RE: Anyone Can be a WITNESS - meet @wakucat
Yes, it's a situation that arose since the fork, but I'm happy to see that little by little more developers are joining the platform, and those ghost or dead witnesses have been left behind.
It's not a question of permission, it's respect for the guild.
The title isn't a criticism, it's just that (when I read it) I thought about it. That anyone who's interested can be one. If you have the will and the resources, you can do it. Promotion isn't superfluous; it's all advertising. Or perhaps, in your country, politicians don't come around offering you to vote for this or that person. It all depends on how we see it. For example, if you made this post about your launch as a witness, it's because you want to be visible to try to get votes. This, apart from being normal, is necessary.
The ghosts are visible and will not be removed, and more and more developers aren't the solution. The only thing that can be done is a hardfork to remove them (with or without risks) or make this enormous list with "ghost witnesses" invisible at first sight, since they dominate everything and for that all active witnesses or should we say servers should be visible which isn't the case. It's even impossible to vote for them unless you have the names. I tried it but there's no way for me to load them.
Actually, I didn't make this post to be visible as a witness. It's a freewrite and I started with a prompt for a title and the first part of text. Next it is what freewrites look like, a flow of the brain, and after 10 minutes of writing this is the result. If you never freewrite for real for sure real freewrites will baffle you and might even look chaotic.
Should I promote myself and beg for votes? I tell what I do and stick to my word and will see what I can do to make Steemit more visible. I shared plenty of options during the past months and noticed are big part of them are picked up by others.
To me this is not about fighting others, being in competition, not as a witness, not as a person or with my communities. You might find this stupid, but who knows I am not the greedy or more aware of what is going on for real and like anyone else I am not immortal. I do what I believe feels good, which is more like a giving back way more than I ever received and unlike many others, I am not rich and no big fish. I am also not an idiot who doesn't see I am used or should I say abused? Still this is me and it's my choice.
I wish you a creative weekend.
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