Can Your Witness Vote Really Make a Difference? See for yourself.

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As per the data collected over the past week from steemian.info:

51,895 votes are cast for inactive witnesses (dead witnesses).

= a grand total of 202,368 MV worth of votes


Which is more than enough to put any 4 active witnesses into the top20!

Or more, depending on where the witness is currently on the ladder.


Basically, what this means is that with the current votes that us Steemians have out there we can literally change any and all of the governance within our ecosystem.

I am only talking about the people who have active votes in place.

So, the next time anyone says “My vote can't make a difference“ or something along those lines, there it is.

YOUR VOTE CAN MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.

So I would kindly ask all the 26,009 Steemians who are voting on dead witnesses to please take into consideration the fact that THESE VOTES CAN MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE!

I have (will) gone ahead and tagged all Steemians who have voted on dead witnesses, as this is the prime target of this information here.

I don’t know how else to get their attention, except for maybe sending DM’s via Discord for the next 3450 days in a row. I think this is easier and more effective.

NOTE: I am not judging anyones choices/vote, all I wish to do is to point out the fact that your votes can make a real difference and that there are many of us witnesses who are active and who sincerely care about Steem, no matter what the market prices may be. We are in it for the long run.

PS. As was suggested in the comments below, here are two links where you can take care of witness voting:

https://www.steemian.info/witnesses

&

https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses

& here is another great tool out there to check on witness votes: http://duplibot.com/deadwitnesses

(again, a link supplied via a comment in this thread).

Yours truly,
@jackmiller

If you want an avatar and other graphics like my “Robotroo” contact @jimramones

STEEM ON!

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NOTE: if you were tagged, all that means is that in the past week of collecting data you had one or more witness votes which were for inactive witnesses. With this tag/post, all I wish to do is to suggest how your vote can make a difference in our governance as per our Steem ecosystem.

Thank you for your time and I sincerely hope that you shall take a moment to think about the importance of the point that I am trying to make here via this post.

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I voted for dead witnesses once but I got a message in my wallet (as 0.001Steem transfer) from someone stating that the witness I voted for is no longer active. I think it's another way to let people know.

EDIT: I'm now you mention in this post? I think I have to see my witness list again then.

EDIT2: Fixed! Didn't know that #utopian-io is no longer a witness!

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I am so glad to see that my efforts are actually achieving results.

Thank you for replying, it really means a lot to me.

STEEM ON!

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How do we know the living witnesses?

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When you go to ~witnesses any dead witness will be marked with the words "(disabled X weeks ago)" beside its name.

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Thank you, @ahmadmanga! I think this works if the witness is in the top 100, but what if s/he is outside this list? I removed one that I suspect was inactive but there are two more and there is no way to see their witness status from steemit...

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I personally use www.steemian.info as a great tool to see all the details.

I highly recommend it.

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Hmm interesting. I didn't know the witness I voted for was inactive x)
Any easy way to check if someone is inactive??

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Hey Jack. Thanks for the tag. When did you run your check I nixed my dead witness a couple of weeks ago. Will go back to double check. Cheers x

EDIT: yup you're right, someone else went inactive 8 days ago. Just goes to show you need to check it at least weekly! Thanks for the heads up xx

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Mate, I went over it all twice in the past 7 days.

If you or anyone has been there and done that in the meantime, sure, slap me on the wrist.

NHF, all I am trying to do is to show just how important and INFLUENTIAL EVERY VOTE IS.

It all adds up and they can make a real BIG DIFFERENCE!

Our Proof of Stake voting system works! (it can work, if we all vote)

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Well it was an excellent lesson for me... Thank you! I thought I was on top of 8t, but like I said above, another witness had disabled since I checked. No wrist slapping here- just sincere thanks for opening my eyes!! E x

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Partiko says i am mentioned but i dont see my Name here

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All tags were posted and removed so as to ensure there is no "list" on the front end.

The goal here isn't to make a "list", but to nudge people in the hope to get everyone thinking about just how important our responsibilities as Steemians and voters are.

We do have the power to change things if we want to.

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Hahaha yeah @felix.herrmann.

Apparently, I also was mentioned and I can't see my username throughout the post either.

