I would like to introduce my candidature for an ACTIVE Delegate
Let me say couple of words about myself to make a better understanding of how I could help Lisk to become great.
I'v been here since 2013 and remember the times when Bitcoin was worth like 30$. I'v been doing a lots of daytrading since then, keeping an eye what is happening in the community, also participated in ethereum ICO. Now I have a big feeling that Lisk may even overcome ETH pretty quick if well developed thanks its simplicity.
Firstly I want to agree with anyone who thinks that sharing their forging income with people who voted for you is not the way to go. I'm pretty sure that buying the votes to stay in top 101 in many cases gonna cause laziness in delegates. Although they may keep the node secured, updated and active most of the time, in my opinion that's only a part of the job what ACTIVE Delegate should do..
I would see delegates more like an Ambassadors who gonna actively promote Lisk among JS developers and later even among the potential users of dapps.
Here is what I'm going to do as an ACTIVE delagete:
Build an informational Lisk website in Polish (I'm from Poland) where I will be posting all important updates, manuals, info about new dapps ect.
Get in touch with polish JS dev community, by posting on coding boards, constantly informing tech/pc sites about hot news from lisk.
Run facebook, twiitter and adwords campaigns to increase Lisk awareness and attract more people to involve into the project.
The time will show what else I can do.. At the moment I m not a coder, can't develop dapps by myself but I'm definitely skilled marketer. Lisk probably need both of them as Delegates.
And finally my intention is to spend 40-50% of my forging reward on the promotion i mentioned above, including advertising campaigns, contests and bounties for devs , running a website ect. I believe that every penny spend on smart campaign will pay off. When Lisk will be mainstream I would be happy even with 20%