The infrastructure
The week has been both productive and useful.
My witness has made it to the 113 position (93 if we see it with @drakos tool for inactive witnesses),
The node made its first block on the 20th and another one yesterday
The server runs smoothly and barely notices steemd is there.
So no missed blocks
The human
We see that the #castellano tag is flourishing and being adopted, it was a keen surprise to see the @dropahead team is curating that tag and we want to thank them for the support to authors using it.
With the help of @juliococo in venezuela little by little we are encouraging the adoption of steemit to perform our citizen meetings and popular assemblies.
DSD Venezuela has been busy at work for communities.
And our goal is to achieve sustainability trought steemit.
http://steemit.com/@reveur/actividad-petare-dsd-social-dsdpetare
- Also have been looking on @sircork 's #youarehope project as #venezuela is one of his areas of reach and therefore we would like to be of help.
There seems to be a confusion as whether i am running a curation project.
I have setup tools for #venezuela authors to call a curation team and empower them with the SP i have influence or control, i had authorized 2 accounts for my trail to follow their vote, but they went AWOL.
This ended up in a comments flame war in one of my posts and thus i feel the need to mention it here.
So corrective measures for properly using the SP where taken
Since no one was using the key-phrase to summon the trail i realized it was the wrong approach and decided to put it on hold.
From now on we simply made the trail follow @provenezuela Vote, their white paper is in agreement with my views of how we can build a better world and while no one is curating for me since i spend so much time in the machines room i think my SP is better used there.
The technical
The two bots for informing about the proper use of tags are ready to go, since yesterday the one for @minnowbooster is running and has had an overall good reception.
The one for the #steemit Tag we performed a trial run, but apparently the message is not friendly enough we had many replies from users feeling aggressed when this was not the intention. So we put it on hold and we are rethinking the message.
I get the feeling people is weary of bots and have come to dislike them as so far they have been used either for voting, advertising or correction.
I believe that BOTs should be helpful and provide the heavy lifting and remove the repetitive tasks, and in general can be used for good, it is up to the developers to decide their behavior.
- The summoning BOT which was about to be thrown in a drawer might have found a new home helping a dear friend in his project... If this happens he will let you know.
- Also We are redesigning the trail so you dont need to provide your PPK anymore and use steemconnect instead to autorize your participation.
This removes the headache of having to protect the server to protect the users Posting keys and gives flexibility to users to join or retire from the trail. I want to thank @surpassinggoogle for giving me the idea and @neander-squirrel for helping me with the code.
These are the witnesses I support outside the TOP 50
Voting for Witnesses is important
We work to build and maintain the platform, each one of us has its small or big proyects to make Steemit better for you.
You can choose up to 30 witnesses that represent you views and interests. It doesn't produce curation rewards, but helps them remain motivated to spend time building this place.
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Very nice report. Thanks for all your efforts.
As for the notice for the steemit tag, perhaps you should start off by saying, "This is NOT a warning nor disciplinary action. It is simply a one-time notification to help clarify what the steemit tag is used for in case you may not know (this is an attempt to correct the lack of information only)."
Not a bad idea i'll run it by the boss ( @patrice) and see what she thinks.
Yes she launched her server almost at the same time as i did she's doing very well, she does a great job and she deserves it !
Thanks to you for your support and our discussions, i see steemit as the place were i come to learn and you have been part of it!
I promise i'll find time to keep exchanging ideas!
I find this a wonderful place to learn. I get my news here and everything! Now I just need to learn how to read faster and write faster and think faster... there is just so much material here, I can't keep up with it.
We are glad to support #castellano posts! Congrats for your witness! Best wishes :D
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