Steemit has, weirdly, close parallels to another project which has had my participation for some time now. Instead of the social media and crypto payment for content concept, we went with the wikipedia model. The reason for mentioning it is that instead of adding much content to the wiki, my input ended up in participation in programming bounty projects (support of Open Source being the main mandate of the project) and as the HR Admin.
In the same way my heart tells me not to depend on more and more life stories to raise my reputation in this fish tank. You will no doubt have to read through more of that; however it need not be the main reason for my advancement in this system. Being a semi-retired programmer it seems natural that some software contribution be considered.
After an incident the husband of a friend of mine had with a greedy whale on Steemit, an idea began to form in the back of my mind where a difference could perhaps be made through the use of software.
A Witness mentioned in one of their posts that only about 4% of Steemit users participate in the Witness voting. With such pathetic turn out there seems a natural need to bring awareness not only of the fact that voting can help shape the direction of Steemit, but to also present some ideas for users' feedback of changes to the system. My thought is that this could be done via a bot. To create a sort of Steemit Political Party. Ideas, or platforms, could be formed among groups of users who folllow the bot and then lobbying of Witnesses to bring such changes into reality through their voting system. Those that are for the ideas presented would have our user base encouraged to support them and those that do not support the ideas... well you get the gest of it.
With only 4% participation any block of voters would have a lot of say.
So it's off to study up on bots. Feel free to steal the idea. The more decentralized Steemit's political system the better.
Any feedback on the idea is most welcome. My home server should be able to handle it with its eyes closed.
