Why you should vote for @themarkymark as witness

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago (edited)

Many (most?) witnesses have decided to let things play out more and act of backstop (prevent SBD from falling below $1 USD) instead of a peg to 1 USD.

BIAS has been suggested and a few use it, I don't feel it's time to do it, it would require a very large bias to counter the amount of pumping is being done. I am not ready to suggest creating more SBD.

I'm ok letting it play out and see where it goes for a bit longer and just keep it from falling below $1 USD if we need to. The increase in SBD has in return pulled STEEM up significantly. Forcing it at this point, especially with the current market conditions can have a dramatic effect on the price of STEEM which possibly could take a long time to recover from.

I do value highly a stable pegged asset though as commerce depends on it.

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buggedout (68) · 7 years ago

Thanks for your answer. For what it's worth (probably not much) I think the many (most?) witnesses are taking the easy way out and shirking their duties. I understand we have a strong ideological slant toward anarcho-capitalism amongst the powerful here which is part of the collective decision to do nothing about it.

As you say yourself, it would require a large bias to counter the pumping. So a small bias would have the effect of rewarding authors (the real creators of value on the platform) without crashing the SBD.

We also need a stable pegged asset for commerce. We lost it and are in danger of falling further behind in the market cap rankings. Curation incentive is also now dead. But we overlook these things for short term gain of a temporarily pumped SBD.

Anyway, I'll cut it off there so I'm not ranting at you. Thanks for the time you took to reply.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago (edited)

For what it's worth (probably not much) I think the many (most?) witnesses are taking the easy way out and shirking their duties.

I think a lot of witnesses have thought about it and actively chose to do nothing, and a lot are just not here to care. So it's a bit of both.

So a small bias would have the effect of rewarding authors (the real creators of value on the platform) without crashing the SBD.

I think authors are being rewarded pretty damn well already with SBD being so valuable.

We also need a stable pegged asset for commerce.

1000% agree with that, I put a project on hold because of that. Witnesses just were not given the tools needed to accomplish that effectively.

Anyway, I'll cut it off there so I'm not ranting at you. Thanks for the time you took to reply.

You should ask questions.

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sajumiah (47) · 7 years ago

you are very lucky
please follow and help me

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sonny.dharmawan (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Just voted.
This community need more witness like you @themarkymark

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Thank you :)

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allcapsonezero (61) · 7 years ago

If I could vote twice for you I would. You'll be top 20 in no time.

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brettcalloway (57) · 7 years ago

I'm going to vote for you just because of your Firelfy Profile Pics. One of my favorites of all time!! So depressing it was cancelled!!

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gmuxx (67) · 7 years ago

You already have my support.

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enolife (56) · 7 years ago

I am passionate for Steem and the Steemit community. I spend a minimum of 8 hours a day on Steem and Steem-related communities. I am not a fly by night or absentee landlord witness. I am here for the long term.

After going through your narration of your impression about steemit when you first landed here, your comparison of steemit to reddit and how you finally decided to stay on this community, improved and add value to it, I salute you and you've won my respect

I'm definitely giving you a witness vote.

Thank you so much for doing and putting your best and time into this platform.

Happy Steeming

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4 votes

tayecrypto (25) · 7 years ago

follow back and upvote....thanks

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isnochys (66) · 7 years ago

I wouldn't say, my posts are thrown into a black hole. Because there you could at least measure the hawking radiation. And with my posts one couldn't even measure that:))

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charitybot (63) · 7 years ago

Lol, if the net energy of a system is zero, then at least someone on the other side is reading them!

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isnochys (66) · 7 years ago

Or someone is using my strings in my Postings for different purposes.. dundunduuuun

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cryptokemon (42) · 7 years ago

yeww keep climbing brother top 10 in no time

tecnosgirl (66) · 7 years ago

I am sorry @themarkymark I can't vote for you twice, you are already one of my witnesses. <3

tayecrypto (25) · 7 years ago

follow back and upvote....thanks

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sajumiah (47) · 7 years ago

thank you
You see your comment, I'm forced to vote,
I wanted your cooperation

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francisxxx (24) · 7 years ago

You Got My vote :D

jfolkmann (60) · 7 years ago

Thanks for doing all you do. I've used the buildawhale bot a number of times - helpful for us minnows if you hit it at just the right time. Anyhow - I dropped my vote your way. :) Thanks again.

sajumiah (47) · 7 years ago

you are very nice meaker

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jibi333 (40) · 7 years ago

Hey Mark I voted you for Witness :)

pjau (63) · 7 years ago

You seem to have your head screwed on, you got my vote man! :)

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

I'd hope so, it would be super annoying to have to carry around all the time.
Thanks ;)

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pawos (62) · 7 years ago (edited)

you deserve my vote as a witness, @themarkymark! with best greetings from germany.