I suspect @jackmiller must be playing with some Voodoo dolls or something with some resemblance to us to attract our attention to his posts. ;p

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Check the HTML code of the post and you will find your name along with plenty of others.

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Einfach den HTML-Code anzeigen lassen.

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How do i find Out inactive whitnesses? Sorry just found the answer.

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Cool, if you have any questions, please go ahead and ask, I'll be here, love Steeming on!

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Thanks for the reminder I've been meaning to go through my votes.

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Friendly reminder never hurts!

Would be better if it was over a couple of friendly drinks, but that day will come too!
Then we can chuckle about the "life and times of us Steemians"

Cheers mate.

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I did not vote for many witnesses. They were still "alive" at the time of my vote.

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I am sure they were.

Thank you for replying and reading the post, your vote is just as important as anyone elses and it makes a huge difference.

Cheers.

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Thanks for the heads up. I am in good company I see 😆
Will change my vote when I get home😳

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Any time, together our votes can make a HUGE difference.

I am so happy to see everyone so positive about it.

Thanks!

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Hey @jackmiller thanks for the heads up. Have dropped a couple of dead witnesses, not been spending as much time on here as I was. A couple were really big surprises. What happened to @utopian-io ? Any you could recommend I check out and add to my witness list.

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Hey mate, hows it going?

My goal here was to show just how much of a difference all of us can make if we vote and the above numbers do not include our fellow Steemians who do not vote at all.

So imagine the power of the people if we all voted!

WOW.

As for recommendations, my views are as follows:

"Each persons vote is a private choice".

I hope you can accept and appreciate my stand on that.

Nice to hear from you, have to admit, I've been a little overwhelmed with real life stuff toooo.

Hope to see you around more often.

Cheers.

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Appreciate your position on recommendations. Will see if I can find a couple of deserving Steemians to put my witness vote behind.

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@jackmiller thanks for tagging me man. We need to give our votes to the people who really working hard and active on block chain irrespective of steem price. Hope this post will make people to check their votes once again and give to the witnesses who deserve them. 51,895 is a huge number, it can be decide who lead here.

We also need to check about witnesses who simply milking out the system with out adding any real value worth they are earning through block chain.

Once again thanks for tagging me and reminding the importance of my witness vote.

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We the people (we Steemians) do have the power to change things!

Our Steem ecosystem works and all it takes is for us to do our bit!

Thanks for this great comment, just gave me a bunch of energy to keeeeep STEEEEEMING ON!

STEEM ON BRO!

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Thanks for the heads up. I will be reviewing my witness votes today. You make a good point and I was only moaning about the witness system the other day in a comment.

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It is up to all of us to make a difference, our Steem ecosystem works, if we make it work!

Thanks for taking the time to read the post and for taking action upon it.

Cheers.

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Thanks for the shout out @jackmiller. I just changed some of the inactive witness votes to active witnesses. Thanks!

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Thank you.

You and everyone here has just made my day, my efforts are actually making a difference on this topic and it feels fantastic.

Cheers.

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Appreciate you bringing this to my — and indeed all — our attention.

I went through and fixed up my witness votes a few months back (probably start of the year), so it’s good to know I have to go re-check.

Absolutely our votes make a difference!!!!

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Hmmm how do you mention someone without mentioning them? Tag them and then remove the tag??? 🤔🤔🤔

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Yes, so as to ensure the post and message are clear, I removed the tags.

The tags were simply a tool so as to ensure that the relevant Steemians were made aware of the fact that within the past week they had/have witness votes for inactive/dead witnesses.

Apart from that, there is absolutely no need for the tags to remain in the post as this is not a "list" of people, it is a friendly reminder and a message to all of us out there that our votes do make a real difference.

Cheers.

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Thank you, @jackmiller, I think I removed the inactive witness from my list but I couldn't be 100% sure as I still have 2 witnesses outside the top 100 list.

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How to know which witness is inactive?

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I personally use https://www.steemian.info/witnesses

& this is the tool/website that I always recommend.

There you can see all the active and inactive (dead) witnesses).

It is a great tool.

