The detail of select producer and how to persuade other to vote for you?

Question

I'm curious about the documentation referring to block producers. However none of the documentation concretely describes how to vote or how to become a block producer. It may be explained in the code, but I find that really hard to understand.

Answer 1

From the docs, to register yourself you can use $ cleos system regproducer:

$ cleos system regproducer

Positional Arguments

account TEXT - The account to register as a producer
producer_key TEXT - The producer's public key
url TEXT - URL where info about producer can be found
location UINT - Relative location for purpose of nearest neighbor scheduling

 $ cleos system regproducer accountname1 EOS1234534... http://producer.site Antarctica

Similarly, to vote producers, the docs mention $ cleos system voteproducer

$ cleos system voteproducer prods someproducr1 someproducr2 someproducr3 someproducr4

There's no on-chain mechanism to persuade others to vote for you as far as I know*, so promotion needs to be done off-chain.

* I guess you could airdrop and send custom memos to encourage recipients to vote for you or something