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Thanks :)

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sajumiah (47) · 7 years ago

excellent comment boss

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fourfourfun (55) · 7 years ago

We’ve had a couple of interactions on here and I always value the time others take to hit the keyboard back at me.

I’ll go press an up arrow when I’m on a computer.

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

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samirich (60) · 7 years ago

Wow, you've done so much to promote the community and help so many others. I wish I'd come across you much earlier. I'll consider voting for you as my role model.

kryzsec (59) · 7 years ago

@themarkymark, you have had my vote for a while and I am going to keep you as my vote. If I had the infrastructure I would have started my own witness but I do not currently have the ability to do so so I kind of look to you as a role model.

I enjoy the fact that you actively fought for the steemit community.

A suggestion for your community vote might be to vote on the steemstem distilled (kind of like your buildawhale community digest in that it shares the best posts curated by steemstem)

Either way you will keep my vote.

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Thank you :)

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sajumiah (47) · 7 years ago

thank you

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kryzsec (59) · 7 years ago

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mejustandrew (58) · 7 years ago

Hey there! I like the idea of a global blacklist for spam and abuse accounts to be removed from voting bots, this is a thing which could help a lot this place. I appreciate also your efforts and the way that @buildawhale is built.

I just have one question for you as a witness I guess. When you say

256GB ram on SSD

What do you mean?

I have never met the concept RAM on SSD. Is it something that I am missing or it is just one machine that has 256GB of RAM and also the rest of the hard memory on SSD?

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Should be 256GB Ram and SSD, thanks ;)

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mejustandrew (58) · 7 years ago

Oh, thank you so much for the clarification, I was scared that it would be possible to be there a huge concept which I am not ware of in this technology topic. I feel better now :))

Thank you for answering so fast, I didn't expected it. This makes me even happier that you are one of the three witnesses I have voted for by now :D

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kenseikid (40) · 7 years ago

Im still relatively new to steemit, how exactly does the witness process work and whar is it for?

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

A witness primary job is to produce blocks as the system is delegated proof of stake and not proof of work. (There is no mining).

We are also responsible for maintaining a price feed that is used in many internal systems.

Witnesses also have a few tweakable parameters we can change and have a say in the consensus-driven final setting. These are:

Steem Price
SBD Interest Rate
Price Feed Bias (affects how much SBD is generated)
Block Size
Account creation Fee

That's the full job description, but many witnesses do a lot more than that and act as community leaders and trusted advisors.

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jordanlove (43) · 7 years ago (edited)

i thank you on behalf of the society to always put much effort in steemit,,you really deserve a vote from @jordanlove as a witness,i'm gonna resteem this post so that my friends also get know this,,

feidi (25) · 7 years ago

Good

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dromzz (57) · 7 years ago

Well, I just joined and I don't even know what witnesses really do. Regardless of this, you really made yourself stand out from the crowd and I gave you my only vote so far a few days ago :)

https://steemit.com/witness-category/@someguy123/seriously-what-is-a-witness-why-should-i-care-how-do-i-become-one-answer

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

It's an old post, but it is a good post that explains it.

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dromzz (57) · 7 years ago

Thank you!

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jlordc (69) · 7 years ago

You had me at

Never take a reader's time and attention for granted.

Voted for you! :)

rondras (61) · 7 years ago

@themarkymark Thank you for this overview of where you come from and what you do for the development of steem. You got my vote. I am currently trying to set up a bid of a different bidbot which would be very profitable for high quality content but negative for low quality content. But I still have not found the full documentation on piston which I need. I am not a professional programmer but passionately learning and experimenting. If you know where to look I would be glad for any help. Good luck for your campaign.

black.alien (21) · 7 years ago

upvote here and get yout last 5 posts upvoted

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7 votes

diegoash (25) · 7 years ago

interest

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shashiprabha (66) · 7 years ago

i join steemit teem i fill good i promote it.

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youngjerv (54) · 7 years ago

Very inspiring journey and i have learn a lot of new stuff from this article thanks much for the share

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racer1 (48) · 7 years ago

Hello! Mark @themarkymark
Nice to meet you
I voted you for witness 👌👍
You deserve it Mark
I'm new here and im really happy to meet you
If you have time
Please go through my wall and support me mark
Thank you :-)

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Thanks

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racer1 (48) · 7 years ago (edited)

Welcome bro ☺☺

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jjohnson78 (44) · 7 years ago

I have been following you since day one. do you got my vote and upvote, as well as a resteem!