The other way to do it is:

https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses

There you will see the top100 listing of witnesses and next to each name that is inactive/dead you will see a note stating it.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask, I am here and will do my best to help.

Cheers.

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Hello! Thank you for this but could you help me identify the dead witnesses and how do I change it because I honestly forgot how to do it. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Sure, it would be my pleasure.

I personally use https://www.steemian.info/witnesses

& this is the tool/website that I always recommend.

There you can see all the active and inactive (dead) witnesses).

It is a great tool.

The other way to do it is:

https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses

There you will see the top100 listing of witnesses and next to each name that is inactive/dead you will see a note stating it.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask, I am here and will do my best to help.

Cheers.

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I was tagged but can't find my acct on the post,how did you do that? haha cool

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Thank you so much for participating in the Partiko Delegation Plan Round 1! We really appreciate your support! As part of the delegation benefits, we just gave you a 3.00% upvote! Together, let’s change the world!

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This is an aspect of Steem that is completely unintelligible to newbies.

And figuring out who to vote for is very hard.

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Yes, it is all a lot to take in and understand for many people.

There are many communities out there trying to help in making it all easier to understand.

One of the issues in the past was that we Steemians didn't have a place to go to and see what us Witnesses were posting about (relevant to witness topics).

So I made:

https://steemit.com/@witnesspage

It is all automated and all the posts made by Steem Witnesses using the relevant tags #witness, #witness-category or #witness-update are resteemed there.

Afterwards I went ahead and slapped together a simple website:

http://www.witnesspage.com/

again, just to try and help in that field.

As with most people, it just takes time to soak it all in and get up to speed with everything.

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I'm forever in a quest to find the best and easiest ways to explain technical stuff to people that doesn't cause their eyes to glaze over.

With a system like Facebook and Twitter, ultimate power is handed to Zuck or Jack and the executives and functionaries who end up working there and self selecting people like themselves into prominent roles. At first their full of technical people who built the systems and eventually these transition to the kinds of people more comfortable dealing with people than technology (modians vs mundians as my friend dubbed it).

Steem Witnesses are not quite analogous but they move the centralised control of these other systems out to a decentralised and more democratic system. It's not perfect (and lord knows neither is democracy) but it sure beats the way in which all the other big networks have been captured by the hard-left.

Tell me if any of that is even remotely true!

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I dare say that the figures that are stated in the post here confirm your general point of view.

As per our Steem Whitepaper, the witnesses are = governance.

We choose our governance which in effect gives us Steemians the power to have our say in the future of our Steem.

I am very BIAS, I truly see the potential that Steem has to offer this world of ours, with over 80% of the worlds population living on under $10 a day, we literally can change so many lives out there.

Plus, set a precedence that has never to date been seen in any of the "governance" models to date.

Steem has incredible potential and a lot of it depends on the vision and goals and not just the "here and now" as what too many out there seem to be stuck on.

STEEM ON!

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I was not aware that I currently vote for dead producers. Thank you for mentioning. Even tho I am not very active I want others to have a good experience and I will update my votes soon

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Your vote matters!

As does everyones.

Each and every Steemian is important in our ecosystem.

STEEM ON!

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uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh so much work , it was mainly those unnamed ones I had to type in to even vote for. Removed. Took like 5minutes to find people outside top 20 to vote for again. 5minutes, amagawd I can't even . Am I now a government tool?

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Based on the facts and figures collected, it is up to all of us Steemians to make our ecosystem become everything it can be!

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Thank you for the heads up @jackmiller.

Yeah, I know that I must have at least a handful of dead/inactive witness in my short list.

But hey, that was the reason of why I started the workshop of embalming corpses a few months ago. So, if I go ahead and I take out my vote on them. ¿What I'm gonna do with my taxidermist diploma now? }:)

PS. Oh! and by the way. Maybe you'd want to refer to your readers to https://steemian.info/witnesses website. Where I reckon it's easier to check the current witnesses status and remove or place new votes.

Cheers!!

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Good idea, will edit the post right now.

Thanks for that.

People helping people, love it!

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People helping people, love it!

My pleasure mate!! :)

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I really appreciate your suggestions and opinions that really help us, thank you.

