Witness Update 5th Feb 2018

The Bad

This week my price feed stopped updating. I was advised to install Hive account@furion's conductor but somewhere along the line I broke my witness and I missed a block. Luckily I had GINAbot inform me so I took my witness offline while I investigated. I made a few changes, put it back online and waited for my next block, which was witnessed fine. My pricefeed again was working. Great - I thought. Alas, I missed my next block.

I consulted Hive account@ausbitbank who noticed a few discrepancies which I then fixed. A little later Hive account@drakos had a look for me and discovered I had a swap file going on, which was not needed as my server is on HDD and not SSD. A few changes, a fix to my wallet and my witness was back online and functioning properly. Thanks Hive account@ausbitbank and Hive account@drakos for your help. This is very much a learning process for me and each stumbling block is an opportunity to gain further knowledge.

The Change

Due to the drop in price of Steem I have adjusted my reg. fee from 0.100 Steem to 0.200 Steem. I also set an APR of 0.01%.

The Good

Hive account@jrswab and I have been swapping rank positions between 103 and 104 this week. Yesterday however Hive account@jerrybanfield did me a huge courtesy of approving my witness, catapulting me to rank 87 - effective rank 75. This means that rather than witnessing a block around every 10 hours, I now get one around every 5. I understand that he will swap his vote to another witness in future so appreciate this opportunity to be in the top 100 witnesses. Knowing this, I still appreciate each and every witness vote I receive and hope to continue receiving support, keeping me in the top 100.

Why You Should Approve My Witness

As I stated in my witness announcement I am more of a social witness, rather than a technical one. I continue to support fellow Steemians in the following ways:

I run the #ians initiative - Introduce A New Steemian - whereby I share with my followers `#introduceyourself' posts from freshly arrived Steemians, pledging the SBD earned from my posts to them. I have encouraged many others to take part and do a weekly roundup of their efforts.
I am a moderator at PALnet - the Discord server for the Hive account@minnowsupport project, assisting minnows where I can.
I am a community leader in a 750 strong writer's group called The Writer's Block. Our mission is to edit, critique and polish works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, technical and song writing before it's committed to the blockchain. We are in partnership with another writer's group with some 7000 members not on Steem. We are introducing them to the platform, teaching them the ins and outs with the hope that we bring more writing talent on board.
I am a curator for @OCD, searching out great posts with a small dollar value to share, increasing visibility and adding more value to them.
@Muxxybot is my own curation account. I have a team of 20 curators who seek out worthy minnow posts to curate. Featured posts receive a 100% upvote from @Muxxybot as well as greater visibility. For every featured nomination the curators receive an equal share of the SBD earned from the Muxxybot posts.
On a personal level, I do not self vote posts or comments - I would rather use my voting power to upvote others. I have great faith in the platform and Steem in general. If there is any way I can help others on Steem I always do my best to do so.

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