RE: Witness (update?) *AND* Community Support
omg, this is something I was just thinking about! It's so good to see that my thoughts are flowing along with that of the greater community. Yes, our witnesses should represent the community. In fact, I think the devs should be working behind the scenes through communities, perhaps getting paid by those communities to maintain the witness machines, but that the main decision makers should be the communities themselves. I love that curie is a witness, and I appreciate that you, to some extent, represent the interests of @freewritehouse. I'd love to see @freewritehouse as a witness, though I know @mariannewest and the rest of us aren't devvy enough to get the technical side down, but rather to have someone who worked for the community and managed that side of things while the community voted for the things that they believed were in the platforms best interest.
Does that make sense?
Indeed it does. Without the community aspect of this platform, it leaves people to flounder and wither and that's why I get around as much as I do. I want people to be here and try my best to show support to those that are here for the long haul and want it to work. Glad we're on the same page :)
Just going to brainstorm on this thread for a bit. If I were creating an ideal set of top 20 witnesses, they'd include:
At least one account from each of the 6 occupied continents
Accounts with keys held by folx who were not majority men
Accounts representing photography, writing, video, dev, economics, homesteading, gaming, and any other content-based communities with a significant population on steemit
Accounts run by people with varying amounts of time on the platform, and that there would be some turnover regularly, so new voices could get heard, but also so that people with experience would be able to guide the new ideas with wisdom gotten from experience