This is a four part discussion.
- Commentary about
being out of the top 20 for half a day
- Why you should vote for
- SteemPeak.com Tools to help you vote and tools for witnesses
- Why you should vote for
as well
1: Why and 
loosing the "Pumpkin" vote is great
- We have not had many non pumpkin vote witnesses in the top 20 and now we have 2 more so we are heading in the right direction
- Aggroed stated "It's pretty amazing to be in the consensus witness list without those two votes." Meaning pumpkin and blocktrades.
- Meaning he's showed it's possible which is way more important for steem than for
- There was a ton more publicity to the witness voting system these last couple of days... that's awesome.
- Aggroed also said "Apparently, a witness dropping from 1 to 21 is newsworthy enough re:witnesses to get people to revisit their lists."
This is awesome people should revisit their list more often!
I am an optimist and so I see the silver lining in a lot of things... But in my mind what 
I think they looked at the numbers a few weeks ago and said top witness
If this pattern holds true I think you can expect 
And i submit this will be awesome. If my prediction is true I think freedom will put more people just outside the door of top20 in a position to campaign and make things interesting and make people more motivated feeling like they have a shot if they do enough awesome things. This will get more people voting and more people voting decentralizes the vote of
2: Vote for @Aggroed
I speak for myself ...
My own personal accounts vote for
- There is no doubt
has been great for the blockchain
- Keychain is an amazing tool that I love using on steemmonsters, peakmonsters and steempeak
- PAL discord is a happening place and for me the shows from MSP-waves are particularly awesome
- I'm still learning about steem-engine but seems very promising and I feel good knowing
is helping them a bit because I trust
When I met
PHILOSOPHY OF STEEMMONSTERS MAKES ME HAPPY
I love that they created a game and didn't try to control the whole experience... for example they let
I also love that they not only will allow but are actively hoping people create other games using their card assets. No one has really taken them up on it but this is a huge aspect of why I personally like SteemMonsters. I'd love to create a live drafting version of the game and I don't think it would be too hard ... hopefully that happens soon. I've talked to one programmer about it who seemed interested.
I think that core understanding that keeping things open and decentralized are gonna be best for steem ... and as a witness I want someone who has the best interests of steem at heart.
So vote for him... that's my opinion.
NO WITNESS IS PERFECT
No witness is gonna be perfect, I don't agree with everything each of them do. I wish there were more witnesses (aka single solitary soul) that were good at marketing and PR outside of steem. But there really isn't anyone with substantial results (aka actual internet impressive numbers)
But that being said
3: STEEMPEAK TOOLS
So let's take a moment to visit some of the cool tools on https://steempeak.com
Back in November
WITNESS LIST
I may be biased but the best looking witness list that has the easist voting system is https://steempeak.com/witnesses
Specially if you have KEYCHAIN (something
EACH WITNESS HAS THIS BUTTON
So promoting voting for
4: Why Vote SteemPeak as Witness
I also vote for
https://steempeak.com/@steempeak <- Go here to vote.
BACKGROUND
After we created a witness server we then created tools on steempeak.com for witnesses and then announced we had a witness server. We aren't great at campaigning or remembering to ask people to vote... but we've found our way up the list. Actually thanks to
STEEMPEAK PHILOSOPHY
When we created the site we wanted to make:
- The most intuitive steem interface
(something our friends could understand right away instead of having a super confusing first couple months on steem) - Have all the tools we had been using or wanted to use in ONE PLACE.
(At the time we were all using like 5-6 sites just to do the things we wanted to do on steem)
I think we've done a great job but are not even done with that goal yet. There are more and more things we want to make this site easier not just for you but for your friends and family and plenty more tools we're working on.
PERSONAL GOAL
Also it's been a big push of my own to see that SteemPeak is distinct philosophically from other social media in that it doesn't try to strong-hand control you or your experience. I would love our motto to be "Taking control back in your social media experience" or something like that. Giving the consumer a bit more sense of control in their life. I think in the hearts of millions of people they're getting tired of being manipulated and told what they want to see and how to see it. I know for a fact creators are not happy companies are inserting themselves way more into the conversation between them and their fans. Youtube, instagram, FB all change algorithms as soon as creators figure out a great system of connecting with their fans. Now you have to "ring the bell" on youtube if you actually want to know when your favorite creator did something. That's why companies like patreon wer created because then you could have a more direct connection with fans. (Even patreon is screwing around with that these days)
On many sites you don't even have a choice to see the content of the people you follow in chronological order. Your experience is very carefully crafted and not just your experience but your attention is being put where it serves FB and Youtube the best. And while it's great they work hard to understand you and your inclinations the point is they greatly limit the control on your end. In this "we know best" sort of attitude.
Steempeak will still work to figure out what is great as a default experience but still give you Control of your experience. At least that's what I'm fighting for. What do you think about that?
MY 10 FAVORITE STEEMPEAK TOOLS
- ACCOUNT SWITCHING is a beautiful beautiful thing for someone who posts on
and
- LOGIN OPTIONS
Keychain and Steemconnect are both on there
Having both is important ... steemconnect is still important for me on mobile but on desktop Keychain is 100% how i roll - IMAGE SLIDER
I couldn't imagine browsing steem without the slider... specially photography posts. - OPTIONAL BENEFICIARIES
I use them on every single post I do... for example - EASY MONEY SENDING
I like going right to an account and sending steem/sbd with a click of a button and no more worrying that i'm sending it to the wrong person. - EASY DELEGATION
But even better is being able to change delegations just as easy. - NO TRENDING
We have erased it from our vocabulary even though it's still technically possible to see steemit's idea of what trending is. And we do have an actual list of trending topics based on views so that's cool. But soon we'll go even further away from the broken trending by providing better options for exploring steem. - COMMUNITIES
Not something presently finished but we're to the point of testing by next week is the guess. - DRAFTS
It would destroy my soul to use a site that didn't have drafts - TEMPLATES
Super important on a project likewhich I'm looking forward to getting rolling again after I work on a project to get photographers here.
THE FUTURE IN OUR HANDS
Another personal goal... which I suppose should be the goal of every successful business. I don't want https://steempeak.com to be dependent on any one outside group for it's success. I don't want our future connected to Steemit Inc or the things
SteemPeak's future is bright not because of where we are today but how we're positioning ourselves for tomorrow. I want to make sure SteemPeak can be a raging success even if no one presently using steemit ever switches to steempeak. (Old habits die hard) I want to create the place millions use and I want to create a place creators thrive... meaning we create a place for creators to have viewers.
And I'd like to think I'd continue to be the person to see problems and not wait for someone else to fix it but do it ourselves if we can ... or at least put it into the schedule to get around to it as soon as possible. haha
More Programmers
With that said we're really dependent on
STEEMFEST PICTURES?
Yep it's been a crazy couple of months. I have not even been able to go through the steemfest pictures yet... But i'm catching up and obviously i just posted 3. haha