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Many thanks for reminder I find a good solution into Steem Peak you can make it very easy greetings Michael

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Well done, this seems the only way to get attention. I was going to ignore it as tag-spam but then saw the post title. Funnily, edited my witnesses just a few days ago but... you're right, one has been disabled very recently. Although one also mustn't make assumptions - a change of server and full blockchain reconstruction can take a few days. Anyway, cheers!

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Thank you for reading the post and not assuming things.

I am actually getting to a point where I seriously don't care about any negative reactions as long as the job gets done for the right reasons

Not the best of attitudes, but after months of trying via Discord and not having practically any success in it, I figured:

"What the heck, what happens happens, as long as the message gets out there I am happy".

But, after all these positive comments, it has given me a lot of adrenaline as I see heaps of positivity out there and willingness to make our Steem ecosystem work as coded.

Thanks for the reply, really appreciate it.

Cheers.

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Hello sir. I have voted for those witness early years ago, and have not fixed yet. Thanks for tagging me, I will check them short later.

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The problem is, that i do not know to who should i give my vote. I didnt notice that i have some vote given to dead witnesses but i know i do have planty of free votes to give away. I just dont know who is worth it. And dont know how and where i could find some real info.

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I can suggest that you check out the following:

http://www.witnesspage.com/

as a starting point, then follow:

https://steemit.com/@witnesspage

where all the posts made by Steem Witnesses using the relevant tags #witness, #witness-category or #witness-update

So you can get in your feed the posts from our witnesses.

As for voting, it is a personal choice and there is absolutely nothing wrong with changing your votes as you go along through your Steemian experience.

I hope this helps.

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Thanks, I didn´t pay too much attention on this, apparently.
What are the inactive witnesses?
And what would be you top 10 witnesses, worth voting for?

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The "inactive" (dead) witnesses are those that are no longer running a witness server, basically 'they no longer exist as witnesses'.

As for voting, my stand on that is as follows:

"Every persons vote is a personal choice".

I don't want to be a judge of any persons choices, even those that choose not to vote, even if I don't agree with "non voting" I don't judge people for making that choice.

There is no time limit as to when you can vote for witnesses, so if you are not sure as to who you wish to vote for, take your time.
As long as you understand that your vote is important and does make a huge difference, because each and every person matters in our ecosystem, I am sure that you will take care of it when you are ready to do so.

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask, I will be around.

Cheers.

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Thank you so much for the reminder my friend 😉👍
I corrected it now and I honestly need to look over my list some more. Like you say.. The vote matters and makes a difference... So want to do it right 😉❤️

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I am amazed at just how positively everyone is taking it and wanting to pitch into making our Steem ecosystem everything it can be.

The responses here are great and I am sure that it will make a difference.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Cheers.

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Don't be surprised...its the way you made the post and it's not like you pointing fingers, you just trying to help.
And who doesn't appreciate it?
Ohh... And then a lot of it might be cause your amazing too 😜👍🤗 lol
Again Thank you for all you do!

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I have chosen you as a witness

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Thank you.

I will keep doing my best to make sure I earn it.

& thank you for reading the post and checking your witness votes, it really means a lot to our Steem ecosystem.

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Thanks a lot for reminder me .. send me the links to check it please..!!

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Thanks man! This was a really really really good reminder and I admire your effort to create that post. And the tagging/removing move is really really smart :P

I had 2 inactive witnesses I've voted manually and for those votes you don't really see of they are active or not. At least o steemitwallet. Steemian.info is a bomb for researching thatvkind of stuff.

Thanks for reminding and analysis!

Peace!

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Man, I am glad that we are making a difference.

Step by step, we shall make Steem everything it can be!

Cheers!

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Thank you for tagging me here, I knew it was time to look over my votes but it hadn't made the top of my list yet.
I'm glad I vote and follow the one and only @jackmiller!

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You received more than 55000 upvotes. Your next target is to reach 60000 upvotes.

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Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
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donre! removed utopian-io (only)
post resteemed...

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Thanks for the new tool you have my vote. Is there a way for the steemian tool to show all of my active votes?

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TY for the support, I will keep doing my best to deserve it.

