How Many Steemians Are NOT Voting for a Witness? I Found the Answer! by lukestokes

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How Many Steemians Are NOT Voting for a Witness? I Found the Answer! by lukestokes

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witness-category · @lukestokes · Aug 1 '17 (edited)

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How Many Steemians Are NOT Voting for a Witness? I Found the Answer!

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With the debates going on between ETH and EOS and the Bitcoin hardfork drama, now seems like a good time to think about how well Steemit's Delegated Proof of Stake governance system works as far as user participation.

@eeks <a href="https://steemit.com/eos/@dan/response-to-vitalik-buterin-on-eos#@eeks/re-dan-response-to-vitalik-buterin-on-eos-20170731t140147127z">asked an interesting question</a> earlier today:

> What % of Steem holders, by number, have ever voted for a witness?

I had to find an answer.

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**If you're not sure what a witness vote is, or why it's important, please see this post from a couple months ago: <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future</a>.**

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I couldn't wait to finish work today, read to the kids, and get them in bed so I could start hacking on this question. I decided to only include accounts which have been active (meaning they published at least one comment or post). I'm also just looking at witness votes as of today, not taking into account if someone once voted for a witness but isn't anymore.

Based on the code I came up with to analyze the blockchain, here are the answers I got:

<h2>Inactive Accounts: 178,339
Active Accounts with a Voting Proxy: 652
Active Accounts with at Least One Witness Vote: 7,233
Active Accounts with No Witness Votes: 105,076</h2>

So there you have it. Out of over 100k active accounts, only around 8k are currently voting for a witness. 

<h1>We Have 7.5% Witness Voting Engagement.</h1>

That's how much participation this governance system of DPOS truly has as of today, July 31st, 2017. I think it could be be better, but I also think it's the best system for blockchain governance yet created. You can't vote out a massive POW mining farm, but here we can vote out witnesses. I just put this code together this afternoon, so it's possible I messed something up. If you see something wrong or you'd like to see the code, please let me know in the comments.

<h3>Have You Voted for a Witness?</h3>

If you haven't voted yet, please consider setting @lukestokes as your proxy voter. Otherwise, go <a href="https://steemit.com/~witnesses">vote for some Steemit Witnesses</a> you've interacted with and respect to do what's in the best interest of the network. I hope that includes my witness, @lukestokes.mhth.

Also, as an added bonus, here are the top 100 accounts by VESTed shares who are currently not voting for any witnesses and don't have a proxy set. If you know any of them, maybe ask nicely if they might consider sending a vote my way. :)

<sub>I've excluded 12 accounts that I _think_ belong to Steemit employees. Seems to me it's a good thing for them not to be involved in the governance decisions of the Steem blockchain considering they control the Steemit account.</sub>


|    |           Account|    Vests   |
|:--:|:----------------:|:------------------------:|
|1|ranchorelaxo|2673733493|
|2|proskynneo|2373715060|
|3|recursive|825386926|
|4|newsflash|727275397|
|5|creator|476774626|
|6|skan|434185626|
|7|livingfree|364402390|
|8|virus707|272160060|
|9|sigizzang|257347550|
|10|damarth|236011480|
|11|extrospect|227949287|
|12|otisbrown|224641357|
|13|ctrl-alt-nwo|217232009|
|14|modprobe|216413276|
|15|famunger|209530527|
|16|trevonjb|203764309|
|17|bayrene|187111227|
|18|faddy|180946157|
|19|cylonmaker2053|178188460|
|20|surfyogi|169154402|
|21|topinvestor2021|158887912|
|22|ramires|158217200|
|23|bramd|155944655|
|24|wans|140185396|
|25|toxic|135771556|
|26|dimimp|130551482|
|27|urbanoid|125276495|
|28|musicholic|120968261|
|29|enable|115506130|
|30|sandrino|109995641|
|31|candyman|108080835|
|32|peacephilpanda|106190123|
|33|greatpath|100705804|
|34|crypto-p|99407451|
|35|underdog600|98915172|
|36|zurvanic|98820346|
|37|noaommerrr|97887374|
|38|joeyd|96498688|
|39|mrwalt|95212368|
|40|rhanna10km|94348959|
|41|eric818|94086523|
|42|steemitblog|93540695|
|43|speda|90728353|
|44|sjmstem|89079944|
|45|skt|84622347|
|46|kimjungmin|83171375|
|47|timotirado|80585337|
|48|kb720k|78468205|
|49|alex|75824112|
|50|leon-fu|73410353|
|51|somebody|69973768|
|52|randomthoughts|68367812|
|53|hedge-x|68211433|
|54|mynewsteemit|67980659|
|55|ugos|67445779|
|56|spectral|64254506|
|57|triplej|63296570|
|58|originate|62083308|
|59|sizzlingmonkeys|62008917|
|60|theoretical|61258065|
|61|cornerstone|58810529|
|62|cjh|58621087|
|63|joele|58384109|
|64|wmougayar|55544517|
|65|ramblin-bob|55415633|
|66|davidp|54406609|
|67|a48|53893030|
|68|benhoneywell|53846674|
|69|megaspore|53320915|
|70|jacobcards|52763377|
|71|kwak|52668771|
|72|steemydino|52311525|
|73|danlupi|51918013|
|74|awgbibb|51830993|
|75|libertyteeth|51822920|
|76|creadordelfuturo|50408528|
|77|xiaohui|48138183|
|78|dana-edwards|46686840|
|79|neilstrauss|46301182|
|80|grognak|45315199|
|81|morten|44576706|
|82|joeblack1|44220634|
|83|alexbeyman|43112913|
|84|domino|42928395|
|85|bitacer|41605383|
|86|goldmatters|41550124|
|87|corbettreport|41211236|
|88|mining4bacon|41046950|
|89|felix.mg1|40927773|
|90|clarkgold|40915894|
|91|doudou252666|40258372|
|92|sword|40097159|
|93|bleepcoin|39800446|
|94|sephiroth|39683922|
|95|rl90|39479421|
|96|kurtcorthout|39464479|
|97|samu-paha|39274707|
|98|margarita-chavez|38608602|
|99|katecloud|37978769|
|100|abuzarkalam|37964202|

If people find this useful, I may make it a regular weekly or monthly report to remind everyone to vote for witnesses and further distribute the governance process here on Steemit. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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vote details (374)

