Have you ever, during some seemingly satisfactory moments of your life, hoped, a little bit insatiably, that if the world could just be a bit more perfect?
Just a little bit more, really.
Yeah, that's what came to my mind when I came across a post, an old enough post, this morning. The post is here.
Not again! You might want to say so if you happened to see some posts in Chinese for the past two days advocating for voting certain witness. I will get to that shortly. But I am not gonna do the same thing. At least not directly.
Hear me out.
If there is anyone, other than @dantheman or @ned, anyone that has had the biggest influence on my Steem journey so far, it has to be Abit. No doubt. And this probably applies to 99% users, old or new, hanging out in the cn community. Hence, naturally, when we gradually learned to know what witnesses do and that we can vote, we vote for the guy. If we can vote all our 30 votes on him, we probably will do so too. But of course you are not allowed. Even when I learn a bit and a bit more about witnessing, I feel a bit and a bit more confident with my vote. Abit isn't a lousy witness at all by all measurements and thank God we don't have to face the decision of voting for a better witness or voting for a whale who supports you. The choice couldn't be easier for me, at least in the current setting when I am only allowed one vote for each witness. I probably will not vote all 30 votes on Abit if I am allowed. Probably just 20, no, 19 votes.
"Do you understand the technical details of witnessing?" You might want to ask. I don't.
I write, I blog but I don't know technology.
I use more sensibility than sense here. I heard what others said about him about his ability as a developer. I felt how he might be like as a bloke in real life from my side-watching in cn wechat (an instant messaging App) group. I have never spoken in private to him except on Steemit or on wechat group publicly (my fault, man! I should do so really as I owe you a big thank you!). According to my sensibility, he is definitely a let-me-code-or-I-might-be-bored-to-death type of guy (you call that a geek? oh, well...). A person with such traits? Sound familiar? No good for marketing this platform, no good for promoting Steem, no good for bringing in fat investors... But he's the BEST witness you can ever hope for! That's just my hunch though.
Oh, sorry! This post isn't about voting for Abit. At least not directly. So, what is it for?
Thanks for reading so far. I will get to the point in a bit...
Okay! Back to when I saw the post. No, it's not the whole content that triggers me to write this post. Shown below.
This is abit, an experienced witness. Will you vote for me?
Seriously, some might even downvote this with such a short and idiotic expression! :P
Neither is it for the much longer comment made by the self-upvoting author after the downvoting Creator hinted for a bit more introduction.
"What then? What the Fxck have you being sentimental about this post!? There is barely anything else! Don't tell me it's about those recent clueless and naive Chinese remarks or it's about the $221.43 payout or ... what!? Gimme a break. What the hell is it!?"
Sorry my dear readers! My writing instructor taught me to write articles like this. Blame her. I don't mean to make you wait. And here it is.
It's the post age shown. Yeah... it says
"last year"
"last year"?
"last year"!!
Wow! this is,... for the first time in my Steemstory, which is a little bit longer than one year and counting , that I see such a description of post age. Usually, it would be at most a couple of months old if I happened to check older posts. Most of the time I don't bother checking posts older than 7 days because they are simply worthless.
I felt some moisture in my eyes when I saw these two magical words "last year". That's probably the most powerful two words that I've ever come across on this platform (dan, the, man... three!).
Guys! We have made it this far!!
A whole year of Steem has passed!!
Awesome job everyone for sticking around here. Those who left and returned for money please get lost... Ha ha no, I am just kidding! But seriously don't you celebrate with me!
Yeah, yeah I know that many including Ned post about Steemit Anniversary or Happy Steem Birthday and so on a while ago already... Sure, sure.
But the blockchain never speaks to me like this before. "last year"... last year!!
"Errr... excuse me, Steem. When was this post written?" I ask politely.
"last year" Steem says, without emotions.
See!? Don't you want to cry, want to shout and want to curse too!?
What a freaking year!
Congratulations to all Steemians! So now you know why I feel that today is such a lovely day in my life and why I hope, with a little bit of insatiation, that if the world could just be a bit more perfect. I know I am being greedy. I know I am asking you for a little bit more of favor if you share some joys from my "last year" experience.
So, if that's alright with you. Consider voting Abit for Steem Witness and make my day. A day when I first met "last year". Here is how.
Abit just dropped out of Top 20 lately and I don't have any clue of why. Maybe there are Whale politics. Maybe this is due to the Experiment he led a while ago. Maybe just because people happened to vote for those in front of him more. I don't know and I won't try to figure it out. I am not here to tell you that with such voting it will do good to the community. Only good to me. Thus a favor. And I am not returning it because there are too many of you. Hey! I just saw two words ok?
Thanks for reading guys! :)
Remember, this post is mainly about witnessing "last year". Don't need to vote whoever witness if you don't find this post creating value for this platform. You are mean. Do you know that? But I am only joking. lol.
I hope the reader, including Abit, can understand all the humor in this article except the paragraph that I asked someone to piss off. I tried. Please don't consider flagging me... @@
Sincere congratulation to all of you for a wonderful bumpy last year together and hope for the best in the coming one!
This is a 100% SP post so I can get a little more power to make it happen sooner. Also, please note that if my expectation still holds, Abit will upvote this post. But this may not be regarded as voting the post for possible self benefit as Abit's upvotes are being managed by a curation team. Most of the time, as I know, he doesn't know who he has voted. He might read this post though, but probably long time after he voted. lol...