RE: Talk Channel: "Comment or ask a question"/ Comente o pregunte (week 271) in the WOX
Where do I begin...
I'll start with my proposal - there's still soooo much to do. I also find the 3 lines of edit box annoying - even on Desktop. It doesn't need to be this small so I don't know why it's been set like that. I'd like to change that too. (One of the first things I do when replying is to make the box bigger! Which I don't think you can do on a mobile).
In the top right burger menu, there's an option for "Steem Proposals". It links to here.
This is all of the available proposals to vote on. Voting on the post doesn't vote for the proposal. That's done with the little green arrow next to the current vote total.
Hopefully that's what you wanted to know!
Making Polls
I'm assuming how this worked before was not embedded in Steemit. I remember @starlord28 delivered something a few years ago. If he were still active, I'd ask him but he's been quiet for a while now. It looks like this was his last post on the subject.
Witnesses
Hmmm, this is always touchy. There are some GREAT witnesses who aren't in the top 20 and some who in my opinion, definitely don't deserve to be there.
The current barrier to "normal people" becoming a witness is the requirement to run a witness node. This requires a level of technical expertise and more importantly, expense (approximately €40 per month I believe) so unless you reach the top 20, you're paying for very little benefit.
I do have a voice amongst the witnesses but obviously not the same weight that a Top 20 witness will have.
I'm amazed that I saw this mention after just 3 hours. I usually find them on Steemworld but unfortunately, some nob heads have spammed the hell out of it!!
Perhaps it would be unreasonable to create a community witness, and a team of common users could be given the opportunity to support the expenses generated by the witness function, until reaching the top 20 (a difficult thing) in order to obtain the necessary resources. The roles would be varied, some technical, others fulfilling the advertising role.
I've seen that steemchiller has been working on producing a much cheaper way of running a witness node - for something like 20% of the cost. So it might soon be something that doesn't require a huge amount of funding.
Say, I have all it needs to run a witness node (the hardware, software, fund, and else), then what to do? I just run the node and try to be in the top 20? Thank you. But, hey, I thought you were a Witness.
That’s exactly correct. You don’t even need to have written a post to be a witness if you can find a way to get the votes.
I see. Thank you.