voter	rshares	pct
berkah	49,939,779,532	15%
pharesim	103,502,177,268	0.16%
enki	1,434,030,305,093	20%
sandra	21,650,334,099	9%
ihashfury	3,370,351,632	2.34%
arhag	3,924,753,324,757	15%
ajvest	412,726,882,724	100%
jason	18,153,248,152	6.21%
benjojo	66,055,367,137	25%
chitty	46,805,440,428	10%
pnc	48,512,040,596	15%
sandwich	39,183,516,821	100%
ppitonak	9,934,766,845	100%
nomoreheroes7	3,692,463,635	4%
jademont	15,241,126,887	10%
bleepcoin	597,006,700,393	75%
gavvet	603,976,184,092	4%
eeks	795,932,900,329	100%
teamsteem	15,739,485,425,683	100%
cryptoctopus	171,688,792,779	4%
nanzo-scoop	879,946,389,391	15%
acidyo	3,954,686,045,603	20%
steve-walschot	1,843,304,758	4%
mummyimperfect	8,894,929,132	15%
kevinwong	1,144,827,808,024	47%
dragonslayer109	61,095,529,855	4%
ak2020	21,696,292,580	15%
writewords	1,505,224,671	11%
ashe-oro	250,712,519,470	40%
stellabelle	184,924,041,808	15%
digitalplayer	0	100%
the-alien	207,003,215,330	100%
churdtzu	268,650,906,899	100%
intelliguy	48,577,975,711	100%
juanmiguelsalas	13,113,495,211	15%
paradise-paradox	79,046,495,538	100%
thecryptodrive	292,914,154,939	31%
wongshiying	3,517,492,122	12.5%
bravenewcoin	17,757,830,564	100%
grandpere	7,487,072,293	2%
sean-king	6,291,542,181,262	100%
albertogm	45,453,909,815	100%
geoffrey	1,675,100,685,186	100%
lukestokes	1,885,992,323,751	100%
angusleung100	2,316,412,139	100%
tyler-fletcher	41,547,734,446	100%
jonnyrevolution	12,314,541,493	10%
gtg	2,808,926,915,210	100%
superfreek	2,958,374,121	100%
skapaneas	188,378,356,083	100%
lauralemons	6,546,662,591	7.5%
joshbreslauer	268,120,056,732	50%
seanmclellan	22,812,649,195	100%
ausbitbank	3,201,003,669,788	25%
jacor	35,113,334,315	4%
vortac	1,243,842,995,438	30%
lrock	431,550,761,557	100%
igster	157,915,932,704	100%
allmonitors	19,246,859,369	14%
lichtblick	89,889,853,664	10%
mynameisbrian	291,899,115,004	100%
blueorgy	846,955,002,628	100%
jens84	55,332,948,109	25%
deanliu	126,192,643,453	12.5%
exyle	335,909,482,043	10%
jedau	64,572,116,753	100%
crazymumzysa	5,068,896,257	4%
arconite	5,951,870,900	23.5%
bbrewer	53,358,705,812	100%
lemooljiang	18,896,890,184	12.5%
daynewright	3,867,578,295	100%
team-leibniz	46,981,401,622	40%
fatboy	1,406,952,365,047	100%
brianphobos	39,559,718,836	100%
celebr1ty	44,356,318,500	18%
jasonstaggers	271,208,904,761	100%
karenb54	47,518,439,069	30%
laoyao	4,228,177,748	12.5%
cryptoninja	168,399,680	25%
somebody	174,934,421,396	12.5%
planet.earth	3,254,881,336	100%
timsaid	438,891,281,496	4%
midnightoil	23,179,328,689	12.5%
themagus	29,686,476,850	10%
xiaohui	120,345,457,592	12.5%
silentlucidity53	2,345,077,980	80%
surfermarly	82,817,880,865	20%
elfkitchen	3,669,795,785	12.5%
oflyhigh	206,010,171,704	12.5%
xiaokongcom	2,018,353,428	12.5%
crypticus	12,476,982,692	100%
scaredycatguide	40,218,756,518	10%
hanshotfirst	136,053,179,658	5%
lordvader	190,560,068,935	25%
nextgen622	76,121,972,140	12.5%
chinadaily	27,836,219,573	12.5%
helene	34,478,705,284	12.5%
enternamehere	73,577,676,025	100%
instahater	83,892,721	9%
lamech-m	2,893,654,312	15%
kafkanarchy84	437,861,918,458	100%
cryptomancer	41,074,104,542	13%
ethansteem	62,561,137,230	12.5%
someguy123	705,958,498,871	100%
jankasparec	98,504,072,896	100%
jyezie	0	100%
dajohns1420	7,496,337,227	26%
hotgirlktm	218,280,745	100%
foxkoit	59,764,488,864	100%
wannabite	1,852,980,931	25%
destinyworldwide	2,982,342,129	100%
quinneaker	0	1%
joearnold	5,320,412,353	100%
titusfrost	17,847,946,986	10%
kyusho	9,113,235,813	5%
ebargains	3,482,776,248	4%
scottsantens	1,553,161,236	33.21%
anahilarski	16,179,899,705	10%
heroic15397	13,617,831,285	20%
funnyman	2,765,738,190	0.8%
t-bot	8,032,541,327	30%
rynow	22,208,892,992	6%
dylanhobalart	4,571,912,755	5%
bosjaya	1,198,454,288	100%
birds90	5,260,963,397	12.5%
nataleeoliver	96,869,376	100%
wakeupworldnews	2,209,771,208	41.54%
dougkarr	2,602,915,231	10%
steemtruth	62,198,257,427	15%
louisnelza	908,099,075	100%
slider2990	47,587,058,498	50%
lalala	4,349,647,170	12.5%
lakshmi	4,232,125,826	100%
ejhaasteem	749,092,965	4%
judasp	53,798,272,158	100%
jmehta	863,075,784	100%
oleg326756	547,302,345	3%
j3dy	2,062,201,158	10%
devilwsy	308,815,150	12.5%
janiceting	308,548,556	12.5%
mafeeva	14,360,502,344	15%
guttormf	19,123,591,483	100%
beeskee	24,270,986,342	100%
leongkhan	123,899,595,761	50%
guytremat	32,100,147,920	100%
poocut	1,729,396,289	100%
yaariart	908,512,442	100%
sydesjokes	3,157,858,271	100%
askari	5,598,029,182	100%
polem	1,669,656,984	100%
sebastianjago	28,359,524,767	5%
blackbunny	2,311,820,809	12.5%
elgeko	32,610,880,869	42.3%
dimitrisp	5,167,584,461	100%
steemav	1,123,215,408	100%
len.george	7,500,122,278	33%
lingfei	6,424,885,460	12.5%
denmarkguy	62,315,248,519	25%
animal-shelter	848,838,726	1%
privex	0	100%
whistlejacket	3,107,094,060	100%
samuelpaddy	193,312,157	100%
yyyy	1,159,465,926	12.5%
rckymaulana	1,903,707,357	100%
estronitex	5,587,829,091	100%
sebhofmann	28,504,353,341	100%
azfix	36,765,468,530	25%
tranquilpen	691,967,603	100%
honeybeee	6,357,691,557	97%
treebuilder	2,344,248,482	100%
borislavzlatanov	7,661,654,785	100%
rafaelpadilla	1,808,396,299	100%
trafalgar	2,003,409,886,286	9%
oluwoleolaide	233,240,073	0.4%
robbieretard	2,028,847,322	100%
aismor	621,304,475	100%
nuad01	776,350,986	100%
altccy	138,052,147,749	100%
hammadakhtar	1,000,601,687	10%
velimir	271,513,213	0.4%
balasan	0	100%
keppo337	1,992,113,155	100%
airmatti	4,581,015,236	13%
thatgermandude	6,039,880,068	100%
tomshwom	8,709,409,946	100%
andrewdaines	261,295,664	16%
greenstar	6,728,154,504	15%
orionschariot	10,138,433,518	15%
alavan	1,349,437,198	100%
vitkolesnik	12,937,592,535	100%
bi5h0p	2,088,051,440	100%
aarkay	361,130,214	100%
leanvix	16,925,233,728	100%
sv67216721	5,578,775,169	5%
deirdyweirdy	14,289,241,943	33%
sacred-agent	8,520,099,330	9%
bayrene	1,247,030,501,361	100%
gabriellasam	6,063,883,784	100%
mandagoi	8,433,460,674	10%
drpuffnstuff	29,369,110,972	24%
nuke-bloodaxe	7,356,355,558	100%
etcbits	1,856,853,144	100%
praz735u5	2,791,182,802	100%
indiantraveller	64,874,732	0.24%
headliner	7,993,125,170	100%
stackin	11,487,959,398	1%
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jerrybanfield	1,685,313,116,890	100%
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@abupasi.alachy · Aug 1 '17

Posts that attract friends from me @abupasi.alachy hopefully we become best friends

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@ahmadzaki · Aug 1 '17

Thank you, the information is very important and useful to me,i have voted for @lukestokes.mhth

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Thank you for your vote! I really do appreciate it.

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@allfabeta · Aug 1 '17

I don worry about how many people voted for witnesses.

