RE: OUT OF DELEGATION PHASE CELEBRATION AND SBI CONTEST "THANK YOU ECONOMY"
I actually just found the Curation and Engagement Leagues list and you've been #1 for 5 weeks! That is amazing, with almost 1000 comments in a week.
On the Bots, I see both good and bad. I'm not real fond of the downvote bots, I can see where they could be good but I also see a lot of abuse and just flat out mean stuff going on. I could probably pull off coding a bot, I'm not particularly fond of coding though. Just to be honest, nobody really needs to do much coding many of them are available on GitHub like @yabapmatt's postpromoter bot.
I have actually been toying with the idea of setting up a witness server or two. I've asked a few questions of some of the witnesses who had posted about their setups, one had posted a setup pick or two. I could handle the hardware and management side fairly easily, I bought installed and managed between 1 to 2 million in servers, storage, and networking gear, and the witness setups are just a few thousand dollars. I haven't dug in too deep to check out all the details, like vesting etc. I probably need to read the steemit white or blue papers.
The part that would bug me is the political side, getting the witness votes, I'm not the greatest at playing politics.
I think it's bedtime lol, almost 4 AM and I have at meeting at 8.
howdy today @coinsandchains! wow what a rich comment so full of interesting topics. From what I can tell the job of many of the Witnesses being Witnesses is a full time job so I don't know if you would want to get that involved in it would you?
I mean, you have so many other things going on! If anyone can manage all this, then it's you but I don't know how without sacrificing on some of your other endeavors.
And this statement.."I bought installed and managed between 1 to 2 million in servers, storage, and networking gear" are you saying that you actually spent 1 -2 million DOLLARS in those things? so you are independently wealthy? lol I hope so but that threw me for such a loop when you said that!
not typical for a redneck!
the politics of Steemit, I haven't heard anything about so who knows? I'm glad you're not a politician, I vote for coinsandchains then!
thank you sir for the fantastic comment!
LOL.... Well, unfortunately, the 1-2 million was other people's money that I was spending. I have to admit that it, is the strangest feeling when you are signing Purchase Orders and contracts for a couple hundred thousand dollars. Most of the really large ones the CEO sign or at least sign-off on.
whoa!! @coinsandchains..that's a feeling of some weight there, some power and responsibility right? that's awesome. and that happens alot?
lol, it used to when I worked at the hospital, now other people buy what I spec out, then I help them install it and configure it.
It could get hectic sometimes.
thanks @coinsandchains but now I gotta ask what you did at the hospital?
I started in maintenance as an electrician, working on their electrical naturally, but also their building automation system, tube systems, fire alarms and other low voltage systems. They found out I was a computer nerd and I moved into the IT department, the IT director bailed a few months later, they said tag your IT. So I made director in a few months, then they created the CIO position and I got a new title.
The IT in the place was lacking a good bit, I took it from the bottom of the hospital tech world to very close to the top. We made the Most Wired list 2 times, which means out of the 5000 public hospitals in the country our tech was in around the top 350 or so (varys a little each year.)
whoa!! that's amazing man. you are so versatile. so why aren't you working there anymore?
That's a really long story... short version the CEO got in trouble got fired, so they put the retired administrator of our smaller hospital in as the CEO. He was pushing 70 hated technology, and we had been telling him what to do for years. The COO made it two weeks, the CFO made it a month, I made it 5 months. I don't do politics, I just call it like I see it. They paid me 6 months salary to go away and keep my mouth shut. That was 2 years ago this month.
It was a blessing in disguise, I make more from home than I did at the hospital. With a lot less stress and relatively low responsibility level.
It was a little weird for me, I had been on-call with one company or another since I was 22. That took a lot of getting used to, pretty much 18 years of having to plan everything around a pager or phone, and how quickly I could get somewhere.