Hey man,

wow this is a cool way to look at witnesses. Super happy to see steem-bounty be in the top 10! BTW this witness is run by "@knircky" and "@famunger"

I really like the sound of this challenge @steemcommunity. It seems like a great way to get to know some witnesses better. It's a shame it's not required of all witnesses but then I suppose we wouldn't be decentralised.

Hopefully it will help us make more informed decisions about witnesses. Even one who doesn't respond after being tagged will tell us something!

It is good to dig up these stats! I still have 20 witness spots to fill and this will make it easier!
Thx

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I think it's a great starting point, since you've included all the caveats which are just impossible to measure! 

You could maybe divide upvotes to others by SP as this is at least partly a function of how rich someone is? Or compensate for this is someway?

As long as you're clear about the limitations which you are I think it's useful. 

I didn't realise you (or @PaulaG) were witnesses, I'll give you both a vote. 

While Im here - what's yr op. on the @steembasicincome project? Im looking into it thinking its great!

Informative...

I like your hard work about witnesses.I think you should be on top because what i am seeing is you have given replies to others comments which very few people does :)

I think it's very useful, and the work you're doing has helped me decide some of my witness votes (several of which are still unclaimed, ahem).
The only thing I might add is data from alternate accounts, but that could really complicate the process.

Well. I don't consider other channels like discord important. Neither other channels like Facebook or YouTube. I look up on it like a diversion for those who get paid to get THIS channel working. I find their fascination for (centralized) to be a reason to unvote.

Extremely detailed post, you have covered all aspect of witnesses. Thanks

Thank you @abh12345 for this useful tool, I consider it like a compass for better understanding who to follow. It's been nice to know you too, in this period of my short steemian life I'm trying to orientate and explore the great communities and people here. I wish you can keep publishing this list as engagement is for me the engine and key of the steem echosystem. Moreover, minnows will be able to understand how they can make their steemit experience the best by creating meaningful relations with those that eventually may recognise their intrinsic value and foster them ✌️

This is an interesting one @abh12345. At first look I thought this was going to be very helpful but then when I looked more closely I found it not to as helpful as I thought. Sorry! 😢

I think the penalties for self voting skew the numbers too much such that it becomes a disadvantage for a witness to be posting. If some of the witnesses at the bottom of the table stopped posting and therefore self voting they would do much better.

That doesn't seem quite right to me.

Also. the fact that, what is essentially a bot, Steemitboard, is at the top of the table with no posts and primarily mostly automated comments, suggests to me that the data needs to be analysed in a different way.

I'm not sure how to change the weights but it would be good if there was some way to get an added score for posting perhaps so that the self voting doesn't have such a huge impact.

But, it sort of depends on the motivation of those that post I suppose. Do they post because they want to contribute that way, or so they can self vote, or to get publicity for their witness or maybe all of the above.

I don't know. I'm going round in circles now. Time to move on! 😁

I really like the data. And would be nice to see it more often. But that's mainly because I like numbers.

I wonder if and in what way this list could be used? It basically shows that most witnesses are not really engaging.

And some of them just get very high in the list because they brilliantly botified their account. Or was it really his good karma that helped him almost to defeat you in this table? 😋

>Would you, as a non-witness or a witness, like to see this list each week?

Yes.

>What do you think of the data you see?

It's a good indicator of the engagement with the community, but as you said it doesn't capture the rest of the work the witnesses are doing.

>Is engagement here on the blockchain important to you?

Absolutely, but I'm ready to give some witnesses a pass. There's so much to do and the day isn't getting any longer.

>Could I make this post/list more useful?

Yes, you could. As a newbie, I'm literally stumbling on who's who here. The improvement I'm suggesting is featuring a short bio of the witness deserving to be featured. What he/she does,... Something like ***The Witness of the Week***. It's really hard to keep track on who's who and who's doing what. 

A weekly update would be a great place to learn more about the steemit community.

*ps- voted for yours and @paulag's witness. Cheers!*

>Would you, as a non-witness or a witness, like to see this list each week?

Yes!

>Could I make this post/list more useful?

Please do it for top 150 witnesses. I'm at 139 position and I would like to see data for me too :)

Brilliant post! As a follower of your weekly Curation & Engagement Leagues post, I am enthused to see this post. 

Understandably, not all the witnesses are social butterflies (*love that you added all the caveats!*) Many developers are passionate about coding and not chatting, so I wouldn't ding them simply for not being on the top of this list. However, your list gives us non-witnesses a good perspective on the witnesses' level of activity here on the platform. If they are not actively developing or engaging within the community, *what are they doing?* Why should we support a witness simply because the person has longevity on this platform or supporters with a gazillion SP? 

As always, appreciate you taking the time to compile this list. I would love this compilation as an ongoing post of yours. Have a great day Asher!

P.S. I'm not surprised to see the two powerhouse of @steemcommunity in the top rankings of engagement!

Edited: I see a particularly witness on the list that have many posts, but did not have many self-votes. Since some of these witnesses own bidbots, I wonder if it would be helpful to know if any of them used their own services to say..boost their page to trending in the payout earnings of $1,000+? I know @doomsdaychassis would love this particular stats.

Are you seriously trying to sell people that a witness should spend his time *engaging* with the communtiy instead of working on Steem related dev-projects?

If you really believe that - then EOS will have the easiest time crushing Steem, because communities will be built through the system but if the system sucks - nothing matters.

Or do you think that Reddit hired professional curators?