As many of you know, witnesses are the ‘miners’ of this STEEM blockchain. They record the transactions that occur here on the steemit platform (along with all the other platforms that run on STEEM like DTube and Utopian). The witnesses produce blocks, set price feeds, and educate us on the overall health of STEEM. You can check out the list of witnesses here.
I don’t understand all the technical aspects of a witness and that is why I have my geeky teammates @mellofello and @andykapps to help in researching witness-related topics and who we as a team BeeYOU should vote as witnesses. We are slowly reviewing the list of witnesses and determining who we should support with our minuscule SP worth. Our team BeeYOU will have some interesting posts coming soon on some of the witnesses!
Every person that spends time on steemit should be vested in who we as a community should vote for as a witness. These are the representative of our platform!
What is this contest about?
So my contest today will be on sharing your thoughts on witnesses. Tell us anything you would like to hear or know about our witnesses. Tell us why you voted for the witnesses on your list. Simply share your thoughts on witnesses and you are entered in this simple contest!
I will start off with the reasons why our team voted for the witnesses we did. I shared this comment on @abh12345’s delegation post and will do so here too with some slight editing.
Who are the witnesses we support?
We have voted for 6 witnesses as a team. Going down our team's witness list, in no particular order:
@steemcommunity – a new witness team to come onto the scene, announcement made 3 hours ago. This up and coming witness is a duo team with @abh12345 and @paulag.
Our #newbieresteemday community has been supported by @abh12345 from the very start, which is close to 3 months now when our community was established. Asher has stopped by our members’ blogs to show his support, host a weekly curation and engagement league, and is delegating over 1332 SP across the 8 members of our Newbie Resteem community that ranked in the top 11 of his community engagement league (out of 300+ contestants). If you've ever received an upvote from myself or @davemccoy and many of our team members, then know it is possible through his delegation to us. He simply has the community welfare at heart. Mello met @paulag from the blockchainbi discord room and is also impressed with her dedication to the community.
They definitely have our witness vote!
📌 steemcommunity is staying as a team vote for witness.
@timcliff - Mello is the first of us to have interaction with Tim. Mello read his posts, researched him, liked what he stood for, and outright admires him (that's an outright compliment coming from someone who initially thought steemit was a pyramid scheme). I read Tim's witness and ocd posts and like him too.
Tim has graciously agreed to have Mello interview him on a Q&A post so we can help our newbies learn more about Tim as a person and witness. We hope we can help our newbie community make an informed decision before casting their vote. He will be our first witness in our interview post series! We received his responses back on the Q&A, now just have to find some time to write an engaging post.
📌 TimCliff is staying as a team vote for witness.
@curie - I voted for curie since I have seen their support to the newbie authors (even veteran ones). It gives the undiscovered authors with beautiful voices and talent hope that their work could one day be recognized. I can't say I've seen any other support elsewhere yet. They have the community spirit at heart so my vote goes to them.
📌 Curie is staying as a team vote for witness.
@yabapmatt - Both Mello and Andy went to the steemit meet-up in our area and met Matt. They were mighty impressed with him as a person and witness (again, that's an outright compliment from these two who were never fully onboard with steemit until after meeting Matt).
Matt has also graciously agreed to having Mello interview him on a Q&A post, which will be after Tim. He is also supportive of our #newbieresteemday community when he learned of us.
📌 YabapMatt is staying as a team vote for witness.
@qurator - I voted for qurator since I am a member and they have shown support to the community. However, I would like Mello to do his due diligence for us before we commit to this witness vote as a team. Just because we are a membership club does not dictate they should have our support. I know they are involved in supporting their members, but I haven't done much research on them myself. I do appreciate their continued support because their 1.1 or 1.2% upvote value does help.
I've reached out to Qurator about a Q&A session with Mello. No response back yet.
❓Qurator is staying for now, but pending further review and research.
@steemgigs - Ahh, Terry. He is @surpassinggoogle for those that only know of his personal account name. He is a big supporter of the Phillipines and Nigerian community. Sadly, I'm not part of that community and don't receive support from him (he did hit us with a 1% upvote on my ABC's of Curation post and brought over his curation trail, nice!). Just because I'm not a part of his community does not mean I don't see the support he show others here on steemit. For that, he has my witness vote.
📌 steemgigs is staying as a team vote for witness.
Contest Rules remain the same as all the other Let's Talk! posts but an extra $1 SBD will be an added prize on this one.
❤️ BONUS Prize 🎖: $1 SBD to the most awesome comment. The winner will be selected by our BeeYOU teammates.
❤️ Prize 🎖: One (1) lifetime membership to @steembasicincome.
Second stipulation: I will pick an Active Member from the #newbieresteemday initative to send the $1 steem required for sponsorship. The member will be the person sending in the sponsor request to @steembasicincome for the winner of this contest. By doing it this way, I can help to support a member of the Newbie Resteem initiative along with the contest winner.
💛 Contest winner for the steembasicincome will be randomly selected by using this web tool: https://www.miniwebtool.com/random-picker/.
