Some witnesses have not made a single post about Hive who are still in the top 50. Heck, there are even top 20 witnesses who have not made a post about Hive this year on their witness accounts. Would you believe there is even someone who has not made a post since 2017 that runs a Hive witness? Kind of hard to know what these people have been up to at a glance unless you want to dig through meetings, Gitlab, Discords, or contact them directly if you even can.
You would think with Hive being the social blockchain that it is there would not be a single witness who has not at least made a post about Hive that is currently running a Hive witness. HF25 is around the corner. It’s not like there has not been stuff for them to post about. So those voting for them have a deeper understanding if that witness is representing their interest.
I do understand there is a lot of inactive voters. This is why perhaps witnesses that are still around as we can see by them updating and running their witness should not appear so inactive at face value. Hardfork 25 a year after it lands is going to remove inactive voters. That is going to have some kind of profound impact on the ecosystem.
Going through all your witness votes once in while can be quite a time-consuming task to undertake. I’ve done it a couple of times now and I have even removed witnesses in the past who I want to support but I just don’t know them well enough to make up for the lack of actual posts on their witness account.
You might also notice I don’t vote on the maximum amount of witnesses you can. I simply just don’t have the time to keep track of that many witnesses as irregularly as I do. Even more so when I remove one I take a while to replace them if I ever do. No, I’m not looking for any suggestions either.
Last night I contacted a couple of witnesses. Some are ones I support that have not made a witness post in quite some time asking if they have any plans to. Others I’d like to support but they don’t even put out yearly witness reports.
Final Thoughts
I like to use the excess that a hardfork is coming up to check in on my witness and proposal votes. It can sometimes be easy to forget about doing so as life gets in the way. Not to mention it’s like bookkeeping or housecleaning and most don’t find that sort of activity fun. Dust off those cobwebs and make sure you are voting for what you want to see supported. Don’t make the ecosystem wait till 2022 for dead votes to be removed.
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Excellent advice. I actually did a sweep through of my Witness votes a month or so ago, and made some changes that felt more in line with what I see being contributed to the community. Thanks for the reminder. :)
Awesome, more need to do so from time to time.
It would be nice if we had a website where only witnesses post, maybe like a linkedin type of interface, but only HIVE witnesses can post on it...
I think there is a tribe or a place they post updates into.
It's going to shake things up some, looking forward to HF25.
We can only hope. Shame its going take another full year to see it happen.
I hope you don't consider those who run other very active accounts as "not posted in forever" :p I don't particularly feel like posting on the witness account often as I feel actions speak louder than words.
OCD was not including in that group as it clearly shows OCD-Witness by Acidyo.
Posting is an action though. Some have not taken that action for years. . .
Well, the good thing about these price swings is that many have the chance to buy up a lot of stake now and after a month of powering up switch it up a bit in the witness section. ^^
Over time hopefully distribution of stake goes to the more active ones who'll care more about who else is active in witnessing along with witness vote decay coming up it surely will get a lot more fair up there!
Vote decay might even get more interested in setting up their own witness one day with there being an actual chance to not be stuck at the bottom with the inactive and dead.
You are not on that category, those who always love to check up on witness and see their performance knows witness who don't like making post but they are always active to ensure that the hive ecosystem is running.
It is glad to see that you are doing your best here and if there is any avenue to add more vote to OCD @acidyo , I will do so.
Finally, I am still one of those who don't check up on witness vote, I am guilty of this but change is the only constant thing.
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Yep i did this about a year back. A year from now we need to vote for the right witnesses that believe in decentralization and censorship resistance.