definitely where it's at. How many steemians do you know in your general area? Have you tried a "test post" to see how much interest there is in your area. Even if there are only one or two others, I think it'd be worth it.
I know one Steemian that lives about 120 miles away...don't know his name though. I have posted a few times suggesting that any Steemians that are near me should get hold of me to organize a meetup, but had no success. BTW I am just west of Twin Falls ID, by about 25 miles.
First step would be creating a group at Meetup.com and promote it here. If you don't know anyone from your area yet it might take a while, but the probability is high that at least a few people will show up over time.
Suggest just ordering waters until they show up, to keep the tab low :)
On Meetup.com I meant :D
heheh, oh, my bad :D hahahaha
I was hoping I could help add a boost. But I am already voting for you. I know you are incredibly dedicated to this platform. You have earned a spot at the top. I hope you get back there ASAP.
To everyone who is reading my comment here: Please vote for @pharesim as witness, he is really doing a very great job for #Steemit! Here you can vote for your witnesses: https://steemit.com/~witnesses
You get my full support @pharesim , witness voted long time ago.
@pharesim you def. deserve to be right up there with the best. Thanks for your support!
I got your back, just gave you the @buildteam vote which proxies all our projects, seems you moved up a place. Thanks for always supporting me.
I have been voting for you since day 1... you are a truly great witness who puts what is best for steem first instead of quick profit and I know you could just be making tons of money on private projects.
It can be weird and unconfortable to constantly "sell" yourself as a witness, I know I dont do it much either and therefore I have been dropping in ranking as well... But is something that has to be done I guess.
Thank you @chitty for all you do.
If one is unaware of what the contribution is...then how can one know how to vote.....perhaps someone would be interested in interviewing the different witnesses....or perhaps a ghost writer could begin an introduction to witnesses behind the scenes report.
bleujay tries to stay informed by following the different witnesses....however the information is slim to nothing especially when there are changes and Steemians want to know who support the changes and why.
All the best to you. Cheers.
You were one of the first guys to curate my craziness on here. Thanks for that.
Looks like you got moved up if I am not mistaken. Thanks for the great things you do to get steem to the moon.
See, this is what happens when I stop using your dice service. You start losing money and I can finally keep my own money.
We appreciate your work for the community. We hope you will continue your job for this great platform.... we found your services always best and your R & D (Research & Development) give the platform a better shape ... thanks @pharesim for all the good works for us hope you will continue your efforts ...
Its not begging dear @pharesim ! You deserve the right to ask for votes . You are doing great here on this community. You desreve place on top !👍
Upvoted as a witness ! Now you on 22 and will on top 10 soon !
I can't (and won't) pretend to know what goes on in the background of Steemit.com but you have my vote and thanks for the work you do. I'd rather see someone like you doing 'stuff' behind the scenes and know that the witness I'm voting for has the platform at heart as well as in mind when anything is developed.
Thank you. I appreciate your work.
Wow!
I didn't know you were a witness
I have voted for you
Thank you for all the support you have given me in the past
I don't understand a lot of this but I saw you were well rewarded since you have joined the platform, in some projects you lose and in some you win.(and, in general, you won so much compared to others) that this complaining thing....I had only voted from one person as witness(as far as I know because I don't understand a lot of this): Jerry Banfield....I tell you why I voted for him: He was a successful youtuber when he joined, he attracted his followers on youtube to steemit, he invests a big portion of his gains in facebook ads to bring people to steemit, he has a very good attitude, he is genuinely humble and good person, he was unsucessfully flagged strongly and insulted and whatever and he didn't even complained....he keept posting.....his wife joined the blockchain, invested 15000$, was highly insulted and flagged...and he kept a good attitude...Attitude is everything....This project advances if good hearted people are in power......that's the most important: having good hearted people around: in your work, in your life, wherever. Free market is good....you spread your votes because you are too busy with other projects to be choosing how to invest your votes in other way, not because you are a very caring and good soul..... you follow Curie and other things that, in my opinion, are bad for the platform because they only vote for their friends.....it's only an image of goodness and fairness but it's a very very very very very bad project for the platform and you support it. Technical skills are important but you were well rewarded for it.....you have a loss probably because of your Pevo project that is YOUR AMBITION, YOUR DREAM, it's not to help others and I think has no future because the real scientific research will be done in garages or hackingspaces, biohacking groups, etc, with little or no funding.....because research institutions are corrupt. In other projects you make a lot of money, you have a gambling project that didn't require that much of an effort but you made a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT with it......and it's ok...because free market is ok....I don't make money here but I don't complain.