#newbieresteemday member winner will be my selection.
💜 Payout: Prize will occur at the end of this post’s payout.
Ready, set, share!
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Let's talk witnesses from @davemccoy
Beeyou signoff from @seaslim
Newbieresteemday giphy from @amariespeaks
Newbieresteemday banner from @jogreh
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on a side note i would like to throw @valorforfreedom in the ring. He is up and coming and is making a witness bid and his daily how to blogs really helped me get started on steemit as I had noone to help me but thanks to his well thought out and executed how to posts i was able to navigate the platform better. Putting his name out there is the least i can do to repay him.
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We will add @valorforfreedom as another witness to reach out to about our Q&A post. We are trying to interview the witnesses so we can have a better understanding of who they are as a person and witness.
One other witness that has given us a response to the Q&A is @jackmiller (thank you Jack). We just haven't had a chance to do our due diligence yet with our research. Also, @danielsaori is another runner up to being a witness. We will also ask him for a Q&A interview when he makes the witness announcement.
There are are so many on the witness list that we like, but have yet to research and do our due dilligence with them.
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@jackmiller has always been a really good guy to me. i would fully support him also.
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Thank you for the recommendation DDC.
I value that a lot.
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Thank you sir! I guess I would have to find a reason more so for you not to get my vote and support forward as witness, and what I have dug into recently I've seen nothing but great things. It's an honor to vote you as a witness and please keep up the excellent work on all fronts!
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Thank you too Cryptkeeper.
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Thank you for your support! It was great meeting Mello and Andy at the meetup and looking forward to seeing them again at the next one!
#newbieresteemday is a great initiative and I'm happy to do what I can to help support it. I don't have enough time to read through all of the posts and keep up with everything going on unfortunately, but please get in touch with me if there's anything specific you want me to look at / support and I definitely will.
I also like all of the different contests and promotions you are running and would like to kick in some STEEM or SBD as additional prizes.
Last, but not least - since this post is about witnesses, please let me know if you have any questions about witnesses, what they do, how the system works, or anything.
The witnesses are the most important part of the Steem platform. Without them the platform would not run. They make the final decisions about what changes get made to the platform and what new features get implemented or not. So that's why it's of vital importance that everyone, big or small, knows who the witnesses are that run the platform and casts their votes!
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Hey again Matt! I see that @beeyou tagged me again to get in touch with you! That is a very gracious offer to help us with different contests and promotions. I will talk it over with our people and see what ideas they can come up with, so thank you very much!
And I have a questions for you:
I agree about the fact that witnesses are important, and since we are all relatively new, can you tell us how our votes are counted? Is it one account one vote or is it based on SP or some combination of the 2? If it is based on SP, then could you tell us why you think it is important for us to vote (since we are so small)?
Thank you and thank you again for your generous offer! It is very nice of you and its also nice that you recognize what we are doing here! :)
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Feel free to reach out to me on Steem Chat or Discord about the contests or anything else.
Regarding witness voting, the more SP you have the more your vote counts, just like with upvoting posts or comments. So someone with a million SP has a vote worth the same as 1 million people with 1 SP each.
There are a couple reasons why I think it's still important to vote for witnesses even if you have very little SP in your account:
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Done, I connected to you on discord! Thank you for that offer btw...
And also I'm glad to see how you view it, I think both points are important but #2 is vital... Its good to know that you as a witness care that the newbies and minnows stay engaged!
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Hi Matt. I do understand the challenges of having a balance between steemit/real world life. Appreciate you stopping by! Thank you for your support on this post. :)
My sentiments exactly! Many of us don't understand the roles of a witness and are not knowledgeable enough to make informed votes. Our team are already researching the witnesses we would like to support, and thought it would be a good idea to share with the Newbie Resteem community.
EVERYONE, please feel free to ask any questions you have for Matt
Thanks @yabapmatt for graciously offering STEEM or SBD as additional prizes for our contests. This contest is more of an 'opener' to the ones we plan on having regarding witnesses. Those will be more interesting!
I am tagging @davemccoy, the tireless leader of our community. He will happily reach out to you about future contests and ways our community could benefit from your support. So so many of our team members go that extra mile to support newbies on here. It would be wonderful if we could find avenues to help both our members and the newbies that make it into our steemit lives.
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Hey @beeyou
I decided to come back after all. Spent Yesterday staying away from SteemIt, then realized life was pretty boring without you guys and gals :0)
As for witnesses, I’m not a very good researcher ( too lazy), so I guess it’s fair to say that my choises were pretty egoistic ones.
Of course I fully support @steemcommunity, the witness project of @abh12345 and @paulag. Asher is such a friendly guy who is supporting so many newbies. I truly believe they’re here to make the community a better place.
WhenI got hacked, there were so many people that really put up a personal effort to help me out in way or another. I know it’s their job to do so, still I’m highly appreciative they took all the time that was needed to get my account and reputation score back. So I definitely rewarded them with a witness vote. I’m talking about @patrice, @drakos And @guiltyparties.
