Becoming a Steemit.Witness?

in #witness7 years ago

Hello all!

My name is Robert Carter, an American living in Cebu City, Philippines. This is my second account, created specifically for my witness server. My other account @rcarter has been inactive in blogging, as I have been focusing on becoming a witness.

I am 36 years old
Served in the Army for 6 years, with 2 deployments to Iraq (19D10)
I ignore news, religion, and politics.
Live a humble, and conservative life. I save 90% of all my earnings, and reinvest in myself and others.

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Why do I want to become a witness?

My biggest reason for wanting to become a witness, stems from the past elections we had in USA. (back when I was following the progression of one of the biggest political upsets of our lifetimes). During this time, I noticed a lot of media censorship-As well as a lot of fake and misleading reports, blogs, and articles on the internet, TV, and radio. Once I found Steemit, I realized this was the platform of truth that the world needed. A place where the community isn't censored, and polices themselves. Where we are held accountable by our peers, and benefit from creating original content-No matter how controversial it could be.

From here, where?

As a witness, living in the Philippines; I see a lot of people struggling to make ends meet. The minimum wage here in Cebu is 400 pesos per day (less than $8). Living here for 5 years, I can say without a doubt, that every Filipino I have ever met, has been gracious, and kind to me. I would like to give back to them, through Steemit education and support.

What do I intend to do about it?

I would like to make it my mission, to develop community teams here in the Philippines. In the military, we followed a chain-of-command, and I would like to implement groups that can adopt this leadership style. By having smaller, more efficient groups, it will ensure;

  • Better Communication

  • Keeping Steemit Underwhelming

  • Synergy Between Members

  • Increasing Productivity

  • A Familiar Support Network

For instance here in Cebu (to start), there could be one voted chapter Cebu Team President, one Secretary, 3 Regional Leaders, and 6 Provincial Leaders. The 6 Provincial leaders would be in charge of their teams consisting of no more than 10 active Steemit friends/family members. They would be responsible for holding weekly meetings to spark creativity and to promote Steemit in their communities through sponsored events.

What would my role be?

Since I already receive a fair salary from my investments, I intend to roll 100% of my Steem into SteemPower, and use that to kick-start these smaller groups by sponsoring coffee shop talks via giftcards. As the smaller groups become self-sufficient, I will be able to focus on another group. Eventually delegating the main Team Presidents, my SteemPower, so they can be in charge of using it to grow their communities.

If I can humbly ask for your support, in voting me for a witness, it would be very appreciated. No matter how many votes I get... I still intend on keeping my server online, to secure the Steemit network.

Step 1; open this link- https://steemit.com/~witnesses

Step 2; type my name rcarter.witness and click on vote :D xd.jpg

_Robert Carter

A special shout out to @someguy123 who helped me setup my Steemit server on @privex

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You know I will support you! Thanks for your help in sponsoring the upcoming Cebu Convention ;)

XOXO,

Gilaine

mishuhuuh girl!!! san ka na? punta na tayo ng Mars!!
I will support @rcarter.witness turuan natin sya "Gorabels" keribels" pak ganern!
hahahha
Upvoted followed!

@sunnylife natawa aq sa comment mo. Thanks for making my night.

hehehe ok olrayt! :):)

Awesome. I'm new here and I'm just learning about this witness thing and how it works. I'm voting you nonetheless. All the best!

I appreciate that, I have been helping behind the scenes for awhile now... And am now hoping to get more attention, to become able to help on a larger scale.

_Rob

I wish you all the best. I've voted you for witness. Keep up the good work. Thanks for replying.

We will always support you! upvoted you as a witness :)

Thanks for the vote :)

#savenemo

_Rob

Great post ! :)

oh wow!! I will support you!!!
Gorabelsssssss!!!!!

Thank you :) You are in Spain right?

_Rob

Hi @rcarter.witness!! Sunny is my good friend as well!!
As I said before, you have my vote!!

oh wow!!! thanks Papa Bear!! muaa

yes that's correct:)
I voted you last night:) good luck!
gorabels!!!!

