I hope someone can help me. Just bought some lisk and moved it over to my wallet.
I've cast my votes over to 5 delegates. However the forging status, is that because I'm no delegate?
http://imgur.com/a/GVaGkbasically, to enable forging you need:
1) install a lisk node on a linux machine;
2) login into the local node lisk web ui (or even on
https://login.lisk.io), register a delegate name (cost 25 Lisk; go to "forging", "delegate registration");
3) login into the lisk web ui of your local lisk node (
http://localhost:8000) , enable the forging by the web ui (forging --> forging ON) (or by api call
https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk-wiki/wiki/Lisk-API-Reference, or by editing config.json file
https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk-wiki/wiki/Configure-Lisk#2--forging);4) once forging is enabled, your delegate name has to be voted by the lisk community, considering that it will start to actively forge only when it will reach at least the 101 position, who now requires about 10,2M of voting weight;
5) last but not least, you have to stay in touch with the whole lisk community and with Lisk HQ to keep costantly your forging node updated.
More info about configuring a lisk node are at
https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk-wiki/wiki/Binary-Install and at
https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk-wiki/wiki/Configure-LiskIt is strongly suggested for an aspirant active forger, to join the lisk chat at
http://lisk.chat, where you can chat with some people of the Lisk HQ team and the rest of the active forging community, and to make a delegate proposal on
https://forum.lisk.io/viewforum.php?f=48&sid=f49d70a241cf8ea1453e13142883a5beAlso I've voted to 5 larger delegates. On their delegate page there is no information as to when the payout is? Can someone point me to information when this delegates pay:
thepool
liskpool_com_01
liskpool.top
shinekami
robinhood
take a look at
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18502957 where you can find too more info about a larger number of delegates who are actually sharing part of their forged lisk. Besides, it is a good idea, to vote too for some delegates who have a good productivity and that make a lot of efforts to help the lisk ecosystem to grow. For example,
phoenix1969 is very active in this chat since the ico times, having spent a lot of his resources for the growth of lisk. The same some others delegate like
cc001,
gr33ndrag0n,
phinx,
redsn0w,
gregorst and others... Search for them in this forum thread or on lisk forum
Thank you so much for your help. Will take some time to read me in and check the chat.
Always great if a community has members like yourself.
Edit; Just a question though.
Does it matter, reward wise, if I vote for only 5 pools, or 30 pools for that matter.
). 
They are good guys and your direct competitors. They have very interesting proposals for liskers. Lazy GDT asses go to work for Lisk if they want to stay in the 101. 