I DO WORRY we have 2/3 inactive accounts. So, when I see a statistic about steemit has 300+k users, I would divide this numbers on 3

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Yeah, there are a lot of bot accounts and early miner accounts that have never posted. That's something I've always kept in mind since day 1.

👍 allfabeta

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@allmonitors · Aug 2 '17

Great initiative in pulling out those stats.

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

I think it'll be a really useful thing for us all to keep a regular eye on. It's one thing to vote for witnesses once, but quite another to keep up with all the politics involved and ensure those votes remain in the best interests of the network over time.

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@amedeo · Aug 1 '17

That's very true, man! Keep going! I am following you!

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@animal-shelter · Aug 2 '17

Hello:) You have our with squirell CryptoNut Zappl vote for a Witness:) Good luck to you!

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@apple64 · Aug 1 '17

I will research more about this! Thanks for the info

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@appledeguzman · Aug 1 '17

im not getting it... i think i need someone who can explain it to me in a simplier words...so i can help on whatever its purpose... i think its for the better and for the future of steem.... so we should help each other....

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

You may have missed it, but <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">this post</a> I linked to should help explain what witnesses do.

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@arcange · Aug 2 '17

Congratulations @lukestokes!
Your post was mentioned in the [hit parade](https://steemit.com/hit-parade/@arcange/daily-hit-parade-20170801) in the following category:

* Comments - Ranked 3 with 186 comments

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@awaismuneeb1 · Aug 1 '17

Please follow Upvote or promote my account in this steemit, i really need it. Hopefully not ignored. Thanks , hope you easy sustenance
i upvote u and follow u also

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

You have a 12 reputation right now. That might be because you're asking people to give you something just because. That's like spam. Hopefully <a href="https://steemit.com/reputation/@lukestokes/reputation-advice-from-someone-in-the-top-0-38">this post will help you</a> change your tactics.

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@azfix · Aug 1 '17

I always encourage people to vote but if they are not sure I encourage them to make me a proxy.

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Sounds reasonable. :)

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@bbrewer · Aug 1 '17 (edited)

$0.21

Hey @lukestokes just voted for you. I would have done it sooner had I known you were there. I need to pay closer attention. Thanks for all you do. I definitely get good vibes from everything I have seen you post here and on Telegram.

👍 bbrewer

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.19

Thanks so much! I really appreciate your vote.

👍 bbrewer

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@bbrewer · Aug 1 '17

My pleasure!

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@bi5h0p · Aug 1 '17

Awesome post! I'm actually a little bit surprised by the small amount of participation when it comes to voting on Witnesses. It's a very important part of the SteemIt experience, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe we all need to do a better job of raising awareness on this issue. I figured Steemians were more civic-minded people - but I guess not?

Upvoted and Resteemed.

👍 bi5h0p

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

It's an educational challenge, I think. Many have no idea what witnesses are or what they do. I linked to my post explaining it, but I think many missed that link since I put it in small text. So yeah, we've got our work cut out for us!

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@blockchainevo · Aug 1 '17

$0.30

I voted for you, timcliff, and gtg. Thanks for being witnesses.

👍 kontora, gamefiles, blockchainevo, mtx, tilikum

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Thank you!

👍 blockchainevo

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@blueorgy · Aug 1 '17

$0.62

Excellent Post, I believe in the very near future there will be a lot more witness voting activity. I think in the past month or so we've seen it increase quite a bit. The more competition for witnesses the better, it will drive witnesses to over perform like @lukestokes 😉. After you're done voting for him if you happen to have a second vote readily available I'm here 😎 To occupy that. 

Setting a voting proxy is also a great way to start if you haven't voted before. Sadly Luke doesn't vote me as witness 😛 Awww but before you get all upset lol his current list of witness votes are all incredible witnesses and steemians in general, so it'd be tough to get on that list, to say the least! 

### Get To Voting People! ###
Let's turn that 7% into 17% by nights end!

👍 blueorgy, sc-steemit

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

> Let's turn that 7% into 17% by nights end!

Let's make it happen! :)

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@brianphobos · Aug 1 '17

Yeah a lot of people don't know what witnesses are and are confused about the voting.  Don't worry I have already voted for you!

👍 minnowpond, minnowpond1

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

I agree, many don't know what it is or why they should care. I'll keep <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">sharing this post</a> until more understand! :)

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@brianphobos · Aug 1 '17

Great idea!   Keep sharing and promoting!

👍 minnowpond, minnowpond1

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@bullshark · Aug 1 '17

$0.42

I voted for @sc-steemit as a witness then quickly realised it would be a full time job trying to figure out who to vote/un-vote as witnesses so I give @sc-steemit my proxy vote seen as they do a lot of research on who the best witnesses are.

👍 sc-steemit, bullshark, grider123

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@sc-steemit · Aug 1 '17

$0.19

Thank you for your support @bullskark!

I'm writing much about the need to vote for witnesses and to make sure they are doing a good job. As well as making sure they are not inactive so you're not waiting your vote for something that doesn't do anything.

I've started up a project to support new and upcoming witnesses with Project Minnow Witness.
[Starting up "Project Minnow Witness"; Current Report End of July](https://steemit.com/minnowwitness/@sc-steemit/starting-up-project-minnow-witness-current-report-end-of-july)

👍 bullshark

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@byfive · Aug 1 '17

Really interesting

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@charlesarthuriii · Aug 1 '17

$0.45

thank you for the information. I only registered yesterday but I had no idea about witnesses at all. But that is why I came here, to learn. I made you my proxy for the time being. Please don't let me down I didn't vote for one of the top people because I don't want steem to be ruled by a few powerful people that decide to make this their cash cow. Thanks again.

👍 good-karma, adept, feruz, esteemapp, elgeko, bounties, steempoll, demo, tipping, mysteem, mondeja, sdibot

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

You're welcome and thanks for trusting me with your proxy vote. I try to vote for those who think long-term and have the best interests of the entire network in mind. I'm not perfect, but I do the best I can with the information I have.

👍 charlesarthuriii

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@dadview · Aug 6 '17

$0.69

I missed this post when I was out camping. 
I think that it is a bit overwhelming for new members. Unless you read the white pages there isn't a lot that directs you to vote for a witness. 
I am still creating my criteria and am planning a post on how I choose. I am enjoying reading all the recommendations for witnesses by others on this post.
It is something very unique to steemit and users of other social media apps will require education if we expect them to assign a proxy or vote for themselves.

On a positive note, it is probably a good thing that users are not just throwing their votes out blindly to witnesses that they know nothing about or even what their role is. It would be interesting to know more details on the 8k members who have voted compared to the 105k who haven't (number of posts, date joined, SP, ect)

<p> <div class="pull-left">
 ![image](https://img.esteem.ws/jjldri0it9.jpg)</div>
<a href="https://steemit.com/travel/@dadview/lions-head-day-trip">
 Darryl </a> (@dadview) resides in Canada.

 <a href="https://steemit.com/travel/@dadview/lions-head-day-trip">
Latest Blog</a></p>

👍 lukestokes

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@lukestokes · Aug 6 '17

Yeah, I do plan to break it down much further. I just need to find the time to mess with the code. Also, it takes a long time to run (an hour or so depending on how I slice the data), so I'll have to think through how I want to do it. These things go in sprints. I get all fired up and work for hours without sleep, and then I let it sit for a bit and come back to it later. Maybe tomorrow I'll hack some more. :)

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@davebrewer · Aug 4 '17

$1.27

Low voting percentage is lower than I would have guessed.

But stepping back from a practical perspective - do we have any evidence that lack of voting is in any way corrupting or impacting the witness pool?

Are there known bad actors that we should care about trying to get out?

How would we find about known bad actors that need to be out?

I vote when I see someone making specially good efforts to try to advance the best interests of the community.

So I'll go and vote for @lukestokes

But not sure how it really matters or what impact my vote will have.  

