RE: A call for action for all of us (Regular Steemians, witnesses and Interface creators)
I noticed you unapproved me and with that, reading your post, I know that we failed. You hit it on the head when you said "others are probably doing great things for the community but I don’t see it". If you don't see it = I fucked up. When the contributions of any given witness aren't evident, there's a problem. My team will take this as constructive criticism going forward.
I'm not asking you for a reapproval just because I replied to your post, don't get me wrong. You're not a whale but a smaller vote that's given thoughtfully matters more than a vote given arbitrarily even with a greater weight.
"Project really have to advertise themselves to others to know who to vote for as a witness"
It's not a matter of 'advertising' but a matter of utility and application. If a project is beneficial to you, you'll know who the witness who runs it is. If a witness added value to the blockchain, you'll know who they are. Anyone can boost any project to the top of Trending and witnesses have done that with intro/update posts. Didn't amount for anything in the end if there was no utility or follow-through.
"The removal of the vote was pure selfish!"
You don't need to justify your voting practices to anyone or feel guilty either way. You don't owe any witness anything.
There's no "witness crisis" and won't be. As a witness that knows the majority of other witnesses personally I can tell you with absolute certainty that the majority of us are not in it for the money and are used to running at a loss. We just budget well, power down when we have to, power up when there's a surplus, etc etc. There's been several good witnesses that stepped off but typically there are other factors involved, not just the ROI.
@guiltyparties thanks for the reply, which did gave me some more insight!
Just by replying to your post, I do know in which type of categories your witness account belongs. My vote casted to you was based on the things you did for a steem like platform.
Since the beginning of this month, I constantly running over my witness votes, trying to figure out if the witnesses are worth my vote in my eyes! Yours was removed because I still need to find out what the Guiltyparties does for the steem community! And because of this reply I am forced to do find it out. And I am glad that I need to to do!
Please do so. I am not targeting or blaming anybody. When I did have the discussion with another witness, I was the one to blame. I was the one casting out witness votes, sometimes based on names or other factors.
Also it is a 2 way communication channel. We can broadcast and receive. But never I did ask to a witness why they should deserve my vote.
We, the regular, steemians have a duty to vote for witnesses, that's my opinion. And lots of us aren't doing this or are just casting the votes away. Which is fine by me and is their right to do so. But I want to have my votes based on solid reasons. The reasons I did write down in the post!
I am glad that you don't see a witness crisis coming.
I will reconsider my vote for the @guiltyparties.
Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Peter
I don't want you thinking that you're to blame or should blame yourself for how you vote man. That's not how it works. No user can ever vote in the wrong way as voting must be free of all influence in order to be really decentralized.
I saw you revoted us, I appreciate it of course. Was it a challenge for you to figure out what I'm contributing when you looked over my profile or no? I do want my presence here to be useful to others but if the projects aren't available and clear then I'm fucking it all up. There's no point in wasting time if it's not useful, get what I mean?
I see you man.
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