Special thanks to @dreamiely for this soundbite!
Part of my initiatives as a witness is to support a growing community - @steemph - I organize a weekly AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) for the purpose of sharing, imparting knowledge and educating the community. Every steemian is of course welcome to join us and participate.
 | Yes it's a possibility. @deveerei and I are talking about it as we speak |
 | we, the witnesses are not super in any way... we are normal people like all of us here. nothing special nor of god-like or saint-like characters. we have steem accounts like you do, however we run and maintain servers which are nodes of the STEEM network these are servers that store, process and verify transactions of the STEEM blockchain. Transactions inlcude posts, comments, upvotes STEEM/SBD transfers etc. We also publish price feeds for the internal market value of STEEM vs SBD. These nodes are the backbone of the Steem blockchain (if you may). On top of that, some witnesses (including myself) aim to grow our community and provide value to the STEEM blockchain. These efforts enable us to have a sustainable platform where everyone benefits... |
 | On my opinion it brings a positive utility for the STEEM Blockchain. We can relate this to how ICOs are giving a positive use case (mostly) to Ethereum. |
 | Yes, similar to it. |
  | If you are referring to your posts on the STEEM blockchain, The owner of that post is still the author of that post. |
 | The more votes (in terms of vests) , a witness get, the higher the ranking is the more blocks they are assigned to produce and be rewarded. |
 | Not unless you power down. But I think you are referring to the delegated steem power when your account was created. then in that case yes the gets to 0 eventually. Similar to all delegated steem power, they can be withdraw by whomever delegated it to you. |
 | Unfortunately, there's no way once it has been processed in the block already. |
 | It depends on your intention. If you want to do it for security purposes, you can place your SBD to your savings and you have 3-day waiting period before you can withdraw it. You may also convert it to STEEM Power (through the process of powering up) which is the best option if you want to save it for the future (because of the 13-week power down process) and also your voting weight/value will also increase, the higher your SP means you also earns higher curation rewards. |
 | Good point and this is a wise investment as well. |
 | You can still upvote posts even after payout and you are free to do so as much as you like. There won't be any monetary value but it will have an effect to the author's reputation. |
 | Yes the voters' voting power will also decrease by 2% regardless of the time you casted the vote. |
 | No. there is no monetary return if you RESTEEM a post. |
 | No. there is no monetary return if you RESTEEM a post. But it would be of great help to the author if you resteem their posts so that they would reach a bigger audience (ie. if you have more followers) |
 | Bot accounts are created with a certain purpose. And as usual if there is a good bot there also bad bots exists. This is inevitable for a decentralized system since there is no certain rules/guidelines imposed on these bots. I have no problems with using bots generally but intentions does matter. |
 | I don't use that much facebook (whatever that is) but in terms of trending posts in categories the way steemit ranks the post depends on many factors one of which is the number of upvotes it got and the potential payout of the post. |
 | You are free to use any tags even if it's not trending/popular. I would highly recommend though to use #steemph tag and #philippines if you want your post to be visible to these communities. we aim someday to have those tags be one of the popular tags and gain a bigger audience. |
 | The minimum specs to run a witness server node is: 16GB RAM, 4-core CPU, low latency internet connectivity (1Gb/s connection preferrably), 250GB SSD storage space. |
If you think I deserve your witness vote, cast it here https://steemit.com/~witnesses