Just doing it to be a "good citizen"

STEEM On!!
DaveB

👍 davebrewer

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@lukestokes · Aug 4 '17

Thanks David. At the moment, when the community is (somewhat) in agreement about things, it's not really a big deal. Even then, what really matters is how the accounts with the most Steem Power vote. When it comes to blockchain governance, having it built in is really nice. Other cryptocurrencies have run into big problems with miners battling users battling other corporate interests. It can get nasty. One of the things I love about DPOS (Delegated Proof of Stake, the system Steem uses, unlike POW-proof of work) is that we have this voting system built in. If there was a conflict, however, we'd need to make sure we actually use it. There have been conflicts before. One hardfork proposted by Steemit, Inc as an example, never went live. The witnesses rejected it.

So yeah, it's important and can be difficult to keep up with. Thanks for being a good citizen. :)

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@deirdyweirdy · Aug 1 '17

A much-needed post I think considering the number of commenters who seem unaware of the importance of witnesses.  I had already voted for 7 and I do keep an eye on Witstats to make sure they're working effectively. I have given you my  8th vote.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Thank you!

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@denmarkguy · Aug 1 '17

Wow, those are some interesting numbers... I really appreciate you taking the time to crank this out.

7.5% looks a bit alarming, but I bet if you re-run this with a more generous interpretation of what an "active" member is... 25 posts? 50 posts? Even 100 posts as someone else suggested, that number will climb considerably. 

I know I didn't start voting for witnesses till (a) I had at least a basic understanding of what witnesses DO (b) had a basic understanding of how Steemit works and (c) only woted for witnesses who seemed "visible" and actively engaged in the community. Which leaves me 6 months into the game having cast 20 of my 30 votes.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

I ran the 100 posts numbers right before going to bed. Here they are:

Total accounts: 291340
Inactive Accounts: 278390
Accounts with a Proxy: 260
Accounts with a witness vote: 4084
Accounts with no witness vote: 8466

Almost 50% participation!

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@dlina-v-metrah · Aug 1 '17

I do not vote for the witnesses yet, because I have not quite figured out what exactly they should do and for whom it is wiser to vote.

But I'm trying to figure it out.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

I hope <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">this post I linked to</a> will be helpful.

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@dodders007 · Aug 1 '17

$0.46

It will be interesting to see if the stats have changed following your post here!?

👍 dodders007, michaeldodridge

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Based on the interest and the benefit it can give to the community, I think I'll turn this into a regular weekly report and start tweaking it a bit to show some other interesting stats as far as steem power distribution in the votes.

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@drpuffnstuff · Aug 1 '17

Nice, I've always wondered. I also wonder how much vesting power is voting compared to the vesting power not voting (excluding steemit accounts).. how much stake does that 7.5% hold. Thanks for the stats. Puts it into perspective!

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.15

That's a good question. It might be interesting to see how much influence the "non-voters" have compared to those who have already voted. Might be a good thing to add to a future update of this report code. :)

👍 drpuffnstuff

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@dune69 · Aug 1 '17

I have only voted for witnesses that have impressed me on the site .. With either informative posts, projects to help the site or the ones i have interacted with through posts.
Its not only minnows that have to impress to get anywhere .. 

I'm not for voting for a witness just because they are on the list

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Sounds like a good plan.

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@ehujra · Aug 1 '17

Very informative stuff , need sreemers to educate about it , let me resteem it

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@elaine54 · Aug 4 '17

Well Im relieved to be able to say that I'm one of the7,233. However I have only voted for 4 or 5 whose blog and attitude had impressed me. Checked a couple of others but chose not to vote for them. I actually assumed that there was a 'vote before' date and had forgotten about it. 

Anyway, i see the vote goes on, so I'll be checking out  Stellabelle's recommendations later. Enjoyed her video interview last night. :-)  
Meanwhile, if anybody can tell me how or if we can still claim interest on steem power or dollars, they will have my vote for life... Ive run a search and checked into the chatroom, but the only info seems to be from last year.

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@lukestokes · Aug 4 '17

$0.61

**I'll take that vote for life!** Hahah...

Currently, no there is no interest on SBD. That's a witness controlled setting which you can view here under `APR`: https://steemd.com/witnesses If enough witnesses adjust that (I forget what the actual number of the top 20 need to be), it will kick in. Some are considering adding it back in.

As to Steem Power giving interest, yes, that happens but it's more like "share dilution protection" than interest. It's a bit confusing and took me a while to figure out, but when you have Steem Power, you actually have "VESTS" as far as the blockchain is concerned. The ratio of VESTS to Steem Power changes over time, meaning you get more Steem Power as as blocks are produced, VEST holders get some of the newly created value. Since Steem Power can be converted to liquid STEEM, 1,000,000 VESTS today will convert to 484.256 STEEM. In the future it will convert into even more STEEM. So it's not really interest as much as the value of liquid STEEM is being decreased via inflation but those who hold Steem Power (VESTS) are protected from that inflation. That rate of protection (if you want, you can call it "interest" but it's helpful to know the difference) is currently around 6.2% according to https://steemdb.com/

I hope that helps answer your question!

👍 elaine54

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@elaine54 · Aug 4 '17

Thanks for that. I can just about get my head around that. And when himself comes home to find Ive spent his bitcoin on steem, it will help me justify his loss  ;-)  you have my vote for life. Did I mention I was 103 last month?

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@emble · Aug 2 '17

I voted for you. I would look for witnesses that will have an open ear to hear the community's problems and solutions. So far I didn't see any board for that. I don't see a bright future for steemit, as written in my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@emble/will-steem-succeed-or-commit-suicide

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@fajri · Aug 1 '17

Info is very useful, because I just joined steemit @lukestokes

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@fatboy · Aug 1 '17

Hi Luke! I will vote you for witness! Cheers!

👍 fatboy
👎 kamranbhatti

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Thanks Fatboy!

(I can't help but think "Slim!" after that name)

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@foxkoit · Aug 1 '17

I never got votes there, so I do not take part, I just do not want to give free votes...
vote this vote that ... but me..who give me vote. I hope you all have fun.

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@netuoso · Aug 1 '17

That seems rather selfish when it is the witnesses that help make Steem functional at all. And we pay out of pocket to run the servers that you benefit from. 

It isn't always about "who will vote for me??". Voting for a witness doesn't remove anything from you but a witness vote slot. You are essentially just saying "I don't know much about it so I am going to just let the founders and IN crowd maintain control"

It takes users like you and all these non voters to make a difference. 

I'm a witness and your sentiment about it makes me a little disappointed. But to each their own I imagine.

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@foxkoit · Aug 1 '17

Ah :)) But did you think why I make this comment here :)) I know how this works... I like steemit. :))) 

How is your day ? It is very windy today, and in the clouds, there is little sun.

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@gabriellasam · Aug 1 '17

thanks for reminding.  Have made you my proxy.  Is that ok with you?

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

For sure! Thank you.

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@gnimeets · Aug 1 '17

I was literally just thinking this after reading Vitaliks last post, can I delegate my witness votes like people delegate steam. Low and behold the very first post on the top of my homepage is this. I would be delighted to deligate my witness votes to you luke :)
Vitaliks reply to dan -
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6qm0y2/is_the_ethereum_team_defending_their_ground/dkzoj5t/

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Nice! And thanks for that link, I hadn't read that reply. Good stuff.

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@gnimeets · Aug 1 '17

Now if you could tell me how to delegate my witness votes..I could always check myself but u gotta earn it lol

(I'm just lazy)

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@god-is-love · Aug 1 '17

Only 7.5% witness voting engagement!  Very small number.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

It is, but there's little education out there for new users as to what witnesses are or do, so most probably don't know anything about it. They just create an account, post some stuff, and never worry about anything else.