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daemon-nice (50) · 7 years ago

Quite honestly I am not exactly sure if I understood much of what you wrote but I did get that you are passionate about Steemit(yay) and that you are here for the long term. Me too, mind you I don't always have eight hours in a day to spend on Steemit, but it has become my go-to social media, I find it addictive. Now if only if I could get my 4500 Fakebook friends to join and vote me up. Nah, most of them do not deserve a social media like Steemit. Out of 4500 friends I have probably unfollowed 4400 of them, lol.

I like blogging and writing in general, if anything, I have to be careful of being too verbose. But I agree it is important to not waste a readers time and to make reading your words easy by spacing out your paragraphs. I can't stand seeing words all bunched up into a blocks-long single paragraph that fills an entire page.

Anyways, before I bore you to death.
You got my vote.

Peace
@daemon_nice

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sajumiah (47) · 7 years ago

thank you dear
useful comment
up vote you
please upvote me

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wellyerfyanto (44) · 7 years ago

Finish for upvote your witness...can you tell me how to join in your discord. I hope you come to my blog.

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shortwait (30) · 7 years ago

Done and best wishes from a noobie from Australia. Cheers.

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muddasir1988 (25) · 7 years ago

Voted. Made me understand as I am new here.

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mishegas (43) · 7 years ago

Didn't read it all. Once I found this I didn't need to read more:

" I always hold to one ideal. Never take a reader's time and attention for granted. I always try to provide something of value to anyone taking their valuable time to read my posts."

Right. You only live one. Don't waste your time or others.

For this reason alone you deserve to be a Witness

And if I can post this after continual 'bandwidth' restrictions you'll get my vote

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mrkstn1 (51) · 7 years ago

Well you got my vote........keep doing what yer doing

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francisxxx (24) · 7 years ago

You Deserve our votes man :D

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lovenfreedom (64) · 7 years ago

Definitely got my vote. You got me at respecting the reader's time. I would also like to spend the money to build a node and be a server for Steemit. I believe my husband and I are in this long-term. He builds our computers and I'm a programmer. Followed you as well. Wow @themarkymark, we wish you all the best and you deserve great respect in this community.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

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dgcarlosleon (51) · 7 years ago

what good and detailed information, I really like this article good work

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ifyeze (44) · 7 years ago

Then you have it...my vote goes to you the markymark

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joshuaatiemo (57) · 7 years ago

Thanks for being an active member of steemit for the long term. You have my votes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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christopher35 (30) · 7 years ago

your post took my 30mins but it was worth it as i learnt to value readers time. a vote for you

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brayan0810 (32) · 7 years ago

Buen contenido

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racoo (48) · 7 years ago

I've already resteemed it,
@racoo

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umairshehzad (52) · 7 years ago

I am going to vote you for witness :)

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gnosticpete (25) · 7 years ago

You definetely have my vote. That was a very honest and sincere blog, from somebody with no intent but to help and find his way round steemit. Just like myself! Well done!

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mattclarke (68) · 7 years ago

Hi Pete.
We run a steem meetup on the last Thursday of each month, in the beer garden at the Jade on Flinders St.

Next one is on March 29th, from 6pm.
Please join us any time you're free, or hit me up if you have any questions.

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o07 (67) · 7 years ago

Hi @gnosticpete

Next Adelaide Steemit meetup is on Thursday 31st of May 2018!

6pm onwards @ The Jade 142-160 Flinders Street.

Further details about the meetup can be found here

Hope to see you there, have a great day :) Stef aka @o07

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andrejatosevski (48) · 7 years ago

Great text! Well done!

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three-d (41) · 7 years ago

You have got my vote. I am new and find about half the content is great content, and the other half ...well I will not go there

It also seems like the post get votes, especially once an audience is built, but comments have low vote count. I am not talking about the monitory side, but would like to see more effort in the comment hierarchy to know what has value.

--3D

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shiemarii (25) · 7 years ago

voted. :)

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godisgracefully (40) · 7 years ago

Well I must say, I have learnt more about this community from this post than in the last 2 weeks clicking around. Thank you

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faisalmakruf (35) · 7 years ago

very good

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punwik (44) · 7 years ago

Very informative and helpful! It's really cool to see how much work and development is coming on in the steemit community, for positive reasons! Without other users like yourself this would be so much harder to figure out, and Excel! Thank you for your time and your hard work!!🤘🔥

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danixmarie (46) · 7 years ago

Hey Mark, you got my vote :)

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duakhan (25) · 7 years ago (edited)

Really great effort, keep it up man.

