I think the point is that the consensus witnesses never had the popular vote, only the high stakes votes of a few.
You can't count the current votes for this situation, because they aren't voting for anyone, just against Justin.
As for more or less decentralized, that's simply playing semantics. It's either decentralized or it's not and it never has been, because of how the current voting system works.
This needs to change for Steem to move forward in a positive direction.
Yep, you are spot on. They had a handful of the largest whale votes which was the only thing keeping them in. Which is also why they never got around to changing the witnesses voting protocols long ago like many suggested. It would have been against their financial interest to do so.
I would have to disagree with you on: You can't count the current votes for this situation, because they aren't voting for anyone, just against Justin. that statement. @goodkarma has 19,742 individual votes, that indivual accounts voting for him as a witness, he has always had a lot of indivual votes. @goodguy24 has 153 individual accounts voting for him not even close to anyone's imagination for popular vote.
@someguy123 has 11,033 popular votes and is in position 31
@respect888 has 70 popular votes and is in position 30
So your statement:You can't count the current votes for this situation, because they aren't voting for anyone, just against Justin." is totally off base. The people of steem block chain have spoken loud and clear of how they feel about Justin Sun's sock puppet witnesses. He has not even been able to get the Korean community to vote for his witnesses.
As a community we may not like what the witnesses do sometimes, but we all understand that they have the best interest of the Community behind their actions.
I stand by my statement.
I understand, we all see things a little bit differently, that is what makes and keeps the walking world interesting, and the online typing world interesting.
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Yeah, it was even said by Aggroed that he was the only top 20 witnesses that got into his position without Freedom's massive stake voting them in. Essentially one account got these witnesses in. Frankly, I'd like to see completely new witnesses enter the top 20.
I like Matt and Aggroed, but I'd like to see them focus on their game and the SE dex. I want to see completely fresh new top 20 witnesses. Not Justin's accounts and not the old batch, but people attracting a much larger collection of the community and getting in because they satisfy their demands.
agreed