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!
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! :)
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:
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!
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.