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haseebjan (21) · 7 years ago

Kindly follow me for tech info and science blockchain technology AI technology. I will follow you back

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haseebjan (21) · 7 years ago

My vote is for your nice blog.
Upvote

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basicstoliving (58) · 7 years ago

I voted for you a while back. Thanks for your work on Steemit. I am still trying to figure out GINABOT. Keep on, Keeping on!

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haseebjan (21) · 7 years ago

You get my vote

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davinsh (53) · 7 years ago

Its the passion that you have that made me vote you as witness. I do not know yet how to be of an addition to the community as help. But Vote will be yours so that I can be somehow made something better for the community. Hopefully, I can contribute someday.

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thenewsnetng (25) · 7 years ago

A very nice piece... Voted

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just.jules (38) · 7 years ago

My thoughts exactly , too many spam and junk posts, its hard to find something interesting to read , mostly articles copied from somewhere else, i myself want to start blogging about food(recipes , guidance and general discussions ) and tough this may be the place , but seeing all the spam makes me doubt if that's a good idea , if there is even a little chance you and people like you can fix this issue you have my vote. I can feel the honesty in your words and you got my respect ! Wish you good luck on your way to the top !

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tnoval (39) · 7 years ago

I like your post

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cannavarocanva46 (40) · 7 years ago

Thank you for posting, My vote.

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vardy (46) · 7 years ago

this is a great post @themarkymark

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burakbkkn (38) · 7 years ago

please support me please :)

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lenaid (43) · 7 years ago

Your post is so inspiring and even if im stilk new it the steemit i was amaze on how passionate you are. I've read your previous post and gave me so much idea on what to do on my next post. Continue to be an inspiration to everyone and hoping that you will also guide us newbies. You certainly havemy vote!!!

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danielus (51) · 7 years ago

hopefully i'm not included in the blacklist ..

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ridwanmerdu (36) · 7 years ago

Amazing,,
Join me this.,,

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nicholas83 (56) · 7 years ago

A vote from me to you.

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grandeur (53) · 7 years ago

Thankyou sir @themarjymark pls follow me grandeur

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anav92 (25) · 7 years ago

😱😨

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leprechaun (56) · 7 years ago

It seems to me the demands of Steem might grow too fast even for RAM capacity growth to keep ahead of.

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jeffryphysio (43) · 7 years ago

I'm a beginner, some articles I've read also say about witnesses. but I do not know what the benefit of the witness is, please give a little explanation

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shainamarie (34) · 7 years ago

You got my vote man.👍

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cryptoknight12 (65) · 7 years ago

Why would you vote anyone as a witness... fo real doe

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iamoka (25) · 7 years ago

Awesome!

Nothing is far better than being the real you, in your words, your writings, your speeches, and actions. The world is waiting for that man or woman who takes up a challenge and turns it into benefits not just for himself or herself but the world at large. I am on a journey to influence my world, and I am not stopping until I see a brand new world.

@themarkymark thank you

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iamoka (25) · 7 years ago

Awesome!

@themarkymark thank you

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absary (25) · 7 years ago

succes my friend..

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faiez (43) · 7 years ago

You got my vote , you are a leader 😁

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mwesigwajulius (32) · 7 years ago

Good post. I am a newbie but I must say you inspired me to get to the top too.

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bassuniverse (47) · 7 years ago

You got my vote!

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teutonium (62) · 7 years ago

I'm new at all this steemit stuff but i've seen ur bot and some of ur posts, top quality content, i voted for u

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saifuddin73 (63) · 7 years ago

which is very useful for us who are beginners in writing specialy in steemit, greatly motivates us to write well, using steemit to convey brilliant ideas to the community, best regard @saifuddin73

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lovemenow (14) · 7 years ago

really good

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isai044 (28) · 7 years ago

tiene mi voto @ themarkymark yo soy nuevo en steemit y ando en busca de siguidores.....

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deleteme (34) · 7 years ago

Very good sales pitch, let me think about it :)

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universalpro (49) · 7 years ago

Very nice article thanks for sharing with us

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sakethkukkala (23) · 7 years ago

I just started a few days ago and now I am learning too what it is like to blog into this twitter-based thing. So far, it seems like it really is a lot of fun just to respond to people like you. If you really wanted to know, I'd vote for you too.

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mochalcany (34) · 7 years ago

Great!

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dafied.egie (48) · 7 years ago

Woooow amazing bradeeer

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davangarde (33) · 7 years ago

What I gathered from reading your post is that you speak in a genuine way.
I am new to this platform and reading your post kind of encouraged me to further pursue steemit and not give up just yet!
It is overwhelming a bit, and sometimes I feel discouraged.
The community is friendly enough though so I'll stick around ;)
You have my vote sir!

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