& thank you for reading the post and taking action on it, together we can make Steem into everything it can be!

STEEM ON.

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Thanks, @jackmiller, I appreciate the heads up.

I'll check into it ASAP, though I have a recalcitrant laptop, and . . . oh joy . . . we just lost power. ;-/

I'd still like to have that conversation with you about The Last Wave one of these days.

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Ohhh, I actually watched that movie twice now and have thought about it many times.

It was way ahead of its time on so many things.

I really appreciate the fact that you suggested it to me.

As for the witness votes, yeah, still battling at making our Steem ecosystem work the best that it can, including the witness votes / governance. It is an on going job and tbh, I enjoy doing it. Every step of the way I know that what is done today in helping people to get informed and more active in our governance the better off our Steem shall be in the long run!

Cheers.

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Yeah, I've loved that film since I saw it in the theatre, and I've seen it a few times since downloading it. I'm so hooked I've got it on my phone. :-)

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I think you tagged me, but it looks like all mine are active. I have made a couple of adjustments based on what I have seen people doing (good or bad). I try to use all my votes.

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Sorry mate, if I made a mistake it wasn't intentional.

I literally went one by one on the inactive witnesses, copy pasted their voters lists.

That is the source of info for voters lists.

IOU a round of beers when we see each other one day, a friendly "Round on me" as friends do.

One out of 26K people isn't that bad!

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No problem mate. I ought to check my votes more often. I would like to see more people actually vote. I have done a few posts about it with some suggestions of good witnesses who help make Steem better.

I'll hold you to that !BEER offer :)

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Oh, don't go telling us now it was not intentional.
I didn't know about you being a witness before.

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I can assure you it wasn't intentional on Jackmillers part if people were tagged and they have changed their votes in the last 7 days.

I have been in @thealliance chat room with @jackmiller as he went, one by one, checking each name over the last 7 days. If you have changed your votes in the last 7 days your name might be there by mistake.

Based on the positive response to this post you seem to be the only person upset by being reminded that you have/had dead witnesses you are voting for.

How is this a bad thing to inform people, not all, but ones that do have dead witnesses they are voting for, that they should double check and at least remove their vote?

Nowhere has he asked for a vote. Nowhere has he told people who to vote for. Is it so hard to realize there are honest people in the world?

JackMiller has made it to every Witness chat that @Shadowspub has had in The Ramble Discord. so I'm not sure how you have not known he wasn't a Witness. He has been in the top 50 witnesses for over a year.

Have a nice Sunday.

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I certainly am or was not the only person being irritated about being tagged (not the other stuff!) but obviously the only one showing it that clearly.

And I as I just mentioned in my reply to @shadowspub I currently have very few time during the week to check Steemit or the chats. Even before I was assigned to the course I'm attending now I did not find the time to attend the mentioned radio shows.
You both probably would have noticed if I had since my (German) nickname is not that common. :)

checking each name over the last 7 days

Ouch. I did not dare to know that actually. He's got the numbers up at the beginning of the post. Still, it's some privacy issue. Even if there's an easy way to retrieve a user's witness votes list.

I register a clear disapproval of me being not spending my awake time on Steemit. Well, I did that for some months and it did not do good for my mental state. I'm glad I'm not staying at home all day having no options to escape hopelessness.
Thus, it's simply not true that I don't pay attention at all.

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I register a clear disapproval of me being not spending my awake time on Steemit.

no, not disapproval at all. You ARE correct that spending your whole day on Steem is NOT healthy!! You can make yourself a tad insane if you try it.

There is a 24/7 voice chat in The Alliance that I stop in here and there when I have time. We laugh and talk about things from Poker to building pools.
I was referring to you saying you never heard of @jackmiller when he is very active on the blockchain.
saying that......there are many people that are very active that I don't know. I might have heard of them or if not I ask someone I know if they have.

Still, it's some privacy issue.

The whole point of a blockchain is that nothing is private. Everyone can find out everything you have ever done. Am I one to look in people's wallets or any deeper? no. not at all. I don't care what people have or not have. Do I think some look into my stuff if I leave a comment they might not like? I'm sure they do.....do I have to like it? no, but the power of a blockchain is you can not hide anything.

thanks for getting back to me!

