Last week I launched my own hive witness node to support the network. The witness is now up and running nicely and signing blocks regularly. In the process of setting up and managing the node I got more interested in witness voting and witness voting behaviour of Hive users. In the end, when running a witness, one needs to get some votes.
Witness Votes and Witness Ranking TL;DR
As you know every user can cast their vote for a total of 30 witnesses they would like to support. Your votes are weighted by the amount of hive you have powered up and do not cost you anything. The witnesses in the network are ordered by the sum of all the weighted votes they receive. E.g., a witness receiving 10 votes of 10HP accounts will get listed lower on the witness ranking than a witness receiving just one vote by an account staking 10K HP. The witness ranking determines how often a witness is assigned to sign a block. Every 63 seconds the top 20 witnesses plus a randomly selected witness outside the top 20 get to sign a block and receive a reward for it in form of HP. The higher up on the rank, the more often a witness will get to sign blocks and thus increase revenue through witness payout. Hence by using your vote, you can exert influence on which of the witnesses get to sign the blocks.
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Additionally, witnesses can set certain parameters for which consensus is needed. A good example is the interest rate on HBD savings. Hence by voting on witnesses with your desired interest, you have an influence on what this interest rate is. For example, the image below shows the interest rates of the top 10 witnesses. You can also see the number of votes in HP the witnesses have and the last block they have signed.
Top 10 witnesses and their HBD APR.
These last signed block gets me to the important topic of this post and that is keeping your votes up to date! Some witnesses are no longer producing blocks, yet still get a large sum of the votes.
Regular Review of Casted Votes
While users typically cast their votes, keeping them up to date is something else. In researching voting behaviour I noticed that many users are voting for witness that are no longer active (i.e., stale). A good example is the recently discontinued witness @steempress. While this witness is no longer signing blocks, it still receives a large portion of votes. These votes, you guessed it, are simply wasted.
The steempress witness still receiving ~21M votes,
If you like to support one of the former owners of steempress @howo, you can vote for his newly released personal witness by searching for his name here, I'm sure he'll appreciate it.
Ain't Nobody Got Time for That
If you don't want to evaluate your votes regularly yourself, or simply just don't find the time, there's an easy way to get out of it. The way out is through proxy voting. The basic concept is that you simply let another user decide. By setting a proxy account, you will automatically vote the same witnesses as the proxy account you have set.
By going to the bottom of #ecency's witnesses page you can set or remove a proxy account of your liking very easily (feel free to add me if you like what I do :)).
Let me Help You
If you do actually want to cast votes yourself, of course it is nice to get reminded once in a while. Therefore, I took the liberty to retrieve a list of users voting for the highest ranked stale witnesses and collected them here. What this means in short is that if you are mentioned in this post you should review your votes. The primersion witnesses page gives you a clean summary of your votes categorised by used, unused, and stale votes. I recommend checking it out and update accordingly!
Votes Getting Wasted
The top 3 highest ranked stale witnesses account for a total of about 47.8 million HP. This this VP is comming from 5534 users. A lot of wasted votes if you ask me. It's easy to see why reviewing your votes is not a bad thing to do! Below you see some of the top three witness stats. The corresponding users casting a vote are listed at the end of this post.
| Witness | Votes (MV) | Voters | Last block (currently above 80.966.559) | Last price feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| steempress | 37140 | 2040 | 80539404 | 14 days |
| aggroed | 32545 | 2476 | 74065540 | 378 days |
| thecryptodrive | 13841 | 1018 | 80616317 | 12 days |
Users that currently cast a vote for these witnesses are listed at the bottom of this page. If you are mentioned, it's perhaps good to check your current witness votes.