@anyx is on the list too. However I don’t always agree with Cheeta policies, I still think he’s doing a great job trying to keep this place clean.
My other votes went to people who have provided tools I use on a daily basis. Without these tools, life on SteemIt would be a lot tougher.
@followbtcnews for Steemistry and more
@yapabmatt for steembottracker and the fact that he’s always willing to help out/give more info
@blockbrothers for Steemify
@dragousroua, creator of steem.supply
@stoodkev for his SteemPlus plugin
@samrg472, creator of steemdunk
Most of them have more projects under their name, but these are the ones that are best known.
Then, you’ve also got @curie, of course, and utopian-io, both for obvious reasons
I voted for @therealwolf before, but after trying to get an answer about something without getting a reply, I crossed him of my list
I vote and take away votes regularly. And since I saw @lynncoyle1 handing over the control to @abh12345, I must admit I thinking about doing the same thing. ‘Cos hey, what do I know, right? ;0)
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Well you appear to know plenty!! I plan on keeping an eye out on @abh12345 to make sure he's holding up his end of the bargain haha, but truthfully, this is one thing I'm happen to give up control over! I know he will do a great joy with my votes.
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However did I miss this reply of yours @simplymike? Thanks for stopping by and providing your insight on the aforementioned witnesses.
As for handing over control to Asher, it is a personal decision. I admire him greatly, but do want to support those I support only after my own research. I know he stopped supporting witnesses that own bid-bots, so many of the witnesses on your list would not be a supported witness. Only one I support right now with bid-bots is Matt, and I will continue to show my support there. He does want to show support to our community and I am not faulting anyone for being a bid-bot owner but heck, what do I know?
Life is boring without us right? Thanks for engaging with Mike @lynncoyle1! ;)
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No worries, @beeyou, there are so many things I miss, every day again :0)
I assume (but I’m not sure) you mean yabapmatt when you say Matt?
I agree voting for witnesses is a very personal thing. I can relate to Asher’s decision to not vote on bot owners. Everyone is trying his own thing to give bot owners less power. If only STINC would come into play and wipe them all out. Wouldn’t that be awesome? Content that would be rewarded by curators only? But it’ll never be more than a dream, I guess...
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Yes, I mean yabapmatt. :)
I plan on not writing posts until I catch up to everything, then something I read piques my interest and there I go, wanting to write another post when I don't even have time to respond to comments!
Ahh..that's another discussion topic there @simplymike. The chances of STINC coming to play is slim. I support the limit of rewarding up to 4 posts/day to avoid reward abuse (which they initially had implemented but then removed) but I don't see that happening either.
As for content rewards from curators...it would be the steemians with SP that would ultimately determine content worth right? And who do they support? Surely not the redfishes.
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True... unfortunately. So the system is just set up to not work...
Lol - I never thought of him as ‘Matt’ - from his username, I assumed he was Japanese or Korean or so.
Just clicked through to his profile to see his pic, and saw he had done the name challenge, hahaha
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Good idea @beeyou! I had about 15 witnesses chosen, 3 of which you mentioned here, and then Asher wrote his post a week or so ago when he noticed many of us on the Curation Leagues' list hadn't voted for witnesses. I added to my already-too-long to-do list, researching the rest to complete my witness votes, but never seemed to have the time to do it. The more I found out about @abh12345, the more I loved who he is and what he does for this community...all the selfless giving to support the League's alone led me to this decision: @abh12345 is my proxy!
It is not easy for me to give up control, but when I wasn't able to complete this task to the best of my ability, and I sure didn't want to halfheartedly tick off names just to get it done, I decided who better than Ash to complete the task for me. It was simply serendipitous that he announced that he and @paulag were running for witness today, although I had a little feeling that was the direction he was heading in.
So, for anyone reading this, who has no idea who to vote for, please don't leave your votes empty, but take my word for it and trust @abh12345 to complete it for you; he will complete it very well, I assure you!
(That last bit sounded like I'm working for his campaign haha)
I did however write a post about why I love @steemcommunity and @qurator as witnesses and why ;)
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Hey @lynncoyle1. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on why you love @steemcommunity and @qurator and why you have Asher listed as proxy. He definitely has the community at heart and will vote on great witnesses. For me and our team, we would like to slowly go through the witness list and learn about them before making a vote. There are so many good ones out there that are already doing a great job as witness, but still would like to do our due diligence.
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My pleasure @beeyou! I too believe in due diligence, but I just didn't seem to have the time for it :)
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:D
Thank you Lynn!
I'll do my best for sure. There will always be a few 'personal' choices in everyones witness list, due to perhaps something they showed you / gave you in the past, but I want my list to look forward and hold the community at heart. It will be tweaked as we continue into 2018 and beyond.
And of course, if you ever choose to remove the proxy then don't worry about doing so!
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Again, you're welcome Asher! I will pass along what @hitmeasap said to me after his generous delegation: "Just don't doing anything f*#king stupid with it" haha
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I would further echo support both @timcliff and @steemcommunity, they have helped or plan on helping our community. One witness you may want to look into is @ats-witness he is another that helps our community significantly and also helps other communities as well.
