Witness Voting Improvement

bsameep (53) · 7 years ago

Hey @drakos thanks for voicing out the concerns of minor witnesses... it is very difficult to get noticed with the current system...

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r0nd0n (63) · 7 years ago

Wow, you are top of things. We were just discussing this last night, and you've already implemented it for the top 400 witnesses! This is a great tool that will help both witnesses and steem users to navigate their choices with much more certainty.

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sanjeevm (63) · 7 years ago

What makes a witness disabled ?

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago (edited)

If they miss blocks for 24h they get disabled by the system.
They disable it manually it if they don't want to run the server anymore.
They are running a fork lower than HF19.
And finally they can temporarily disable their server when doing maintenance.
In fact, let me add those things to the post.

revo (60) · 7 years ago

Apparently sanjeevm disabled his reading module... ;)

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

I was thinking of these issues last night, I notice a lot of new users vote unvote, vote or equally as often vote and unvote. The UI is confusing to most new users and really does need some work.

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funkylove (54) · 7 years ago

This is a good initiative and the added features will help big time. Kudos to you

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williamgabriel (59) · 7 years ago

As a new member I'm still wrapping my mind around the witness function but immediately saw the problem with the current witness page for which you are proposing solutions. This appears to be a core component of the steem blockchain that needs to evolve. thanks

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alieone (42) · 7 years ago

Thank you. I'm new at steemit and agree the witness page needs to show more than just 50 to give a chance to new guys. Just for that you're getting my vote!

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yehey (63) · 7 years ago

This is really a big improvement to the steemian.info website. Easy to vote other witnesses not listed in the Top 50, excellent improvement.

All steemian not just the witness tool, you will find it a good steem resource, consider it as your knowledgebase for steem. Recommended to bookmark the website.

Best regards,
@Yehey

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ma1neevent (66) · 7 years ago

You have my witness vote @Drakos! Thanks for all you do on Steemit and in @MinnowSupport!

gavinthegreat (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

I agree the system is flawed and needs some work.

You've had my vote a long time now :)

youngjerv (54) · 7 years ago

thanks for sharing this awesome content i have learnt a lot here

kanasite (40) · 7 years ago

I was thinking to setup a witness node as well and try to contribute to the steem blockchain, however I agree with multiple points you made in your post, there are a certain degree of bias or flaw (especially inactive witness). I would suggest or even propose something like a league, where given a time frame, witnesses are "revoted" for the next period rather than staying on top forever. Of course this will also goes into a strong debate on how DPoS should work.

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bigdude (56) · 7 years ago

The truth has few factors that allow voters to visualize what these witnesses do, besides that they belong to the platform and what they are contributing to deserve our vote. @drakos You have my full support, grateful with your contribution to the platform.

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ewuoso (63) · 7 years ago

i noticed some people just vote for top 50 alone. they think we have just 50

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

Indeed, that's why the Steemit page can be misleading because it doesn't tell the users who are the other witnesses.

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abasinkanga (61) · 7 years ago

Wow! Am impressed... You bring a whole different game to this witness voting business... Now its so interesting to get into it....

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rival (67) · 7 years ago

great @drakos i totally agree with you.. the current page is to simple.. even long diabled witnesses are in the top 50 list.. this should be out asap..

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t-belema (39) · 7 years ago

did vote and maybe unvote you several times before cause i could not tell if the vote went through or not. but with this new developement hopefully that confusion is settled for good.

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cryptwo (47) · 7 years ago

I really think the list should atleast be extended to the top 100 but automatically remove the non active users from the list until they become active and only shows the current top 100 active servers.

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r0nd0n (63) · 7 years ago

How would you unvote non active witnesses if they disappeared from the list?

netuoso (70) · 7 years ago

You would simply have an "inactive witness" area and populate that with the inactive witnesses, below the active list. Obviously they cannot be removed from the witness list on the blockchain, but what I mean can be simply handled via frontend.

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

They can't disappear from the list. They're permanently registered on the blockchain, active or not.

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cryptwo (47) · 7 years ago

Didn't actually consider that as much for people that go completely offline, but for people that could just have a hiccup that puts them down for a couple of days shouldn't matter, but i think most people don't unvote nearly as much as upvoting. I more so think that specific list should focus more so to see who is currently active and than using other sources such ashttps://steemian.info/witnesses to see the more detailed statistics to see who should maybe not have your votes anymore.

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cryptwo (47) · 7 years ago

i myself barely go to Steemit's own witness list and just go to https://steemian.info/witnesses as its what i much prefer to use and think Steemit's list should be similar

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

There's a red button at the top left to Hide Disabled witnesses.

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clumsysilverdad (64) · 7 years ago

Great points, yes the current system does leave a lot to be desired... But on the other hand it is transparent and fairly well noticed. I guess it is the classic question of democracy; education, information, and access.

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steembusiness (69) · 7 years ago (edited)

A list of the 400 Top witnesses is definitely worth a lot as the top 50 on steemit just isn't good enough...

Regardless of that amazing tool, you probably got us all to vote for you with that little piggy already 😍

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josephsavage (65) · 7 years ago

What does the bias % column mean?

And it's nice to see what witnesses are setting the APR at. I'm a bit surprised to see some of the results, with SBD price so high.

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

The bias controls how much SBD or STEEM is 'printed'. A positive bias shifts the reward pool towards SBD issuance, while a negative bias favors STEEM. Because of the high SBD price, increasing the SBD supply would, in theory, reduce its price.

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josephsavage (65) · 7 years ago

This is very helpful. Thank you!

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buildawhale (74) · 7 years ago

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upme (49) · 7 years ago

You got a 3.03% upvote from @upme requested by: @drakos.
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