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Really? You apparently don't pay much attention to what is going around the platform.

Jack is one of the better witnesses who really does a lot of work for the community. He certainly doesn't deserve your grief while doing a service to those who are voting on inactive witnesses.

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I'm paying the attention I can manage to afford. Days are not of infinite length and I don't have unlimited and free internet access during the days of the work week but mostly none at all. Which basically is why I was angry. It's not related to the person but to being tagged.

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well, maybe another way to look at the tag is that it brought your attention to something that you didn't have the time to hunt down until you knew there was a reason?

I know some folks engage in tag spam and when I encounter it I'm more than willing to slap them down or report them to steemcleaners. I usually check out what they are doing first. If its well meaning I leave it alone.

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Excellent idea!!! Finally my vote can make a real difference!!! Waaaoo enhorabuena!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏thank you very much for great news!! You have my support for that beautiful activity, I like to read and vote!

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I bet neither of the tagged persons has ever tagged or blocked you before.
Pkease adjust your measures of spam.
You cannot check our witness votes for a reason.

I really feel like flagging your post now.

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Please read the post again and if you really feel like downvoting (aka flagging) the post, that is your right to do so.

I have absolutely no objections to you expressing your opinions or views in ways that you believe are suitable in the given individual situations.

Wish you a great day.

Cheers.

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Well actually your witness votes can be checked. You have voted for 22 out of the 30 you could vote for.

Would you like the list?

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I checked my list today due to this post which - I admit it - made me remove two votes. (After I wrote all the comments.) Before today, I updated it last time when the steemcommunity witness server was turned off.
The two voted witnesses I'm referring to were @fbslo and @sapphic. Both have been minor witnesses before as far as I know. Which makes my decision to vote them in the past questionable anyway. shrugs

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no not really. You were trying to support a smaller witness in the hope they could move up.

If people don't support based on what they think is good choices then the witness votes get stagnant.

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You were trying to support a smaller witness in the hope they could move up.

That's interpretation. I don't believe in my vote that much.
I wanted to show my support because I liked a game from @fbslo and because @sapphic was a female witness. (Are there any female witnesses left now? ;))
Please don't make guesses if you could ask too. :)

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@Patrice is a female witness. She's part of steemcleaners and does some great work on the platform.

And of course there is @crimsonclad who is part of @followbtcnews .. both great choices.

There are women on some of the other team witnesses like @helpie and @justineh who I think is with @c-squared. Again good choices.

@helpie supports newbies and does curation. @c-squared does curation.

do you use Discord by chance? There are several Steem groups on there and that is where radios shows are held

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Thanks for the mention! Yes I’m a part of the c-squared witness team. We are a manual curation group that focuses on opening curation up to the community to ensure great authors are found and receive support.

Anyone can be a curator, completely open initiative and then we choose the best post brought forward by the community and feature on the @c-cubed blog as well for extra exposure and support for the author. We like to think we are the first to truly crowdsourced manual curation on Steem 🙂

We find running a witness to be an important responsibility and take it very seriously. Our goal is to provide a reliable witness ran by a competent team for the community, and all profits earned (after server fees) are given back to the community itself.

That’s my best attempt at promoting our witness haha.. we normally just curate and don’t promote ourselves, so I apologize that I’m rusty at it 😜

Thanks again ❤️

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I'm sorry if I upset you in any way.

Ich bin traurig, wenn ich dich in irgendeiner Weise verärgere.

Sincerely Jack.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen Jack.

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It's thanks to you that I went through and updated my witness list. The effort you put into compiling this list to show that together we all can make a difference is a testament to your caring. Much appreciation! 😎

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Thanks Jack! Didn't know I was! Will check it out tonight and update 🤗

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One from what I see on first glance.

See ya at Fambalam time!

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Is it abh12345 and paulag? I did know about them . I must have forgotten to take them off :)

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Ohhh, you want me to do your homework for you!
That's cheating!

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too many corpses being created.

Now who wants my leftover witness votes?.

hint: if you are a witness and missed a single block, you aren't elegible.

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thanks for the information friend, very grateful!

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How can I change my witness?