There's a few other witnesses I support and vote for, however.. Those are the three that are directly either helping our community or have pledged to in the future. So I would highly suggest those individuals and since you already have two of them listed, you may want to look into the third? :)
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Hi @apolymask. I appreciate you stopping by and providing your insight on the three witnesses that are supporting the communities. I have seen @ats-witness as a sponsor of your IFC contest and it is very commendable that he is showing support to the community. We have not had a chance to research him, but will definitely do so! I admire all witnesses that support the community in one way or another.
Yes, we will definitely look into the third!
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Glad to help! And glad you found the info useful and that you'll look into ats-witness.. He seems like someone who genuinely cares about the community and wants to help give back!
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I came across him on a curie post. Definitely on my next witness list to research! Thanks @apolymask.
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Cool. :) And you're welcome!
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this is great what you are doing here .. I have to admit .. I'm still a little unsure about how the witnesses work exactly - but it's good to see you connecting with witnesses since they are so influential on this platform.
Speaking of influential - you were very instrumental in helping to get my article curried ... sooo . So I got you two shares of Steem Basic Income in your name - I hope it helps you out some.I like being a part of Steem Basic Income and I can see that you are already familiar with it. I know that you have been a huge help to me and I wanted to try to pay back the favor in some small way. Keep up the good work!
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You did not have to sponsor me for two shares of Steem Basic Income @jorlauski! That is awfully nice of you. Thank you. :)
You wrote a great post that deserved to be curied. They do like to spread their upvotes and may not come around for some time since you've been curied several times. So write for the joy of writing which you are already doing with your great posts. You should use #ocd-resteem as the first tag for your quality posts. They also support great posts. Might not be as big a hit as curie but the support can be there if a curator comes across the post.
Our team hope to write more detailed posts about the technical aspects of witnesses, once we have time to research. As always, time is the enemy. :)
Thanks again! It really is sweet of you.
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tagging everyone that stopped by on my previous contests, just so we are guaranteed some participants :)
@lynncoyle1, @simplymike, @kismet2018, @malloryblythe, @smylie2005, @sweetcha, @amariespeaks, @artgirl, @seaslim, @plushzilla, @davemccoy, @keciah, @doomsdaychassis, @leeart, @roundhere, @youhavewings, @starthere, @simon62
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I'm also dropping your link in @asapers chat channel. There's conversations going on about witness now there too :)
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Cool Lynn! Feel free to jump in anytime and help comment. ;) I'm trying to make my way down, but I think I am done for day. How many times have I said this? Engaging is exhausting!
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Tell me about it sista! :)
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oh your tagging me my dear @beeyou thank you I didn't notice that it is a contest I wrote about qurator witness earlier here is my post link
https://busy.org/@sweetcha/shoutout-qurator-is-a-witness
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Thanks @sweetcha. I will add you to the contestant list!
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I have voted those witnesses above because I believe they do make this platform a better place. They support quality contents and at the same find and develop talents. They also help support newbies.
I support who you support because what you do echoes what they do, creating a good and positive ripple effect.
The first witness I voted was @surpassinggoogle because he was the first one who gave noticed and kept upvoting my contents since then. He has also developed a platform called @steemgigs where in you can showcase your talents for a price. A service in exchange for service is on the making.
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You are simply amazing and thank you for this thoughtful comment @leeart, I support who you support because what you do echoes what they do, creating a good and positive ripple effect. 💗
I appreciate that you are supporting the same witnesses. I feel it is important to know some of the witnesses on here so we can all make informed decisions on who we choose to vote as our witnesses. The list will definitely not stop here! Our team will continue to add on to the list as we learn more about the other witnesses out there.
I admire @surpassinggoogle very much for all he does for the community. If only I could be part of the Phillipines and Nigerian community! Gosh darnnit :) In all seriousness, he truly is awesome and is very supportive. I did receive a comment upvote from him once on my personal account when I first started out. I was amazed to see my first $2 comment upvote. At that time, I was lucky to see $0.01 penny.
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As there are more and more witnesses, I hope that it is the answer to make the quality of this platform better. I think the witnessing is in all of us too. It starts with us how we want this community to be.
I appreciate every vote I get. However, it is @surpassinggoggle's votes that push my earnings to at least $1 lol! Then the others followed along.
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Yes, I love that outlook of yours @leeart. It does start from the smallest refish to the witness whales out there.
It is good to see him helping so many out there. That's why I'm a strong believer of paying it forward, sharing with others and also giving back to those that helped us along the way.
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@surpassinggoogle is a mentor @steemgigs is his witness and I'm a big fan of he.
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It's no surprise that a lot of people loves him because of how much dedication and undying passion he has to make his vision realized.