Keep This in Mind
To summarize things in a concise manner:
- Voting is important
- Use your 30 votes
- Keep your votes up to date
- Don't vote for stale witnesses
- Proxy your votes if you don't want to deal with it
Users voting for a stale witness: @darthknight, @trafalgar, @xeldal, @therealwolf, @lazy-panda, @vcelier, @dsky, @hiro-hive, @broncnutz, @daveks, @edicted, @vortac, @thecryptodrive, @minnowsupport, @spectrumecons, @diggndeeper.com, @brianoflondon, @zuerich, @steemychicken1, @sepracore, @tobetada, @btu, @steevc, @eturnerx, @mcoinz79, @mathfortress, @cryptoandcoffee, @steem.leo, @tattoodjay, @resiliencia, @definethedollar, @newsflash, @sweetsssj, @pinmapple, @justinparke, @fredrikaa, @deanliu, @dhimmel, @myegoandmyself, @traciyork, @ksteem, @lordbutterfly, @apshamilton, @jlsplatts, @nateaguila, @bitrocker2020, @newageinv, @bowess, @cesky, @bartosz546, @cleanplanet, @sorin.cristescu, @jim888, @someguy123, @carrinm, @stimp1024, @familyprotection, @brittandjosie, @bobinson, @isaria, @ericvancewalton, @jarvie, @riverflows, @tonyz, @paydice, @d-company, @verbalshadow, @anttn, @ervin-lemark, @behiver, @trumpman, @hebrew, @abbak7, @lesiopm, @petrvl, @rishi556, @sketch.and.jam, @neuerko, @jayna, @leofinance, @maxwellmarcusart, @adamrobinson, @fermionico, @itchyfeetdonica, @joshman, @maarnio, @barbara-orenya, @juliakponsford, @pataty69, @pele23, @mariannewest, @gamer00, @lacking, @rivalhw, @travelfeed, @ash, @flemingfarm, @phortun, @discovereurovelo, @felander, @hope-on-fire, @trucklife-family, @trangbaby, @chorock, @steemstem, @drax, @cleanyourcity, @strenue, @crypt-skip, @justclickindiva, @trincowski, @improv, @kaerpediem, @zekepickleman, @dbooster, @sydechan, @bitcoinsig, @kachinhenry, @glenalbrethsen, @browery, @kevinwong, @koenau, @kerrislravenhill, @captainquack22, @freewritehouse, @lighteye, @nanosesame, @primalamusica, @unbiasedwriter, @reward.app, @boxcarblue, @mobbs, @ackhoo, @rynow, @lynds, @krakonos, @julianhorack, @elizabethbit, @johnhtims, @silvertop, @plantstoplanks, @discovery-it, @newilluminati, @jjprac, @megadrive, @captainbob, @enmy, @davidlionfish, @priyanarc, @dhedge, @city-of-dresden, @stever82, @stephen.king989, @irvinc, @lorenzopistolesi, @ammonite, @fjcalduch, @dmilliz, @schlafhacking, @stortebeker, @soyrosa, @millycf1976, @nrg, @elevator09, @buildteam, @maxigan, @metzli, @stefano.massari, @iamjadeline, @shadowspub, @edouard, @katerinaramm, @kamilla19, @dkid14, @canadian-coconut, @baibuaza, @fundurian, @jacuzzi, @farm-mom, @mjhomb, @chinchilla, @fotostef, @missdeli, @kirstin, @blueeyes8960, @stiant, @slhp, @oblivioncubed, @pixiepost, @kristal24, @digi-me, @bucipuci, @tazi, @shasta, @gwilberiol, @eugelys, @shaidon, @ambyr00, @joanstewart, @lovelemon, @beverages, @erikklok, @thebigsweed, @liliana.duarte, @apnigrich, @teammo, @lizanomadsoul, @haastrecht, @barmbo, @pixaroma, @reiseamateur, @yameen, @jaouad2d, @criptosectadepit, @fronttowardenemy, @pandasquad, @lisbethseijas, @michelle.gent, @cryptospa, @orionvk, @senstless, @bluefinstudios, @nikolina, @marlyncabrera, @harveyword, @richardfyates, @heroldius, @fotogruppemunich, @macoolette, @anarcist69, @new.things, @steemskate, @chrisaiki, @omra-sky, @ybanezkim26, @adetorrent, 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Thanks for the shout-out :)
If you guys wants to check out what I do, I wrote a witness post here: https://peakd.com/witness/@howo/annoucing-my-solo-witness
Glad you liked it! Name dropping was the least I could do, especially now that I know first hand how hard it is to get a witness some momentum :D Now that you're here, where did fredrikaa go?
I can't speak for him, but he is likely to focus more on his other non-crypto projects
Done... I re-arrange my vote and also vote @howo
Awesome!