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Here are two links where you can take care of witness voting:

https://www.steemian.info/witnesses

&

https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses

and you can check on your current votes (all of them) at:

https://steemd.com/@laxmanmah

(bottom left hand side of the page)

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, I am trying my best to keep up with all the questions both here and on Discord, most of which are about "Where to vote?".

TY for taking the time to help make Steem everything it can be.

STEEM ON!

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What do you think? Whom should I vote?

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Ohhh, your votes are your personal choice.

I don't feel comfortable as a witness to suggest "Whom to vote for".

Please accept my stand on that.

All I will say is that no matter who you vote on, you can change your votes at any time in future, for whatever reasons you as an individual may have and that is your right to do so.

So, whatever your choices may be today, they are not set in concrete, you can always do what you feel is best in future.

With so many active witnesses out there, I am sure that each and every one of us will be more than happy to see a vote given to one of us instead of it sitting on a dead witness.

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Thanks for the reminder. My votes have been cleaned up.

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That is excellent, step by step, we can all contribute to making Steem become the dream!

STEEM ON!

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Thank you. I just changed my list...

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Checking on mine. Thanks for the update.

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I updated my votes.

2 were disabled, one 8 days ago, another one 6 weeks ago!

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Gosh, I'm one of the 26k steemians that voted for at least one inactive witness!
Thanks for the reminder @jackmiller

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With the prices of crypto changing over the past year so drastically, it is no surprise that many who started up a witness server in the days when it was reaaaalllllyyyy profitable are now dead!

So, nhf, but with over 50K votes sitting there, not really helping our ecosystem live up to its potential, we all need to do our bit to get it all back on track.

Thanks for taking the time to read the post and take action.

STEEM ON!

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Thanks for tagging me and for taking the pains to make us all aware

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If I vote I want to know for whom and what I vote and I cannot find that back.

What are inactive witnesses?

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The "inactive" (dead) witnesses are those that are no longer running a witness server, basically 'they no longer exist as witnesses'.

Basically they are not serving our Steem blockchain in any way, manner or form.

As for voting, my stand on that is as follows:

"Every persons vote is a personal choice".

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Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I really appreciate it and am wiser now.
💖👋

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I always have a post for more votes, but I really do not know who to vote for. If I could occupy them to give downvotes it would be good. A very interesting post thanks

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Steem needs all of us for it to work and every witness vote is important.

Steem nos necesita a todos para que funcione y cada voto de testigo es importante.

Sorry if there are mistakes in the translation, I used Google translate.

Your vote is important, that is the message of this post.
Tu voto es importante, ese es el mensaje de este post.

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I thought I stopped voting for inactive witnesses a few months ago, but I guess not. Thanks for bringing it to me attention.

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True yes you should vote for active people on the site

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Ashamed I let mine slip. I guess two of the 3 I had voted outside the top 100 gave it up, and without the new tool you mentioned above, I never would have seen it.

Thanks for tag, I am going back through and adding tags for those whose projects I am following now! This important vote often gets overlooked!

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Thank you for the reminder, I still voted for utopian and forgot to change it xD

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Thanks for notifying and all the information.

I removed that vote and also voted for you.

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Tnx for doing this, I will clean up my witness list!

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Thanks for the mention. I removed my vote for utopian.io. And voted for you!

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Hey @jackmiller, I am unable to see which witness that I have voted for is defunct. Am I missing something?

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I use this page a lot: https://www.steemian.info/witnesses (especially for checking on statuses)

But at first glance here on steemd: https://steemd.com/@oivas

it is the 6th and 8th ones on the list (at the time of writing this comment)

If I can help with anything else, feel free to ask, I usually don't miss questions thrown my way.

Cheers.

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Okay, done. And you got my witness vote. 😊

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TY, I will keep doing my best at everything I do.

I'm glad to see so much positivity and willingness from fellow Steemians to take action on this topic (issue) of dead witnesses.

Wish you a great day and thanks again. You just made my day, starting the day with a surprise and a smile on my face is worth more than what any money can buy!

STEEM ON!

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When I check the witnesses I am voting for, none of them have an inactive note next to them. I removed my vote for those that did. How can I check a step further?