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I’m so glad you shared this Team @beeyou! I have not yet voted for any witness. I just haven’t educated myself enough to feel confident in my voting! I finally feel like I have a decent grasp on the basics of Steemit. It’s time for me to get engaged in the voting of our witnesses! I’m really falling in love with this community. It’s the right thing (just like voting in any election) to do if you want to make it the best it can be! There’s no whining about where it ends up, if you don’t make your voice heard, right? Thank you so much for putting this out there. It’s a great start for me. How many witnesses do we need to vote on?
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I'm in the same boat. I haven't completely understood the whole concept, so I hadn't worried about it yet, but it's been sitting in the back of my mind for awhile now. I'm ready to cast my first vote now, if I can work out how to do it.
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Hi @viking-ventures. My post is more of an intro post to get everyone's thoughts on witnesses. If you read the comments, there are many like yourself on here. Some that know a tad more about witnesses than you do, but we are all still learning. We'll have future posts that will explain witnessing more in detail. A future contest will be with us helping you cast your first witness vote! You can wait to make a vote then, or if you are ready now to vote for a witness, let me know. I can walk you through it.
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I can wait then. And thanks for your posts on this confusing subject. There's so much to know on Steemit - a steep learning curve (or perhaps steem learning curve!) - it's going to take time to catch all the little bits on it now that I've got the basics down.
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Right on point!! Get that active key out and make your first vote @pretty.dorky! Really, take your time to learn about the witnesses, who they are and what they stand before you vote for one.
We've had many of our newbie team members ask about witnesses and who they should vote for, so we decided to start several posts introducing some witnesses to everyone. Those will come out soon.
We can vote for a total of 30 witnesses. We can also unvote those witnesses at any time if their actions don't align with our own beliefs/thoughts.
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See, look at you... Always giving out helpful advice to others... That's why I am a proud @beeyou fan and happy to have her in our membership club! She is always energetic and encouraging, and lots of fun to everyone! :)
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You got a 100.00% upvote from @bearwards courtesy of @unleashpower!
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Not sure what my vote will do, but clicked an up for all.
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Hey @jan23com. I am glad you decided to make some witness votes! Your vote does matter. We are all small now but it won’t always be the case. Our SP will grow as we continue on this platform. I like to think of it like our upvotes. Add up all the penny votes and we get a dollar! If we all take interest on the witnesses on top, our small SP combined will matter.
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Im just adding my two bits to thank the #newbieresteemday group for helping me in the past. I have had @curie notice a few of my posts and upvote the heck out of them which I greatly appreciate. I am not really sure what this contest is but I am mainly writing to say thanks.
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Hey @bigskycustoms. Thanks for stopping by and appreciate your kind words. Your posts on your hobbies are awesome and I was happy to see that curie supported you as an author.
I updated my post to let others easily know what this contest is on. It's just a chit-chat contest to share your thoughts on witnesses, anything you want. Why you vote for who you do, want you would like to know about them..etc. You are entered since you mentioned curie. :)
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thanks, I get pretty limited attention for my posts unless someone like your group/curie take notice. I made a pretty detailed post yesterday about a figurine I finished but not a lot of interest, maybe it was too long. Glad to see I made the contest with my weak comment. :)
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Hi again @bigskycustoms! I bet newbieresteemday is where I found you... it’s all coming together.
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maybe so, are you affliated with that group?
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Yes I am! They adopted me. 😊
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We are LUCKY to have you! Jeff could be our mascot too. ;)
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I love Jeff too... He is very cool and I think keeps pretty.dorky in line... Plus I hear he throws a good birthday party too, at least that is what simplymike told us!
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A lot of newbies face the same challenge @bigskycustoms. Sadly, we are all small fishes and our stops won't help much, but the support is there! I stopped by and will see if resteeming from the newbie account will get you more support.
You can also let @pretty.dorky know if you have a great post you would like to have us help resteem on the newbie account. She is part of our wonderful ABC's team of the @newbieresteemday!
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thanks. @pretty.dorky has noticed our shared Montana location, and we Montanans stick together, so I am thinking she will be very supportive to my posts,
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I have not voted all 30 of mine yet, but I have added a few over the last month or so. The first witness I picked I believe was Tim Cliff (@timcliff), and the reason was pretty simple, when I was but a newbie a big bad wolf came after me, I asked a simple question, and was pounced on like I was meat. They chewed me up and spit me out, and I thought that I would shout. I asked why and Tim helped me. The flags were more of a psychological shock than any real damage but Tim help fix the damage they did.
Since then he has accepted suggestions from me, even stupid ones and has always been nice about his replies. he has also helped me on other occasions, and I have seen him help other new users out. I doubt that I will ever unvote him.
@anyx, Cheetah builder, Guard builder, steemcleaners leader, she, (I think she a she), is a one person, (in case she is not a she) protect the people force to be reckoned with. She believes a lot in steemit, and keeping it clean.
@arcange, I do not know a lot about him or his blog, what I do know is that he tries to treat people with respect, and he hates scammers. You will often see him in the same areas and on the same post as Guard, warning of and fighting scams.
These three are my top respected witnesses. I have tried to be very careful about who I selected as witness, and I will adjust one day. I of course selected @steemcommunity as one.
edit:13 minutes after posting. I no longer have witness votes, trying out that proxy thing, so you have to ask Asher who I vote for now.
