Hello community
It’s a good subject.
I’ve been a Witness for a while already. The votes that I have are not nearly enough to process even my very first block. So my servers are basically running idle waiting to be helpful to the community until more people take an active position and vote. I’m trying to be as good Witness as I can.
Does snybody here with unused votes for witnesses see my profile as a good candidate?
If you do, please vote.
EDIT: thank you for all those who upvoted my comment. Although by Voting I meant Voting for my Witness, which is different from clicking on Upvote. I guess some people probably don't even realize it. So upvoting my comment does nothing for the Witness unfortunately (for those who might not have known it).
Otherwise i cannot explain rationally how come this comment gets so many upvotes and not a single person Voting for my Witness. Maybe though I'll see some people Voting for my Witness today :-)
Thank you everyone in advance for your potential support and your Vote.
You had my vote from the start.
Yes thank you. I appreciate it very much.
It means to me more than just a vote.
When I talk about nobody voting I take your vote together with a few more out of that statement because we had a chat and you had a chance to get to know me better and when people can interact things become more personal and they can tell.
What surprises me is that there are so many people who never voted for anybody. Plus a lot of those who have a lot of votes still remaining.
Why don’t they vote? I’m not even talking about myself. There are lots of people who never voted for anybody!
I know there are some people who might like a Witness, upvote a lot of his/her posts. Yet for some reason don’t bother to do what’s so much more valuable for a Witness - to vote for them as a Witness rather than (or in addition to) upvoting some silly content.
That’s what puzzles me.
Also while upvoting my suggestion of voting for me people don’t cast their vote. Then it doesn’t make any sense to me. Why even upvote my pledge for votes? On another hand if they had a reason to upvote it why not vote for a Witness?
See what puzzles me?
Also doesn’t seem like a customary thing here to just vote for a Witness while everybody clicks upvote buttons on the content they like. Again it’s not just about me. It’s a trend.
Anyway thank you for your vote and your confidence once again.
If others follow it too would be wonderful. Gives the incentive and motivation to keep trying.
All the best!
Many aren't interested in participating at that level or taking the time to objectively research the witnesses. It's a pretty sad state of affairs all around and its ourselves with the responsibility to educate the user base. The learning curve to blog and process funds is steep enough as is. Worse than abstaining is blind voting since we've got witnesses now who think they're "mining" on the "steemit blockchain".
I'm pretty low ranking as well. Hard to get up there without supporting some of the flashier projects and being a yes-man. The way I see it is our responsibility is to the blockchain first and foremost. Keep at it.
Yes exactly. I’m with you on all these points.
I also don’t feel good about reducing myself to a sleazy salesman doing sales and marketing, promotion, advertising and buying votes as some others do or tricking others convincing them to vote for me.
On another hand that’s what this place is turning out to be otherwise there seems to be next to zero chance to be an active witness.
Those who are already there statistically very unlikely to vote for you because they all mostly vote for each other and it’s against their financial interests to vote for any “outsider”.
Other regular members just don’t bother until you push them. That’s exactly what I feel so bad about - pushing. It’s not how I do things in life and I hate being forced to do it here.
Then what’s the alternative?
I’ll do some research to see when is the average for others to just shut down their servers.
I also find it quite unusual for blockchain systems when only 20 top “miners” (so to speak in the general block chain terms) participate in keeping the blockchain up and running and distributed.