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Hey G'day, sorry for not replying earlier, was out all day today taking care of things that just had to be done.

I just had a look at https://steemd.com/@binkyprod

& the checked the names on https://www.steemian.info/witnesses

At first glance it is number 12 who is no longer active.

I highly recommend https://www.steemian.info as a site for checking up on witness statuses, I use it whenever necessary.

Thanks for taking action on this, the positivity on this is just FANTASTIC!

If you have any, and I mean any questions, feel free to ask, I will get back to you on them, even if it be half a day later like today.

STEEM ON!

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Thank you for the links. I updated some of my witnesses, since I also had a couple free votes and realised some witnesses for whom I thought I was voting for, I wasn't.

I'm still a bit confused about the data found on the info page. What are Missed blocks? And what indicates more specifically that someone is not active?

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Missed blocks = number of blocks that the server didn't sign off on.

This could be a result of many things, like for example when the blockchain froze last year I went from "0" to whatever the figure is today. On that day every witness missed blocks.

It could also be for example a simple error made when updating/restarting (aka HF).
Not taking the server offline immediately when doing this, a simple human mistake while doing the right thing.

If you do monitor the missed blocks "daily" and you notice that a witness server is missing blocks more frequently than others, then that could suggest that the server is not reliable or maybe a computer in a backyard garden shed or flooded mouldy basement. Just saying that to exaggerate a little, but then again, I have heard some horror stories about what all people use to "mine" crypto!

As for the "active" status.

on Steemian.info, if the witness/user name is in yellow, that means that the server has been offline since recently, which is not necessarily a bad thing, it could be just an update in question. In which case it would be best to send a DM to the person and ask what is up with that.

If the name is in red, then that server has been down for a while.
This is where a witness vote is going to waste.

If that witness becomes active again the name will change colour and I am sure they will notify their followers and friends that they have decided to get their witness campaign going again.

I hope this answer helps.

Cheers

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Yes, this is very helpful. Thank you. :)

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I never know who to vote for witness.. I'm guilty of having a dead vote.. Any suggestion on where to find reliable information on who to vote for?

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You can check out who is posting what with the relative tags: witness, witness-update or witness-category at

https://steemit.com/@witnesspage

and you can see the general info for all witnesses at:

https://www.steemian.info/witnesses

Your vote is your personal choice and what is important is that if at any time in the future you feel that you wish to change your vote, you have absolutely every right to do so and nobody has any right to judge you for it.

Your vote = your choice.

& there is no rush to make any choices either, it is all a thing of what you decide to do with your votes.

Cheers.

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I vote some dead witnesses, but I think they may come back and I have plenty left over after not voting supporters of this debacle in the making.

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& nobody has the right to judge you for your choices.

You as an individual = "the wealth of Steem" and the fact that you believe that you are doing the right thing and keeping track of things is absolutely great.

STEEM ON!

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The whole witness voting scheme is messed up! Why is voting for disabled witnesses even a thing? And no I don't believe my vote counts, these stats do not prove it does. Thanks for tagging me though as when I was unvoting for all witnesses the other day I must of accidentally voted for one (that I had never even heard of.)

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I fully agree that there are things that need to improved, one of them you hit right on the head:

"Why is voting for disabled witnesses even a thing?"

Fully agree.

However, as we can see, until we manage to get consensus on issues that concern our governance and our voting model, the responsibility lays with all of us to do our best so as to ensure that our ecosystem works as best it can with the given "flaws".

As for "your vote counting":

My point here is fairly clear, that all our votes count, even and especially those votes cast for dead witnesses.

Look a the grand total of vote value on dead witnesses, it literally = enough to change the entire governance (top20) here on Steem.

or should I say Top30, as there are 30 votes that each and every one of us can cast.

It really does add up and your vote, as mine, as anyones is a part of it.

But, yes, I tend to agree fully with your points about "fixing things".

These figures confirm that too, so "right on" with that one.

Cheers.

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Cierto! tienes razón, quizás en una ocasión utilice mis votos a testigos pero estos ahora no están activos, y debería actualizarlos. Excelente.

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Thank you for remind me about inactive witness. I have changed it.

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