Thanks a lot for your effort. I've just updated my votes.
Is there a way that one's votes run with an expiration date? Durability of 30, 90, 180 or whatever days make sense?
Hi @growandbow, great! Unfortunately there’s no option like that. But I’m thinking about writing a regular reminder post to encourage ppl to keep them up to date. 👍
I see. Good idea. Keep it up. And I hope your post has reached a lot of voters to be aware of it, from now on.
Thought about the durability of votes, that it's good for dead /lost accounts which still have HP. Are those votes simply wasted, or do they have any influence for statistic matters? Or do the stale witnesses profit from it?
Yeah your pointing out an important point. Votes of dead or locked account remain untouched. Some of the high ranked witnesses are favored due to some extremely large dead accounts having voted for them. I think votes should have a validity time in order to keep things fair and up to date. As you suggest :)
thanks for reminding me to check my votes removed the ones that are not working for a long time and voted for you
Happy it was useful! And many thanks for the vote 🙏
Dat zijn te veel tags 🙈🫣😁
Ja klopt... of zijn het teveel stemmen op dode witnesses 😂
Niemand vindt leuk als er te veel users worden getagged 😉 Beste is om alles in delen te maken en dan meest belangrijke te taggen. Jou verhaal kon in 4 delen gemaakt worden 😎
Im cast my vote for your witness
Hi @myth0, thanks for the support!
Hi Mike. Nice read there and thanks for providing that link to check out of date witnesses. I always vote for witnesses that stop by my posts from time to time and give me some sugar to let me know they appreciate my vote. Kind of like a local politician sorting something out for me to guarantee my vote. I have voted you as a witness. I ain't no whale but might be in time. But as someone said to me , I would rather 20 sausages every day than steak once per month. Best of luck in your new venture. I like these posts explaining how to go about it. Sometimes I think all the witnesses are in cahoots so I would like to read about your experiences.
Hi Blanchy, thanks for letting me know! I'm just experimenting with everything here. I followed you, so I should be in the loop now! And yeah the establishment is like a fort one could not enter. I figured out that some of the big guys are receiving votes from huge whales that were active on steem and never had any activity on hive. Sort of like a real politician getting 10% of the votes for free just because he was around long enough. Something I will bring in debate one of these days :D Have a good one!
Good to hear. Well you have my vote so best of luck with it. Look forward to see how you get on.
Thanks for the heads up. I was just looking at my witness votes a few days ago. I'll review them again.
One contention I have about witness votes is that there are a lot of dead accounts with witness votes and those votes are essentially dead. So, even active witnesses could be benefiting from dead votes, propping them up into the top 20 when they may not actually be a top 20 witness. That's something that can be fixed at the coding level simply by disallowing witness votes from accounts that have not been active for at least 6 months.
Fully agree with you! In fact I already mentioned this notion somewhere in this thread. I agree with some regular reset of votes due to inactivity. I’m planning to bring up this elephant in the room in the future. But I want to distill a list of such accounts, where their votes end up, and how the witness rankings would look like without them. Thanks a lit for bringing it up though! 🙏
I reviewed my witness votes and threw one your way. Keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot! I’ll be posting update posts regularly to keep voters in the loop 👌
Gave you votes from a couple accounts. Not much since I am relatively new here but I sure every little bit helps. !lol
Good Luck and thank you for the reminder to review my picks.
Awesome, thanks! Every vote shares the same amount of community support! Good to see you stuck around after an initial few posts 💪
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thx for information
Happy it was useful :)
I've adjusted my votes to you. It would be helpful to know which witnesses are active/inactive but as you say.
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Haha nice! I'll take good care I promise :)
Good luck on the new witness 👍🏼
Thanks!
Obrigado, vou atualiza as testemunhas. @howo terá meu voto.
You're welcome! :)
Thanks for reminding us.
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Glad it helped :)
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Graag gedaan! Misschien post ik periodiek wel een bericht als deze 👍
Ik zeg goed plan👍
gracias amigo, muy buena actualización
Happy to be of use :)
Thank you.
Happy I could help :)
Voted for you, thanks for heads up
Thanks for the vote! Happy that my post was of use :)
I didn't know Steempress had shut down. I removed my vote. Thanks for the tip
You're welcome :)
Thanks... I thought i was up to date... I'll have a look
Awesome!
