Why aren’t they running full nodes? Because that would cut into their profits.
Get me in the top-20 and I’ll run one public and one private. OR... I’ll host a Steem festival/convention in Vegas next year, with actual marketing to real companies that might find a use for this blockchain.
In other words - I’ll do what most of these leeches refuse to do or don’t know how to do. I’m just a nice guy like that.
this actually sounds fun, hey @idikuci @take5 @buttcoins can you consider putting this guy who looks like scorpion in mortal kombat on the witness vote list?
Sounds good to me. I love Vegas and I love Steem.
" I’ll host a Steem festival/convention in Vegas next year" Sounds like jerryfest
How dare you!
We won’t be performing auto-fellatio in front of a crowd of paid followers. And there’s a very good chance that I can get some rather important mainstream tech people there...people from a company such as Intel.
So, already way more potential than Jerry or SteemFest - and that’s barely trying.
I think you can use your votes however you want, including on yourself. I also think other people can use their votes however they want, including downvoting the posts you upvote. That’s how the system is designed.
And I think that it’s also OK to point out undesirable or potentially destructive behavior while understanding that everyone can use their stake however they want. That’s what being “social” means - that there may be consequences for our actions, based on the subjective opinions and values of other people in our community and with whom we interact.
It’s a complex and dynamic system.
So, sure...I support the concept of self-voting. It would be absurd to be opposed to it, since the entire platform is based on how much you are invested and based on using that stake to influence behavior/outcomes/rewards in this system.