Threw you a vote.
Here's the 22 witnesses I currently vote for:
@jesta, @roelandp, @someguy123, @anyx, @pfunk, @pharesim, @klye, @riverhead, @xeldal, @clayop, @roadscape, @smooth-witness, @lukestokes.mhth, @fyrst-witness, @witness.svk, @bacchist, @krnel, @arhag, @jerrybanfield, @blueorgy, @netuoso, @anarcho-andrei
Any suggestions for my last 7 votes? Saving one in case I decide to throw up a witness server, which I'm tempted to do after my failed mining rig adventure :)
Definitely add @swelker101, @drakos, and @sircork. All solid witnesses to vote for. I'd also recommend removing your vote for @arhag; that witness node is currently not running anymore, and I'd hate for you to waste your vote.
Thank you Andrei! I agree with your additions, by all means!
Cool, thanks for letting me know. Upvoted all 3!
i would also recommend @followbtcnews in addition to @anarcho-andrei excellent list.
Curious as to how you decided to vote for the people already on your list?
I've been posting on steem for about 15 months now, and most of those people are ones I've interacted with or known for that time period. The only ones who aren't -- @jerrybanfield and @netuoso -- are people who seem to be doing a great deal of work on the site.
I actually find Jerry's posts a little obnoxious, but nobody works harder, gives back more to the community, or advertises as much as him (pledged to give 80% of his witness profits to advertising), so I think not upvoting him is criminal. We have enough developers/coders that don't talk or interact with the users, we need more people like Jerry as witnesses. It's important to separate if you like a person personally from if you respect him and know voting for him is the right decision.
I came to steemit directly because of jerry and follow him elsewhere. He gets a lot of haterade here and on other platforms. But he just keeps going along - stumbling, picking himself back up, making money, helping the little guy, being relatively transparent, and changing course when needed. He has my full support where I can give it. I only wish I was so productive and try to learn from his example.
I've been here four months and voted for maybe 15 witnesses - idk. I feel like I should do more, but I have no knowledge of this place to decide who to vote for since I can barely format a post. I have other things that take priority than to figure out which rich, big fish deserves my vote for something I do not really understand.
I'm thinking of giving over my votes in proxy to jerry for few months just to get this task off my back. I realize that the average minnow does not even think of witness voting but I want to do "the right thing" within my limits.
Steemit has so many new concepts that I want to take a long nap.
Hi @daut44, I see you have mentioned me.
This is automatic response so that I may respond to your mention later.