RE: Question for all my followers...
You've a point here... but from those 900 active followers that haven't vote you as a witness (and surely they haven't voted almost any witness) are new in the steemit community?. I want to remark this because the steemit platform isn't easy to understand for newcomers and there are many things to learn about block-chain, markdown, cryptocurrency, STEEM, SBD and witnesses.
When I came here to steemit almost 2 months ago I tried really hard to find a place to belong, I'd found it I've learned a lot of things...yet I haven't used all witness votes (only 13), I want to use them but I don't know which other witness deserve my remaining votes... So I'll do a research in near future.
It would be easy just to choose someone as a proxy but if I do this I'd would like to know which witnesses I'll be supporting and what they do.
The thing is that the witness-vote-system is not very friendly for new users in my opinion and it catched my attention because is not like the active users/followers don't like to support witnesses maybe the just don't know enough about the platform and how it works. Almost every newcomer just vote for the witness(es) from his/her community and don't try to look further than this. It happens that in the discord server I do chat the most (@reveur) we've a really nice BOT which you can ask for the info of every steemit user, and I've seen a lot of this
Has votado - You've voted
Aun te quedan - You still have
And I'm talking about members which have more than a few weeks on steemit... So maybe they aren't informed enough about the witness duties and how to support them and the importance of using as many votes as possible. But I'm sure they would give you their support if you ask for it in a straightforward way from time to time just like you're doing right here in this post.
I really like the work you do (you’ve done), you’ve helped so many people of my country, Venezuela. Thank you very much for your hard work. I still have many things to learn tho but you count with my support!... I’ve already voted you as a witness but it would be better to choose you as a proxy? Which witnesses would I be supporting if I do that? Sorry for my ignorance…
Best regards from Venezuela.
Well... you make good points and you ask the right questions. Good stuff. @nnnarvaez is doing fine work in there and beside me in YouAreHOPE. We have done work in seven countries now, but Venezuela is where it all began for me here and caused me to found YouAreHOPE in the first place.
I've helped thousands of users come on board here over the past 9 months and been a big part of many communities here in terms of educating people about what's going on here, so I can tell you that you are right, new users have no idea what is going on with the whole witness thing for sure.
To see who I, or anyone else votes for, look us up on steemdb.com or my preference, http://steemian.info/witnesses and click the menu option for witnesses->who votes and you can put in my name and see who I vote for, https://steemian.info/whovotes This information is available at a bunch of other different outlets too.
@clavismil if you want you can prepare a witness master class for STEEMaprende, check the links @sircork sent you visit them explore it is a nice information tool made by another witness @drakos, if you still have questions feel free to ask here or in the discords, i can show you how to read the info.
You are right about education i used to make posts about it and i explain a lot in @reveur server when we are chatting but i avoid advising any of you to either proxy or asking your guys to vote for this or that one.
I can easily add to the discord bot the list of witness voted for, what i really aim to is to make you discover and understand the importance of using your power to choose, not delegate it.
Now having said that i do proxy my vote to sircork because i trust him and we where voting for almost the same guys anyway.
But i did my research and chose first.. I think it is important for the developpment of quality steemians that you get to see first who represents you...
I can give you as i did the list of those i support and tell you why, but i can be liying to you... It is important that we do our homework, because when we stop having an interest on who is making the decisions we are failing our Commitment as steemizens and surrendering a right in having a say in the direction and gobernance of the platform.
It might sound strange i discourage you to use a proxy especially you have chosen around 25 witnesses on your own, it might serve and support our cause that you set any of us as proxy, and help both do more...
But i don't want that at the expense of the duty and right to choice.
Exactly the point isn't to teach the new users to use their witness votes blindly but use them wisely, So yes... I totally want to do a STEEMaprende class about witnesses, in fact I thought about doing a post related about this a few days ago if you remember @nnnarveaz... but I realised I couldn't do it alone at that moment I was needing to study more about the witness thing (and I did read the witness posts that Narvaez posted long time ago), therefore, I'll do it with help of the @reveur team the next friday and I might bother you with a few questions.
So the solution will be to teach the newcomers about this (and for the old ones remember . Hoping they will understand the bigger picture and try to look further, do the respective research and decide which witnesses to vote and why (at least 15 votes or more). And this call we probably will have to repeat it often since steemit is growing pretty fast...
@sircork thanks for the website, very useful. We've some common votes but for my remaining votes I'll do my research, and find for witnesses which do similar works/projects like the ones that @YouAreHOPE and @reveur promote, and the witnesses which make of steemit and the block-chain a better place for both, spanish and english communities.
Clavis i am jumping in because first i realize you are wasting your time in the English team translating small stuff, you are ready to be posting in English, and that steem aprende class (when we schedule it will have us there to help and support you)
We are starting every tuesday 6pm EST a broadcast of 3 witness in a row...
I would like to invite you to joins us, we start in Spanish with me and then patrice takes over and corcky closes... on @steemstarnetwork
Or sundays @sircork has steemizens of steem where witnesses drop to speak with the crow and share their views.
Being there will be great for you, and we need people able to write in both languages to help us make the point.
Oh that sounds really nice, thanks for the invitation I'll be there... And I don't mind to do the translations, it will help me to improve my english redaction skill :D