Thank you.. I just posted to start thinking about setting up a witness.. id you start with the 16GB version or the 32GB version? I also want to do it for the community, but also to break even after some months... What do you expect to get per month after 3 to 4 months?

32GB is preferable to most, for upcoming changes that may stress the network a bit. Future proofing, I guess.

I paid for a 64GB on Privex (since they allow payment in SBD), and then I paid @someguy123 to set it up for me. A bit more than one would need so soon, but it was in a budget that I was comfortable paying.

If you will do it yourself, @someguy123 has a good guide here; https://steemit.com/steem/@someguy123/your-guide-to-setting-up-a-witness-server-steem-in-a-box-hf19

Best of luck!

_Rob

Oh, and TBH... I am not sure on the return-on-investment. I jumped in now, since I loved the recent whitepaper Ned posted.

Ok great, I hope you will receive a lot of votes.. I hope you would share some details with me after some weeks... I cannot afford a loss each month by running a witness.. So I want to do it but also need to have some value.. I just started 3 months ago on steemit.. and don't want to powerdown just for a witness server..

I understand that :)

We have to always help ourselves, before helping others.

Ask me in a month or so, and I will let you know how my server worked out for me.

_Rob

Thx rob.. I will.

Looks good @rcarter @rcarter.witness :)

Good luck good luck @rcarter.witness and @purepinay!

Thank you @dreamiely,

Did you vote for me as a witness? I could always use more support :)

https://steemit.com/~witnesses (If you scroll down, and insert rcarter.witness and click vote)

Thanks again!

_Rob

Done! Yay, happy to support you, too. Have you met @cloh76.witness, @steemgigs, @precise also?

I voted for them, but have not met them. I will pay for their flights, and hotels here in the Philippines... If they make the time to speak at the event.

_Rob

And thank you... Witness voting is 100% free, and you can always pull your vote if the witnesses you voted for, aren't following through on promises. :)

Oh wow, that is quite generous of you! cloh is in the US though (I think).

How was the (was it Thailand?) crypto conference you attended recently? Read your post on it and the 'dad' bit was quite hilarious. playing with 'em coins again

Oh, I thought @purepinay said he was in Manila.

And it was great, thanks for asking. I will be going back to Thailand with @purepinay in 2 weeks :)

I am sure she will have some blogs about it. Will you be attending the Cebu conference?

_Rob

Cloh flew back to US recently. Terry and Precise are both here though.

I'm not sure about the Cebu conference on November yet. I'll let you and @purepinay know once I've finalized my schedule. I know it would be awesome to meet the Cebu steemians! ^_^

Sure. And I am sure, if you needed a place to stay there will be many Cebu Steemians able to host :)

_Rob

Interesting plan for the Cebuanos. Upvoted and resteemed. Will vote you as a witness once I have access to my desktop.

Mabuhay!

Thanks @st3llar,

Although I would love to help on a larger scale, it is just impractical to try and help everyone, in a country with over 7,000 islands :)

I appreciate your vote!

_Rob

If anything for the benefit of Cebu community, I will support! :) You have my vote @rcarter.witness ! :)

I appreciate that @jassennessaj

Helping me, to help others. As I mentioned in my first blog, I will always use 100% of the SP received on this account to give back to my witness projects.

Hope to see you at the conference!

_Rob

Glad to have you as a diligent supporter of Cebu community. I also have mine, you might wanna check it :

https://steemit.com/steemit-engineering/@jassennessaj/steemit-engineering-update-shirt-sizers-are-ready-schedules-for-sizing-now-set-creating-a-better-community-for-engineers

All good for Cebu! :)

Nice job.

I think smaller groups for Steemit always work best. I love a big community, but think it would be more productive if this community split into smaller 10 person groups... Holding larger meet-ups monthly.

Even a Steemit/Cebu/Engineers could be a team.

:)

_Rob

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