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@gtg · Aug 1 '17

> We Have 7.5% Witness Voting Engagement.

That's so sad. **Voter turnout rate** is a metrics that tells if we are mature community or not.
Seems like we are not there yet.

Please vote for witnesses, your vote does matter

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

It'll take some time, but I think we can educate people on how this works and why it's important.

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@guttormf · Aug 2 '17 (edited)

Thanks for this @lukestokes! You invite us to use you as proxy. Could you say why? In which direction do you want Steem to go? Why are you voting for who? There were so many comments here that I didn't manage to go through them all, but I from what I saw it hasn't been answered already.

Also, why don't you just put the code on Github anyway?

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

$0.07

Hello. You can view my Witness Introduction post here:

* <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/vote-luke-stokes-for-witness-as-lukestokes-mhth">Vote Luke Stokes for Witness as lukestokes.mhth!</a>

The witness update posts on my blog also go into more details as to what I've been doing to benefit the community .

This post also explains a bit more about why voting and proxy voting is important:

* <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future</a>

I vote for Witnesses who I think are acting in the best interests of the network and who I've had positive interactions with.

As to Github, I've published some of <a href="https://github.com/lukestokes/php-steem-tools">my code here</a> but I haven't updated it in a long time. The code I'm using locally is out of sync quite a bit with the github code. I'm hesitant to put it out there for everyone because it puts a lot of strain on the API nodes which are already experiencing quite a bit of load. If we had more healthy API nodes up and running, I'd feel more comfortable about it. This is being actively discussed in the witness channel in steemit.chat.

👍 guttormf

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@handofzara · Aug 1 '17

Ok, not really sure what this about, or how it really effects steemit.  Sadly, sometimes I feel like a real luddite.  I do understand that somehow the witness is involved in the block chain.  Does that mean that you are running a portion of the block chain with some gaming equipment (see how much I do not know)?  I am not trying to be sarcastic, just trying to understand.  Anyway I do understand politics, I understand that if you don't vote don't complain.  With that in mind you get another vote for witness.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

I linked to this post in my original post (<a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future</a>) which should hopefully explain things a bit. Does that help?

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@heroic15397 · Aug 1 '17

I would consider it normal that an account with less than, let's say, 100 posts would not have voted for any witness yet. So I think 7.5% of engagement is a good result to a pessimistic inquiry.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

That's a good way to look at it. You got me curious... I'm running it again with a cut off of > 100 posts, just to see how the numbers might change. I think 100 posts is quite a bit, but I guess that would be a fully active account (or at least one that was active at some point in the last year or so).

👍 heroic15397

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.80

Here you go! It's almost 50% participation when looked at this way:

Total accounts: 291340
Inactive Accounts: 278390
Accounts with a Proxy: 260
Accounts with a witness vote: 4084
Accounts with no witness vote: 8466

👍 teamsteem, someguy123, pnc, greenstar, lauralemons, lamech-m, erickjongo

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@heroic15397 · Aug 1 '17

Great news!

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@heymattsokol · Aug 1 '17

That's a much lower percent of users than I would expect. I guess voting on witnesses is pretty advanced Steem stuff, you'd have to really care about learning and being super involved here before you start to understand that.

And if you find blockchain confusing, that could be another roadblock for some people who think it's harder than it is, maybe.

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

$0.05

Yeah, it's not first day, simple stuff. But, I think, with enough education we can get people up to speed eventually with out this thing works. I've been here a year, trying to learn every day, and I'm still figuring things out constantly. :)

👍 heymattsokol

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@hlamyothet · Aug 1 '17

I have voted for you can voted my comment please. Thank you dear in advence.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Sorry, I don't trade votes. I upvote comments which I feel provide value.

👍 tzs, sc-steemit

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@igster · Aug 1 '17 (edited)

"Out of over 100k active accounts, only around 8k are currently voting for a witness." 

Can you calculate how much Steem Power is hold by these two parties? Will the ratio be same but switched? If yes, the 100k really don't need to bother to hassle with their passwords etc.

👍 igster

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.20

I'll be making improvements to the report in future versions which I hope will include SP distribution data and maybe even some graphs. Follow for updates. :)

👍 igster, anonfolderall, folderall.net

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@igster · Aug 1 '17

Great, it's important to have data available on these things so a big thank you!

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@ilvstranger · Aug 1 '17 (edited)

If i would understand how all things works here, i will try them. But i gathered so much information for now and don't know where to begin. 
When i hear of bots, it sounds that is not ok. But seen that a lot of bots helps in growing corectly.

Also, regarding witness, i know i vote all witnesses i saw till now (something with steemwitness... ) because the message in it. Went to that witness user, saw their content and thought is a good thing. So voted them always.
But in my latest articles, i had only some bots i think that said they upvoted me... Uhm... so confusing for now.

Anyway, i voted you, resteemed and follow.

How do i set you as proxy and whats the procedure after that? Thanks
...
later edit: i found witness page and voted you also there...

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Thank you. You can set proxies on the same page you vote for witnesses. If you do one, it takes the place of the other.

👍 ilvstranger

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@incrediblesnow · Aug 1 '17

$1.47

@lukestokes, please allow me to translate your content to Chinese in order to spread more to the community who did not fluent in english!
If you like my action please upvote me!
My post link here : https://steemit.com/cn/@incrediblesnow/steemit

👍 lukestokes, enki, lukestokes.mhth, albertogm

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Go for it! If you could also link to this post in your translated post, I would appreciate it.

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@incrediblesnow · Aug 1 '17

Yes sir, I have mentioned my content was  translated from your post in my starting and I also post the link that link to your post! Thanks for allowing me to do so!

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@intelliguy · Aug 1 '17

$0.07

Great post... I'm not surprised by the numbers at all.

However, does that mean only only 7.5% of all users here care how the platform gets powered, or have bothered to take the time to learn about it?

Probably yes...  and that's not the fault of the users really.  

If you came over from Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, generally a user is just that... someone who uses a system.  Users are never in charge of finding out how things work in the backend, nor voting for how the system is run.

So if we're going to up that 7.5% number, we have a lot of work to do..

There could also be a benefit (maybe a penalty) for not voting a witness.  Maybe your earned reward is less by 2% if you don't vote for a witness, which goes to a collaborative marketing fund.

Or, you gain an extra 2% in rewards, for voting for a witness.

Instead of a moral or social reason to vote for a witness... if there are monetary advantages or disadvantages, we could expect that 7.5% to grow to at least double that, maybe even triple that (which would be really good for the system).

👍 intelliguy

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.18

Interesting idea. I'm cautious about using extrinsic motivators such as financial rewards. Hopefully we can take the education route instead and people will be intrinsically motivated to vote. Also, if financial rewards are involved we might see more vote buying which probably isn't the best way to determine who the best witnesses are.

I agree, it takes work to figure out who to vote for. But it's also a good thing to do to protect your account and investment.

👍 bullshark

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@inzeen · Aug 1 '17

Thank you for your attention regarding this. Keep up the great work.

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

You're welcome, and I will!

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@jankasparec · Aug 1 '17

Upvoted. Thanks for educating me Luke! I wanna set you up as witness, can you guide me please? (facebook?). I'm real busy to go into studying but I'd love to support you because I trust you @lukestokes. Cheers bro

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Thanks Jan!

Just visit https://steemit.com/~witnesses and then click on the up arrow next to @lukestokes.mhth

You'll then be asked for your active password. Hopefully you have that saved in a password manager. You can view all your account passwords here: https://steemit.com/@jankasparec/permissions

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@jerrybanfield · Aug 2 '17

Outstanding work researching this because it helps a lot to see what our participation level is!  Fortunately it seems the voting percentage is much higher among those with more invested say the top 1000 in Steem Power and especially the top 250.