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Hi @bashadow. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on some of the witnesses. I hope the big bad wolf is not a witness himself! That would be a shame if someone misuse their power like that. I’m glad Tim helped you with it.
The other witnesses you mentioned are also ones we like but we just want to do some due diligence research before committing. Looks like you now have a full witness list!
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Yes, I did not have the time to do a good hunt for witnesses, so since Asher has helped me and I trust his and Paulag's intent, I gave my proxy to Him, so that all my votes could be used.
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Good for you. I'm going to go through my witness selection slowly.
As for handing proxy to Asher, I said the same thing to @simplymike.
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Thank you for informing me about @steemcommunity. I've just voted for them. I always loved @paulag's awesome statistical posts. For me witness votes are not fixed. I always remove and add new witness vote based on their contributions to the platform. I have less SP than you so my vote may not matter much to them but I think it my duty to support them that are doing good for the community.
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That is great @reazuliqbal. It is important to keep an eye on existing and new witnesses. Glad you made room for a new witness to cast your vote! Your SP does matter even though you don’t feel it does at the moment. I believe everyone big and small has a voice. We all have to add our voices in despite our SP being low. Take a look at yabapmatt’s comment on top, he explains why everyone matters, irregardless if you have a gazillion or very little SP.
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Thank you for replying. Yes, collectively all small votes matter but for now what matters most is a vote from @freedom. Take a look at Steemreports. Also many small SP voters vote up the top witnesses because they are on top of the list without proper vetting. But recently I saw people are talking about roles, actions, and contributions to the community by witnesses more. That is a start may be.
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Hey @reazuliqbal. Apologize for the late reply. I will have to admit that I will never catch up on my replies.
Yes, freedom is the ultimate determinant of who becomes what here on steemit. It really is hard for newbies to understand how their SP vote worth matters when you see such a big account like freedom that could ultimately decide the fate of this platform. We do what we can right. Or jump ship if we can't do anymore. ;)
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Not a problem. You receive lots of comments and I can imagine how hard that is to catch up with all of them. Yes, you are right. We can only be honest to ourselves.
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Thanks for understanding. :) I said I wasn't going to make a new post until I catch up on my replies, but then I went and made a post a few days ago, hehe. I haven't even responded on that post!
Steemit is a full time job of its own and that is the truth!
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Yes, it is somewhat full time job for me as I have a lot of free time. Though I do not post or comment a lot, I spend most my time reading people's posts and developing tools on top of the STEEM blockchain.
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I'll have to find out what tools you've developed on here. I have two teammates on here that are just exploring steemit. Both smart as heck, one a programmer and the other a BI dashboard engineer, but they are both still learning about steemit.
My professional background is in IT, but not nearly as technical.
As for posting, we are in the same boat with not posting much. Although I do try to do so weekly at least so I can build some SP. Comments...well, I can't help but comment or reply when I talk with interesting people. Just that it may take me minutes or days to get back, depending on how busy I am with the real world. Speaking of the real world, I really should get back to work. I don't make nearly enough or any on here to pay for my daily cup of coffee! :)
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Gosh my post for the witnesses has been stuck in limbo for over a week now hahaha
I tackle the importance of voting for witnesses and keeping yourself informed and updated and see who are active witnesses using the steemian.info/witness by @drakos.
It has all the information that you need to be able to make an informed decision on what the witnesses do, what projects they have and if they are missing blocks.
So with that I can change my witnesses as I see fit thus ensuring that I am a responsible Steemian who votes for witnesses that I believe in their advocacy and what they want to do with the Steemblockchain.
I have made full use of my 30 votes although had to change one today to vote for Ashers and Paulag witness.
This is a great contest to spread awareness.
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That’s great that you are active and are staying informed on the witnesses @maverickinvictus. Being responsible is important if we want to ensure the success of this platform. We are a team acct but still find it hard to find time to do our due diligence. It really is time consuming to learn more about the witnesss. There are some we like but have yet to learn more about them. We will get through that list one day! Have to think of it as being back in school and doing some hw. Like starting with the scientific method by asking the first question of why I should vote for this witness. Then doing some research and finally formulate a conclusion. I swear, I thought I was over with school and research stuff when I graduated college!
Hope you get around to writing that post soon! We have a series of witness posts to make too, but haven’t had a chance to write them. With writing too, I told myself I would never write again after I completed my masters. Lol, look at me now.
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Took me awhile and finally I was able to post it and somebody will be collaborating with me on doing all the witnesses because I don't think I can do it on my own haha
Week's worth of reading posts, looking at witness plans, and checking if they are active or not and not just on processing blocks but all in communities.
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Nice Mave! I stopped by to show my support but will have to find time to read it and comment. You did a good research job, very similar to what we planned on doing too! I’m glad Matt stopped by to show his support.