Very informative information. I took a look at my witness votes, adjusted them, eliminating certain witnesses and voting for the ones at the top of the page, including yourself.
thanks for getting me back on track with the witnesses I vote for.
Awesome! Thanks a lot :)
Thanks for reminding.
Welcome!
Thank you for the information shared with us and for the respective mention.
I will start reviewing and updating my witness vote history in a few minutes.
Perfect, I hope it worked out!
Thank you for mentioning me
Happy it helps :)
Thanks for the heads up mate!
Happy to be of help!
Done... I re-arrange my vote,and vote you as my witness
Ah that's great, thanks a lot!
This is good I didn't know I'm voting for a stale witness I will check ✅ on it soon do keep tagging for any new post you make would love to learn more.
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I plan to have more posts on this general topic for sure! Glad that it was helpful :)
Thank you again keep it coming.
Also if the stale witness continue being voted do they receive payment from these votes?
I'm not really sure what is this witness votes are for really been reading about it few time even yours don't really get the clear picture
No they don't. Only witness who actually sign a block get a payment. Here you can see what witnessed made in the recent past: https://primersion.com/earnings
Ah ok that's good
Now I see the list this is amazing they earn 900usd per day that's fantastic
Yeah the numbers are big. But the top also have a lot of running cost due to the many blocks to sign and backup nodes they have running.
Oh so there is a cost to it what are the running cost you mentioned?
Also blocks to sign?
Backup nodes?
Sorry too many questions from what I read from other posts basically they have personal computers they are running 24hours like a server for hive to be able to run smoothly do my explanation summaries it or I'm totally wrong?
Thank you for this. I think some of us vote on sentiment rather than logic, and I needed to unvote quite a few of these inactive ones and a few active ones that don't deserve my vote.
Yeah you are absolutely right! Good to see you updated to your liking :)
It's something that needs to be checked every so often.
Great update
Glad you liked it :)
I tried voting you through hive keychain and hive signer but it was not successful
Which website are you using to post? PeakD, Ecency perhaps? You can use one of these pages alternatively perhaps, good luck:
@michelmake Hello friends, this publication seems to me very illustrative and accurate that contributes positively in the development of our eco-system, so I will certainly take into account your recommendation. Best regards!
Thanks!
Thank you for this. Gonna check out who I voted for.😌
Perfect!
Thank's, For the heads'up @michelmake !
You're welcome, hope it's useful!
Thanks for the reminder.
I try to update them every now and then . I have not done so in awhile, so I am not surprised I have had some of my witnesses go inactive.
Have a great day.
Yeah, I also forgot in the past from time to time. Nice to be able to remind you :)
sorry i dont understand much. but im tagged.
Hi @dafusa, you should try to update you witness votes as some of them are on outdated (no longer existing) witnesses.
Gracias por la información. Ya tienes mi voto!!
You're welcome :)
Updated my votes, @howo in, @steempress out
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@tedus(1/5) tipped @michelmake
I just read the post, but I already voted for you as a testgo. Greetings.
My usual practice is that when I come across a witness I feel is contributing to the ecosystem in a way I want to support I will remove a vote from an inactive and move it to the new choice.
While you probably put some thought into what you wrote about the function of witnesses and you compiled a list of people to tag spam ... you didn't mention anything about what you contribute to the ecosystem. Might be helpful. Until today, I've never come across your name that I can recall.
thanks for the heads up. what do you have to do to become a witness?
just saw you tagged me for "stale witness voting."
So? idgaf and I don't let me pressure into gaf'ing :D
But I gladly exlain why idgaf. It'spPart of the game theory implemented in this protocol.
I don't care about details, but watch the big picture - from time to time.
Also I see and use HIVE as a social media platform not an "investment".
Why have I been tagged in this?
Thank you for mentioning me, but I will be living Hive permanently during early 2024. I'll try to see however if I can review my witness vote. All the best and plenty of success here! 🙂
Ah, too bad. End of a time I guess... Good luck :)
Thank you very much for your positive comment! Plenty of luck and success to you here on Hive and beyond! It's almost the end of the road for me here, but not actually of my own choice. Take care, stay safe, and have an excellent December and a wonderful Christmas!