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

$0.44

Thanks Jerry. Yes, I plan to improve this report to evaluate things in terms of Steem Power holders and how much influence the non-voters could have if they came together and voted.

👍 jerrybanfield, besteulz, cryptoninja

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@jerrybanfield · Aug 3 '17

Excellent I will be happy to see that information in a new post!

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@jimbobbill · Aug 1 '17

I still don't see why the power of a witness vote is dependent on the amount of Steem Power and I've yet to have the rational explained to me. How can it be fair that the votes of the 105,000 users who have not voted would probably be worth less than the votes of the 100 users you listed (if they had voted)? I understand why SP would influence voting power/rewards but witness votes?

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Those with the most Steem Power have the most invest in the platform and have the most to lose if bad decisions are made. It's based on game theory dynamics and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack">Sybil Attack</a> concerns. We can't just go by numbers as one person can create thousands of accounts.

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@jimbobbill · Aug 2 '17

Fair enough but there must be a way of preventing sybil attacks other than by making it pointless for 99% of people on Steemit to vote. This whole platform is completely run and controlled by a tiny minority. This is of course by design and it is also the way the world works (by design) and it's shit. You seem to want to encourage voting for witnesses but if any user looks into how it works they can only come to the conclusion that their vote is really worthless unless they are voting for one of the top 1% of Steempower holders.

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@jrandolph · Aug 1 '17 (edited)

Thank you, I did not even know about voting till now. Vote cast for you.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Excellent! I'm glad I could help send some useful information your way.

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@jyezie · Aug 8 '17

what sucks is that DPOS is our secuirty model but Steemit Inc. doesn't ***actively*** promote voting. It's like no one care. It took me forever to get back to what the witnesses really are.

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@lukestokes · Aug 8 '17

Yeah, but the security model is pretty tight right now. I don't see a reason to sound the alarm or anything. Blocks are being actively produced and the chain is secure.

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@jyezie · Aug 8 '17

No, I really don't think. If anything bad happen, a solution should be voted... but by who since the majority (of SP) doesn't do anything. 

The problem with DPOS is voter apathy, but they don't even know they are supposed to vote. How do you want them to monitor anything? Witnesses could censor some users we wouldn't even know. 

Btw, in the top list of witnesses, some of them are greyed but the votes are still there.

I don't call that a tight (realistic) security model.

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@kafkanarchy84 · Aug 1 '17

Resteemed. Thank you for posts like these. This is the kind of stuff I am *not* cut out to do on the platform, and I really appreciate the service to the platform, and the rigor that went into digging up and polishing this valuable nug of info. Cheers!

👍 sc-steemit

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Thank you!

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@kanggary · Aug 1 '17

I will vote for you.

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Thank you! Every vote matters to me.

👍 kanggary

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@karenb54 · Aug 1 '17

I've just voted for you :)

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

SHAWEET! Thanks. :)

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@karenb54 · Aug 2 '17

You are welcome:)

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@kichen · Aug 1 '17

Holy cow this is a lot of work for you to do. Glad your getting it automated. Bots have been driving me nuts on here. I understand some of the more complex bots, but simple commenting bots are the worst.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

The humans that act like bots are quite annoying as well.

*"Hi! Upvoted! Vote for me please?"*

Ugh.

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@kidemagine · Aug 1 '17

This is sad.

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

It's an opportunity for more education.

👍 kidemagine

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@lakshmi · Aug 1 '17

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I don't spend much time on steemit but really like the platform and want to participate in a constructive way.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Excellent!

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@lexiconical · Aug 1 '17

Did you happen to look at what percentage of total Steem Power/Vests is voting for witnesses? I assume it's a lot higher than the number of accounts, as wealthy accounts are much more likely to be engaged?

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

That's probably true and I will be playing with the report in the future to add improvements like that.

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@lichtblick · Aug 1 '17

Resteemed :-)

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Thanks :)

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@lordmp27 · Aug 1 '17

I do voting for witness, but i dont know what is the meaning, ;)

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Please <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">see this post I linked to</a> for more information.

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@louisnelza · Aug 1 '17 (edited)

This is a very low engagement rate. I bet a lot of people registered for Steemit like I did and have completely forgotten about their registration.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Yeah, many dead accounts for sure.

👍 louisnelza

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$12.23

I ran a version of the report again this morning but did not include the requirement for a single post. Here are the results:

Total accounts: 291,340
Accounts with a proxy: 3,531
Accounts with a witness vote: 7,870
Accounts with no witness vote: 279,899

That's not surprising to me that there are bot accounts with no posts which have proxies set. What is surprising is I lost 40 accounts somewhere as the math doesn't perfectly add up. :)

Begin time: 2017-08-01T13:59:50+00:00
End time: 2017-08-01T14:39:31+00:00

The report takes about 40 minutes to run, and that's with the full list of accounts already cached. If I'm going to run this weekly (which I think I am), I'll probably set it up on a server to automate parts of it. I also want to play around with some charts showing SP distribution and such. I'm also curious to know how many accounts are voting per witness in the top 20 and 50 along with the SP distribution of those voters. Super interesting stuff here. I love the blockchain! :)

👍 lukestokes, enki, acidyo, teamsteem, pharesim, lukestokes.mhth, albertogm, seraph, sc-steemit, someguy123, pnc, nagavolu, besteulz, greenstar, lauralemons, lamech-m
👎 sadkitten

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@lucasgabd · Aug 9 '17

decided that today was a good day to pick some more witness to vote.
had only around 4 votes.

just added @lukestokes.mhth , @ausbitbank and @jerrybanfield

**use the power wisely dear friends**
May the green monster be with you.

*Lucas*
[Malabarize-se](http://www.youtube.com/malabarismo)
https://scontent.fgig4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/644408_532237086816899_1377264993_n.png?oh=6c375f172550ac1262eb645c14370b1c&oe=5A0622A0

👍 comeonmate

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@robbieretard · Aug 2 '17

$0.03

You can reduce that by 1,  so now 279,898 accounts with no witness vote.

👍 deirdyweirdy

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

:)

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@macchiata · Aug 4 '17

I have actually still learning the importance and task of a witness but I do put you on my witness vote. I simply wish new users would understand the importance of voting for a  witness in this community.

cheers! :-)

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@lukestokes · Aug 4 '17

Thank you!

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@malicered · Aug 1 '17 (edited)

I think that this is a very interesting kind of problem. I think a lot of those active accounts choose not to vote for witness for a purpose. I think that if witnesses want more votes, they'll need to find a way to engage those users and earn those votes. 

Personally, I only upvote for a handful of witnesses and that's because they've earned my vote on a personal level. @someguy123, @ausbitbank, @aggrooed, @teamsteem, @klye,  I've talked to these people personally, and have worked with them personally. So when a witness gets a vote from me, that's because they've done something in my eyes that deemed them vote worthy, or if I feel that they really are doing something good for the community. 

That's how I vote for witnesses anyway. But I'm just a tiny minnow.

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

I think that's a great approach! Thanks for voting.

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@marcusorlyius · Aug 1 '17

$0.50

I had used all my votes previously but I recently removed them all. I'm now only going to vote for witnesses that advocate for a far more fair distribution of power and an increase in the number of witnesses as the wealthy have far too much power on this site. So far, I haven't found anyone worthy of voting for.

👍 fatboy

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

> far more fair distribution of power

How do you define power? Do you mean decisions about code changes and hard forks? Do you mean Steem Power? If SP, what do you suggest? Should we be able to take SP from some accounts and give it to others or should we just change how new Steem Power is created to favor small accounts? If we favor small accounts, what's to prevent Sybil Attacks where one person can create a bunch of small accounts and take more of the reward pool than they should (especially with self-upvoting)? We've already seen this abuse with the flattened reward curve.

