Thank you ! We tried to be as clear as possible, and if there's even the beginning of a misunderstanding (or a point that we didn't formulate accurately enough) please tell us, we think it is better that we clarify it now, for the sake of the initiative.
The next steps, as my colleague @sebbbl through @ivoted said :
- Posting our introduction post, to make the initiative know to the public,
- Posting the official launch post (detailing the functioning of the bot, the ways to enter the program - for witness voters, and the definitive version of the Governance and Policy rules),
- At the same time, launching the bot that will begin rewarding people for voting,
Then, in the longer term :
- Promote the project to get new participants and new delegators,
- Begin posting with the @ivoted account, according to our Policy : daily statistics, witness promotion, participants' priorities.
Can't wait to see how you're going to invite steemians to vote for witnesses. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for your continuous support.
The first step is getting users to know the initiative, and we count on the incentives (upvotes) to do that.
Then, and it will be the hard part, the goal is to transform this "attraction by greed" into a "genuine interest about witnesses" and that will demand a lot of work.
That's why the first form of the bot is going to be a "simple upvote bot", but that surely is going to change in the medium / long term, when we will find methods to reward only inquisitive people (maybe by proxying all to one account and then democratically vote on another platform - separating the good grain from the schaff - for the witnesses the account will vote for, rewarding much more active participants - voting and debating on the platform - then the ones only proxying to the account).
That's an idea I just had writing the answer, nothing more ! Don't worry if you don't like it ! Governance is here to assure we will all move in the same direction, respecting every interest.
But I think solutions will become clearer and more evident once the system is implemented, as we will have participating people and "leeches" (No offence, it's just the best word to describe the behaviour), we will have feedback and discussions with implicated people and this way we will be able to find a good compromise.