People won't vote for witnesses until they (witnesses) start doing smth in return for voters. Let's compare this to elections. The elector who has best programme gets most of the votes and win.
What do You think?
People won't vote for witnesses until they (witnesses) start doing smth in return for voters. Let's compare this to elections. The elector who has best programme gets most of the votes and win.
What do You think?
This can be compared to elections indeed. But if you look closer, you'll see witnesses already have a program, they already do many things for the steemians, but steemians (well, most of them) don't even know what witnesses are... That's the reason of this project.
So the program is not attractive or beneficial enough to vote for :)
I don't agree. If people do not vote, it is first because they don't know the existence of witnesses. I've been here for 3 months, and I discovered it only this week. And I think if I were not as curious, I would never have heard about them.
Witnesses are already doing things for voters / users but it's not obvious from the typical user's point of view, especially if he doesn't understand blockchain and DPOS. The majority don't even know what witnesses are, like @sebbbl said.
The goal of the program is, by upvoting directly voters / users (providing an actual, visible, immediate reward for their implication), to encourage them to broaden their vision fo Steem and get interested in the participatory democracy it proposes.
Let's prepare a list then, what does each of top 20/50 witnesses do for Steemians. Would be interesting comparison.
It's planned, as such a bot would be ineffective without educating voters. Or at least his purpose would be defeated by people voting only to get the rewards (upvotes).
For me it’s kinda opposite. My vote is not effective but I’m check what they are not doing such as running a bid-bot, circle-jerk etc. They all does one way or another but I try to pick the ones who is not poking those into our eyes.
That's the pilosophy we want to promote.
But it's not possible to distinguish educated votes from "default" votes casted only for the rewards. But with some articles about witnesses, comparisons and such, little by little, we can hope more and more people will change behaviours and get genuinely concerned about who they are voting for.
Then vote for witnesses that are doing something for you, such as putting together projects that benefit you and support your personal investment in the STEEM blockchain or those who help ensure the blockchain runs as intended by testing code, etc. If you don't know what a witness does and can't figure it out just by looking them up, then they're clearly not doing anything except random updates about things that don't matter.