>  an increase in the number of witnesses

Do you mean the top 20 should be increased? If so, why? The role they serve is to secure the blockchain and create new blocks. Adding more is not needed for the protocol to function any better. Do you suggest the reward given to the top witnesses should be decreased? If so, some projects they fund might lose funding as it will become to expensive to maintain full API nodes and such. I'm not saying this isn't a bad idea, and maybe the rewards should decrease, I just want to make sure we consider the risks. If few people want to be full-time witnesses (it is a 24-hour a day on call job), then the entire Steem platform could have some systemic risks and instability.

> the wealthy have far too much power on this site

Again, what do you mean by power? Do you mean in terms of flagging or determining who gets rewards and who doesn't because of their Steem Power votes on posts?

I don't think the world will ever be full egalitarian. Every attempt at it that I've seen throughout history has lead to violence and even poverty. Using stores of value as a way to influence systems is a much better approach than violence, IMO. It's also open to anyone who is willing to dedicate themselves to earning wealth. I see a dollar bill as a certificate of appreciation (to quote Rabbi Daniel Lapin) because you can only get one if you provide value to someone else.

At least, that's how it's supposed to work. Fiat currency controlled by central bankers and governments kind of screws that up.

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@michellecarter · Sep 3 '17

$0.80

Wow not that many people voting for witnesses then. 
Thanks for the information and great to see a photo of you. You can tell a lot by seeing someone's eyes! You have integrity! & also my 27th vote!!

I think the Steemit is very confusing for many people and must be even harder if English isn't your 1st language.
With all those inactive accounts, do they stay open indefinitely? I get the absolute basics about the blockchain only, so isn't having lots of inactive accounts kind of wasting space or blocking it up?
I love that you 'want to help create a world we all want to live in', me too. What I loved when I was finding out about steemit was that like minded people could connect and do good in the world. It seems very spread out though and many whose focus is just to make money!
Thanks for all your hard work.

👍 lukestokes

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@lukestokes · Sep 4 '17

Thank you for your support!

Yes, Steemit is a bit confusing and the learning curve is steep, but I think it's worth it. As for inactive accounts, it's similar to generating bitcoin addresses. They don't really take up space, they just exist. Now useless spam on the network... now that's a different story.

Thank you for your encouragement. :)

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@michellecarter · Sep 4 '17

You're welcome! 

Thanks for your reply and answer. May the useless spam be reduced!

Blessings! :)

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@netuoso · Aug 1 '17

$7.08

Good statistics here @lukestokes. I might have to add you to my votes. In a witness too and been helping to host additional servers during these issues we've been having. Working on setting up a full node as we speak actually. 

Sucks to have so many abstaining from voting just because they don't understand it.

👍 acidyo, netuoso, pharesim, jraysteem

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$2.08

I've been seeing the work you're putting in over on the steemit chat witness channel. Thank you!

👍 netuoso, jraysteem

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@orionschariot · Aug 1 '17

$0.25

Glad you posted this.  I had already voted and thought I had assigned a proxy, which I hadn't.  Fixed that.  Keep up the great work!

👍 orionschariot

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Thank you! That's interesting, because I see the unvote and the proxy to @lukestokes.mhth (which I have proxied to @lukestokes). Since @lukestokes also votes for @lukestokes.mhth as a witness then I guess that should work and I should still have your vote. At least, I hope I do. :)

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@paulanthony · Aug 3 '17

done

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@polem · Aug 2 '17

Very important, the information is very useful, thanks @lukestokes

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@polem · Aug 2 '17

i have voted for @lukestokes

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@jimbobbill · Aug 2 '17

And if the people who created Steemit want Luke to be a witness he will. Your vote will have absolutley nothing to do with it.

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@poocut · Aug 1 '17

i have voted for @lukestokes.mhth, I hope  your ranking increases !!!

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Thank you!

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@quinneaker · Aug 14 '17

This topic is so important yet, few are really talking about it and as your stats show doing anything about it either. 
This is a well done post and something we need more attention to!
I featured this post as a must read in my new Episode to try and promote this knowledge. 
Keep up the great work!

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@lukestokes · Aug 14 '17

$0.03

Thank you. I will be doing a weekly version of it. You can see the latest stats here: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/the-witness-voting-engagement-report-2017-08-08

👍 quinneaker

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@quinneaker · Aug 15 '17

Oh great!
I will be sure to check that out and highlight it again at some point!
Keep up the great work!

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@rawpride · Aug 1 '17

I vote for a couple, but I need to use more votes

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@robbieretard · Aug 2 '17

Until I read this post I was not voting for any witnesses but this post has changed all that.

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@rtdcs · Aug 2 '17

Thanks for sharing this information my friend!

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

You're welcome!

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@sabrin514 · Aug 1 '17

Thanks for posting this. I am new to Steemit and am still confused as to the difference between a witness and a regular user is. Can anyone please explain this in simple terms or refer me someplace to learn? Thanks!

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Please see the link in my post. <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future</a> and read the Steemit FAQ I link to from there.

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@sadekj · Aug 1 '17

$0.03

1- Thank you @lukestokes. This was very useful. Please, post it regularly and improve it along the way. The more indicators we have about the status of steem, the better.

2- Can you please also find out the % by steem power ? @dan has argued that the % would be higher.

3- The % of voting users are worrying. It seems that [Vitalik has a valid point](https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6qm0y2/is_the_ethereum_team_defending_their_ground/). 

4- Another worrying number is the number of inactive users. More details are needed here?

5- I have discovered the importance of voting about a month ago, thanks to @timcliff. I have been watching witnesses since then and voting. 

6- I have been following you. I like your posts, but I did not know you were a witness. I will check your activity as a witness. If I see that you are as good a witness as you are a blogger, I will vote for you.

👍 sadekj

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Great ideas, thank you!

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@sc-steemit · Aug 1 '17

$1.39

# Great investigation @lukestokes! 
I had not thought it would be as bad as this! Having a 7.5% share of users voting for at least one witness and the rest nothing is really really bad. If all the small guys and gals bundled together it would make a huge dent in the board of witnesses.

I'm an active Witness and are also a very strong writer about how important it is to make a vote. I write constantly about the issues about dead witnesses as well as inactive witnesses.

I recently started up my project "[Project Minnow Witness](https://steemit.com/minnowwitness/@sc-steemit/starting-up-project-minnow-witness-current-report-end-of-july)" to let everyone that wishes to use me as a Proxy for voting on the new and upcoming witnesses that still does a very good job. My criteria may be strict, but they are just.

Some posts I've been writing about the situation of witnesses in the past:
- [Only 3 out of the top 20 witnesses support increased blocksizes; Steem Update 19.1 solution!](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@sc-steemit/only-3-out-of-the-top-20-witnesses-support-increased-blocksizes-steem-update-19-1-solution)
- [Witnesses, Why haven't you updated yet!?](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@sc-steemit/witnesses-why-haven-t-you-updated-yet)
- [The Difference of Votes and "Witness Votes"; Don't waste your Witness Votes on Dead Witnesses!](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@sc-steemit/the-difference-of-votes-and-witness-votes-don-t-waste-your-witness-votes-on-dead-witnesses)
- [Starting up "Project Minnow Witness"; Current Report End of July](https://steemit.com/minnowwitness/@sc-steemit/starting-up-project-minnow-witness-current-report-end-of-july)

👍 cm-steem, bullshark, sadekj, sc-steemit

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.59

Excellent work, thank you for spreading the word! I've noticed you've been doing some great stuff, and I love that you're so helpful for those getting into Gridcoin. I may have to change something up in my voting to find a spot for you! :)

👍 cm-steem, bullshark, sadekj

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@sc-steemit · Aug 1 '17

$2.06

#### I do what I can with the shares I got :) 
Any support is greatly appreciated, but fully voluntary. I would never beg for votes. If you or anyone finds what I do good, then I'm happy. A vote is great support for me and helps me do even more good work however (^.^)

👍 lukestokes, enki, cm-steem, bullshark, lukestokes.mhth, albertogm, sadekj

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@sadekj · Aug 1 '17

$0.27

Thanks for your efforts @sc-steemit. 
1- I have voted for as a witness.
2- Do you have a post about active witnesses that are not in top 50?