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Mav is great... And yes he does a terrific job.. I think he is a major player on here one day! :)
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You got a 48.75% upvote from @payforplay! Please consider delegating steem power to @payforplay. We are currently sharing 100% of our profits with our delegators. That's correct, 100%! It doesn't get better than that. It is essentially running your own bid bot without doing any of the work. Steem power can be delegated here: https://steembottracker.com/delegation.html
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You got a 20.66% upvote from @sleeplesswhale courtesy of @unleashpower!
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Hi there unleash. :)
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Good for you for being proactive about getting out there and figuring out what each witness stands for. I don't really know other than what I've found out from talking with some of them. Looking forward to your findings.
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Will post what we research! There is just too many things to learn and makes it harder with the limited time we have in the day. Mave made a witness post too if you want to take a look at his research @themanwithnoname.
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How is the witness project coming? Is it something that will others can help you with? I know many think you already do too much, so if you want others to pick up the ball we can work on it ;)
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You got a 100.00% upvote from @bearwards courtesy of @ilovepoorpeople!
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Yes, some people could have helped engage and respond to comments. I recall a conversation on this matter with someone who thinks faith will always find a way.
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Voting for Asher as a witness was my easiest witness vote of them all!
It is also the only witness I do know a little bit and I do support @Steemcommunity because they really believe that interaction is the most important part of the steem ecosystem!
The others witnesses I did vote on, where based on the tools they did deliver. It is like giving back something to them for the usage of the tools!
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Hi @fullcoverbetting, voting for Asher was a no brainer for me too. He was one of the first individuals to show our community any support. Not only that, I admire him as a person too. As for the other witnesses that develop tools, yes, anyone that invests time in making this platform better is definitely worthy of a witness vote. We just haven’t gotten around to looking at them in detail. On the list!
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There are 3 options, don't vote for a witness, vote for a witness or if you really do believe in a witness vote for them and spread the word! Every mention of their witness project could help them. I am all in for interaction and there are too, so I will do everything to give them some more exposure.
Did mention them, in my last 2 posts. And requested if they could create a banner!
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That is great you want to show support with a banner! Btw, congrats for making it to the top of Asher's engagement league. Great going!
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Thx, was a little bit surprised not to be in the top 5. It has become amazing how crazy people are commenting!
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i like all of them. @timcliff is a really good guy and he has my personal vote. I am in support of all of them mentioned. I thought about seeing if i qualified for the @qurator but it didn't look like my posting style fit in their strict guidelines so i didn't waste both of our time. i am glad to see that the group is gaining more traction.
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If it makes you feel any better @doomsdaychassis, they said NO to my first membership request. I think the requirement was to be on steemit for 2 weeks and have at least 10 posts. I didn't meet the 10 posts..but who knows, it could have been my lack of quality too! Their membership fee increased too...try it. They will send your membership fee back if you don't qualify. That's what they did for me. I tried again couple weeks later and got approved, but that could have been because Dave put in a good word for me too, hehe.
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i might give it a try some day. I am more worried about powering up my account right now. I just don't want to part with 4 steem right now in a trade off for 0.04 sbd vote once a day. it would take like 100 posts for it to pay for its self unless i optioned up on it.
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Awesome post @beeyou. This is really great for those of us who don't fully understand the voting process yet. This is the first post that I have come across that helped it make more sense to me. I will be doing some of my own research but I will also follow close behind the @beeyou team because I believe that you all have the community at heart. Not only that, I want to support whatever newbieresteem supports and this is great for that.
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Hi @magicalmoonligh. I'm happy to hear that you will be doing your own research! I believe we all should do a little digging around. For instance, I admire one witness, but he doesn't support another of my witness. It's just a matter of which witness resonates with us. Thanks for following along with our team and I hope we can share more information with everyone soon!
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Thanks for doing this. I never know what witnesses are what.
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Hey @profanereviews. Soon, we hope you can spew out all the names of the witnesses you support. Then you can't say that anymore. :)
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One named Yehey, but I don't know who he is. I didn't even know what a witness was when he was asking for votes. I should look him up I guess. The other one is @justinadams He seems like a good guy. How many can you vote for? Oh and now @steemcommunity after looking them up based on your post.
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I have no clue who Yehey and justinadams are, but can add to the list to research. Steemcommunity for sure! Asher has always been supportive to our community. I wouldn't hestitate one bit with them. You can vote for 30 witnesses and change your witness votes at anytime.
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Hey@ilovepoorpeople! Welcome back with your new tag-lifter tag. You were missed. :)
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It is always nice to be missed, so I'm sure @Ilovepoorpeople is very happy to see he is greeted by the famous newbieresteem cheerleader! I know I always like to see such a cheerful face and a great spirit always giving a pep talk!
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You got a 25.38% upvote from @sleeplesswhale courtesy of @unleashpower!
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Famous is subjective to opinion. How about pouty?
