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RE: Community Engagement Post - What do you expect from your witnesses?
3 primary wants from wintesses:
- I would appreciate a clear understanding of the witness's vision for the Steemit platform in the future.
- I would want an understanding of how they plan to achieve that vision with actionable and measurable goals.
- I want to understand how they're adding value to the Steemit ecosystem and community (e.g., X # of new accounts opened, raising value of STEEM) in the near and long term.
Another thing I'll add, but didn't want to edit the original post:
I don't want witnesses to necessarily issue long weekly updates. I think the long updates should be limited to important updates either monthly or quarterly, and monthly may be too frequent.
The other thing is that witnesses shouldn't feel obligated to push the platform in one direction or another so long as overall growth and innovative change is taking place. We need to keep Steemit and open and accepting place of free experimentation.
Well said. Everyone is trying to help the value of STEEM rise but there are many ways to do this and a witnesses long term vision for steemit is extremely important.
When I voiced concerns that in the near future, steemit could become saturated with SEO-like articles, primarily for advertising purposes and that regular people would have a much harder time getting their material seen, the response from a few witnesses was "Why do you care? Your account will be worth a fortune since you were here early on."
I would like to see witnesses who are more concerned about the environment and culture of steemit because this place is more than a money making opportunity for me and a lot of other regular users, whether they realize it or not.
Bravo! Indeed! And I'm sorry some of the witnesses gave you that response. Hoping @jesta @timcliff @gtg and others see this and take note.
I'll try to get to know these witnesses as well. Thanks for mentioning them. :-)
I love this one, clear and to the point of what I'd see to be the core responsibilities. I think this is the best answer here if I could just add that they need to be able to actually run the witness server and perhaps a seed too.
Agree, they certainly need to be able to run the blockchain well. Sort of a bare minimum requirement from my perspective.
I always felt someone declaring to be a witness covered these things in their starting witness blog.
Perhaps they should consider a monthly or a quarterly update that references these things if they have not been covered in a recent witness update post.
Totally. I wasn't aware of the starting witness blog, but if they can link back to it that would be helpful. General navigation around Steemit needs to be improved so that this would be easier, too.