👍 bullshark, sc-steemit, sadekj

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@sc-steemit · Aug 1 '17

$0.22

The witnesses I mention at the bottom of this is the ones I've picked as good active witnesses.
https://steemit.com/minnowwitness/@sc-steemit/starting-up-project-minnow-witness-current-report-end-of-july

I regard a good active witness a person that looks after and takes care of the technical things of having to make sure it runs well and gets updated. I'm **not** basing them on how many articles they do, what side projects they do or how many followers they have.

👍 bullshark, sadekj

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@stackin · Aug 1 '17

I voted :)

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.04

Thanks :)

👍 stackin

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@stellabelle · Aug 2 '17

this was fascinating and something I wanted to know as well. Great work!

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Thanks @stellabelle! Really glad you found them as useful as I did.

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@stonesteem · Aug 1 '17

$0.44

Very astounding chart. You'd think that list of people making money would at least vote. I have to check whether I've voted for you yet. I will check in a few minutes. I have three votes left!

👍 good-karma, adept, feruz, esteemapp, bounties, steempoll, demo, tipping, mysteem, mondeja, sportsprediction, sellergenius, sdibot

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Thanks for considering me! :)

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@sumatranate · Aug 1 '17

@lukestokes, I understand the need to vote for witnesses.  Without strong leadership it is hard to keep the Steemit movement going.

However, I do not feel that posts from witnesses alway give me a great idea of what issues are most important to those people.

Do you have any suggestions or resources on how to find out the issues that witnesses care about most?

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

That's a really great question and unfortunately it's not so easy to answer. It took me a while to get to know people on Steemit and in the chat and understand where they are coming from. Right now, other than just spending time building relationships, one of the best ways is to follow @timcliff and keep and eye for his weekly <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@timcliff/the-reports-from-the-witnesses-2017-07-30">Witness Update report</a>.

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@summerskin · Aug 1 '17

$1.46

I have voted for witnesses and have 18 witness votes remaining, but I do not just want to randomly vote for people just to use up my votes. I saw that you can have someone more knowledgeable vote for you, but it seems it would erase all your previous votes. Is there a way to assign my last 18 votes by proxy without erasing the votes I have already submitted?

👍 blueorgy, good-karma, fatboy, bullshark, heroic15397, feruz, esteemapp, robbieretard, dunsky, bounties, steempoll, demo, tipping, mysteem, sdibot

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$0.03

Unfortunately, no. Using a proxy is an all or nothing approach. If you're voting, cool! No need for a proxy voter, in that case.

👍 summerskin, heroic15397

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@ilvstranger · Aug 1 '17

So if i daily vote i should not use proxy? That, when i would sorted out and know to do it :-)

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@summerskin · Aug 1 '17

Thank you for the reply; much appreciated!

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@scottsantens · Aug 1 '17

$0.59

I think it would be really helpful if a post like this included how exactly to go about voting for a witness.

👍 blueorgy, scottsantens, ilvstranger

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@blueorgy · Aug 1 '17

$0.42

# Voting for a Witness #
1. Go to the <a href='https://steemit.com/~witnesses'>witness voting page</a> on SteemIt.com
2. Press upvote next to the witnesses you'd like to vote for...
3. For witnesses not in top 50 like myself 
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and locate the vote box (seen below with a vote for me 😉)
3. Input a witness username and hit vote.
![Screen Shot 2017-07-27 at 3.30.57 PM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTTEHo5gmAF6quNMCJe2h4czzVNhamvtaEVZmDDKBrgo8/Screen%20Shot%202017-07-27%20at%203.30.57%20PM.png)
4. Rejoice in self achievement!

👍 thorheit, bullshark, vsf, sc-steemit

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

$2.91

Hello Scott. I did include it, but I made the text small. Maybe I should have made it big instead! Haha.

> If you're not sure what a witness vote is, or why it's important, please see this post from a couple months ago: <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future</a>.

👍 lukestokes, enki, lukestokes.mhth, albertogm

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@paprikachips · Aug 1 '17

I agree, I didn't even know what a witness was. Still not sure that I do. Is it like a bitcoin node?

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@stellabelle · Aug 2 '17

$1.52

I have a few suggestions for witnesses......
@timcliff
@yunkzilla
@drakos
@clayop
@gtg
well, more if you're interested...

👍 lukestokes, enki, lukestokes.mhth, albertogm, summerskin

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@lukestokes · Aug 2 '17

Ah, but what is Yunk, anyway? Hehehe. As soon as you define it, the magic is gone. :)

Good list.

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@summerskin · Aug 2 '17

Thank you so much. I've been following you since I joined, and have high confidence in your recommendations.

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@sureshgajera · Aug 1 '17

Nice post

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@teamsteem · Aug 1 '17

I always wanted to know that information. What would be even more interesting is the % of stake that is voting. I'm not sure how it could be calculated. I guess all MV supporting witness should be added...

👍 heroic15397

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

I'll be playing around with the numbers more over time to include some VEST-based evaluations.

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@vm2904 · Aug 4 '17

@lukestokes -**Stumbled upon this post while preparing my blog today (was just trying to get an idea of engagement on steemit) and the search threw up this post.  Looks like I had missed this one.  I have already voted for witnesses (including your lukestokes.mhth witness account) So I am proud to be a part of the 7.5% steemians who have done so.  However, my witness voting is limited to those with whom I have had a bit of an interaction.**  My knowledge of what may be best for Steemit as a whole also is limited though every day I am learning more.  Therefore, perhaps witness proxy with someone knowledgeable like you may make sense till I learn more.   Thanks for the idea and the informative report.

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@lukestokes · Aug 4 '17

Glad you found it useful! :)

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@woz.software · Aug 1 '17

I have a witness vote in place but only because I mainly look through the dev and crypto areas on steem and found out about witness votes that way.

I think when you sign up there should be a quick TLDR overview of the platform. 

I am sure there are many that sign up seeing a reddit that you can get paid and do not dig deeper than that :)

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

Yeah, I agree. It's a knowledge gap problem.

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@zeidlitwhips · Aug 1 '17

Hey @lukestokes, how do I set up a proxy and how does it function? I'm new to steemit and I've voted for around 20 Witnesses but I don't know how it really works

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@lukestokes · Aug 1 '17

If you voted for witnesses already, you don't need to set a proxy. You can find out more in <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/steemit-is-free-but-your-witness-vote-determines-its-future">this post</a> I linked to (using small text) in the OP.

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@zeidlitwhips · Aug 1 '17

Ok thanks for that and I'll go vote for you shortly, got quiet busy after I commented. Cheers

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@zeidlitwhips · Aug 1 '17

I tried to vote for you it said account doesn't exist, my bad I read in a hurry. I like giving a vote to those who really make a difference and are always advising about something on Steemit which we don't know.... I speak as a newbie whose here for the long run and will continue investigating whatever I get on Steemit. Cheers for the great intuitive posts

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@zeidlitwhips · Aug 1 '17

The mistake I did is I only put @lukestokes didn't put the full name as said on your wall 👉 @lukestokes.mhth . Check in few minutes it will be done. Sorry for the many replies

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albertogm	5,050,434,423	10%
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sc-steemit	4,937,656,122	10%
sadekj	5,711,756,269	100%
bullshark	50,538,470,998	100%

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sadekj	4,789,360,846	100%
bullshark	45,561,197,339	100%

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sadekj	5,711,756,269	100%
bullshark	49,389,869,384	100%