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haha... famous, pouty... they are all the same thing :P .... No worries Miss Famous Pouty Cheerleader, everyone loves to see that pretty face welcome them back :)
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You got a 50.00% upvote from @payforplay! Please consider delegating steem power to @payforplay. We are currently sharing 100% of our profits with our delegators. That's correct, 100%! It doesn't get better than that. It is essentially running your own bid bot without doing any of the work. Steem power can be delegated here: https://steembottracker.com/delegation.html
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This is awesome that you post this now. I too, along with a few on here, dont really understand what being a witness is really about. I have voted on Qurator being a witness because Im a member as well but I dont really know what its all about but thats the only one! With that being said, I fully trust you and everyone at @newbieresteemday and know your hearts and minds are in the right place. I know of most of the witnesses you guys already support and Ill fully support who you guys support! Looking forward to seeing the Q&As so maybe I can understand a bit more about what it all is!
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Aww @smylie2005. Thank you for putting your faith in us. It really means a lot. I know my team and the rest of the members of @newbiresteemday are trying to learn as much as we can about witnesses so we can share with everyone else. We hope to provide as much research and information as possible so everyone can feel informed about whether or not they want to vote for a witness.
The Q&A posts will be out soon! If only our teammates could get ourselves out of this writing laziness. :)
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Great initiative @beeyou! I love learning more about steem witness' and this seems like a great way to get to know more about it. I love the chart you put link to! That show's lots if not all of the numbers. I just don't know what they all mean! Like is 'missed blocks' important? Or what's priority in running a good chain?
I have personally interacted a little with Klye. He seems great. And, he popped over randomly to support two of my post which was a welcome suprise!! I also interact with @exyle. Who is part of the @blockbrothers group. He always votes comments on his daily posts. I enjoy his take on things. And, he has replied my posts occasionally. At this point i have followed my friend @lynsaybowes lead in witness selection for the most part. But, just want to stay up on it. Learn more & choose those that are positive and involved with the community 💗
Keep up the great job with this initiative.
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Hi @yogajill. To be honest, I don't completely know what the chart means myself! Lol, that's for my geeky teammates to figure out. From what I gather, missed blocks is important. I think it may be an indicator of how they are running their server for the STEEM blockchain, but don't quote me on it. Good question which we will find out!
I've seen those witnesses you mentioned on the trending page. Haven't had a chance to interact with any of them, but will definitely keep them on our list to check out. That is great you have a witness guide with Lyndsay. I follow her too and she is also a steward of the #stewardsofgondor. She rocks!
Definitely a good idea for you to learn more about the witnesses too. Every now and then, a new witness will come into the scene that may not be on top, but definitely worth our support because they have the community at heart.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughtful comment!
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Likewise! I really appreciate the effort you're contributing to this endeavour. It's so needed!!
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You are simply the sweetest. Thanks for the mention in Asher's post. :)
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My pleasure! Thanks for spearheading this op! Let's get this Witness thing figured out 🙌💗💙
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I learned a lot about the topic of voting for witnesses. Thanks @beeyou!
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Great @freedomshift. This post is just an entry to witnesses. Hope you will continue to learn about them so you can stay informed and vote for the witnesses that align with your own beliefs and values.
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Gratitude! I'm not informed enough yet to fully understand the witnesses, but this has brought me one step closer.
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Thanks for stopping by @alexstacy. Feel free to ask any questions you may have about witnesses. We will have more witness information coming soon, so be sure to stop by again.
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I'm really very impressed with some particular witnesses and now its time to complement them, I feel deep love and then voted some witness I really like. Thanks for the contest. loved it! @beeyou
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You wrote a great post on your witness selection @steemit-fairy, especially on your top two being @steemgigs and @blocktrades. We will have to add more onto our list too!
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@beeyou thanks dear for your appreciation and as a new I only experience these two best witness who always support me, sir @surpassinggoogle is the owner of witness @steemgigs and my friends and fellows getting good opportunity from steemgigs platform, you also should try it :)
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I have not voted for witness yet because I don’t know enough to make an educated selection.
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Thanks for being the first to comment @sapper11g. I know how important it is to be informed before making a witness vote. Feel free to share your thoughts on what you feel you should know about a witness before making that witness vote. Either way, you are entered into the contest!
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Well I don't know what steembasicincome is but maybe I will join too. :D Am thinking maybe I should tag people to join my pet/animal contest too. Haha.
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Since you are here, give some thoughts on witnesses so I can add you to the random steembasicincome raffle.
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Yeah I thought of doing that too but I haven't done it yet. I joined three contests yesterday u know. Hahaha. Aside from one long post. 😂
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Why have you not done it? What is it that you haven't done, voted for witnesses?
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No, haven't done the post abt witnesses. Was out during the weekend.
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Not a post, just reply back with some thoughts on witnesses so I can enter you into the contest silly. Anything will do.
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Ah really?
Well now. If it's just a comment then that's easy. I have voted for 12 of them, mostly those who I use the sites they made like dragosroua, steemgigs, busy.witness, mahdiyari, followbtcnews, resteemable, ura-soul.
Those I voted for being curators: ocd-witness, curie.
Yehey for a being Pinoy witness that I first knew about, aggroed for the minnowsupport, and jerrybanfield for being kinda adorable and helpful in his vids and for doing the supernatural contest. Lol.
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