What is #ivoted ?
#ivoted aims to act as a democracy incentive. The goal is to encourage people to vote for witnesses, rewarding them with upvotes from the account @ivoted.
The system is simple :
People post with the tag #ivoted either with a general post “#ivoted for witnesses ! Long live Steemit !” or a more specific one “#ivoted for @witness1 because…”,
Doing that, they’re subscribing to the @ivoted bot, which then upvote them weekly (or daily, depending on SP delegated).
A system will be put in place for proxy voting (maybe with a bonus for the proxy or something like that).
Goals of the program
The main objective is to promote democracy on Steemit and sensitize users about the power they have by voting for witnesses.
With more people voting and interested in witnesses, it could generate a positive dynamic around witnesses, improve their visibility, getting people to know their programs, their visions.
The problems
As discussed with @abh12345 and explained in his post, accounts with a lot of SP that aren’t voting won’t do it even with this kind of initiative.
The targeted people here are minnows (5000 SP or less) but if all of them voted for only one witness, it would only make him arrive at rank 43. So the maximum result of such a program would, at best, be negligible.
Our Call to Witnesses
The situation in not irreversible. By attracting people to vote, to invest themselves in the core of Steemit, some light will be shed on witnesses and that can only be beneficial for all of Steemit.
What do you think of such an initiative ?
Would you support it or not ?