Wow, so many assumptions, I don't even know where to start. At the top is a good idea I assume.
I don't want to engage in a discussion....I may agree with what you answered about PEvO....about all the other things I keep my opinion but, as I said, I don't want to engage in a discussion....Curie is not good for the platform, in my opinion, free market is good, posts and users are what keep the whole thing running....if there were not developers between users probably they would have to hire developers by themselves for nodes, etc, but it would still run.....maybe in a different way.....Everybody is necessary...and it's good there are all kind of people between top witnesses...that defends the interest of all users and not only developers' interests.
"I don't want to engage in a discussion"
You should've said this right away to save both our time.
I was not being a hater....I was speaking my mind and my heart...You face my opinions as a hostile act and further I don't want to be exchanging arguments forever...you asked opinions, I gave mine.....Peace!!!
you made a 500.000 USD worth account in 1 year....of course it's a lot of money....you don't see many users making that amount.
As user, I prefer 1000 times this platform to be runned by people like Ned or Banfield than by people like you. I want this to be an awesome place, not a crappy place......You asked for honest criticism, I gave you mine.(It's what I really think deep in my heart) but you were not happy with criticism. Nobody will tell you what I told you because you are a whale and they want to be your friends...everybody will tell you you are the best person in the world and, by what I saw, it's what you want to be told...not the truth. Not all things can be expressed verbally but I have very good instinct for some things. People like you, that are focused and able to get things done and can make it very well for themselves are dangerous because people sometimes think because they have that ability, they should be also very good at seeing the big picture and telling the way to follow for others and then, people like you convince themselves about it. Dedicate yourself to develop things and let politics to people like Ned. Trust me......Good people are guided by God....If good people run the platform, this will be an AWESOME place. God bless you!!!
Good luck to you :) let me know how I can support
You were one of my first witness votes and remain there for myself and all the folks who proxy through me.
I hear you though. I was on my way up the witness ladder and made it into the low 80s then fell back into the 90s, all while picking up up new voters (little ones) - the thing is other people are passing me up, because they spend more time self promoting, I guess. I rarely post and when I do, its about my projects here on the block chain. I tend to spend more of my time in the discords making things happen and getting things done than I do posting and talking about them effectively.
So not all your downtrending is losing votes, sometimes it's other people just picking them up and overtaking us.
I struggle on. I could, can and do accomplish some serious good for the people of the the world with the @YouAreHOPE project, and continue to do so, but the witness income and position I reside in could help a lot to further the visibility and viability of the YouAreHOPE Foundation's worldwide humanitarian goals.
Keep on keeping on @Pharesim and you will always have my vote and those of 15 or so proxy voters I carry with me.
Friends need a post from you, so that we can give them resteemed, vote, upvote friend @pharesim .
great content!
Happy to support your witness with my vote @pharesim! Everyone out there on Steemit needs to be voting for witnesses if you haven't yet! They are crucial to our platform!
Well sir it's great to know that you are supported all the small good content and the project you had started is also seems great we I don't know much about steemit . But I know that you work here with good intentions .
I got you now, I didn't realize that my vote wasn't even assigned until I double checked...
Keep up the good work, hope all goes your way !
Thank you!
I'v not been around long enough to know who does what @pharesim but am anxious to click the links above to see some of the things you are providing. Will find my way over to vote the "witness" because as busy as you must be, I still see your name in various places so I know you spend a great deal of time in the pond community also.
Appreciate all the efforts of those working to make the world a better place. You have my vote!