I agree with most of what you're saying, and especially some of the parts of "requirements" of witnesses, although I feel with little research one can quickly determine which ones are out there bringing value/doing stuff other than just producing blocks. While the security of the chain is important and I'm not trying to take anything away from that, I never really agreed with some who use that as an excuse (you're voting us to trust us with the security solely) to just go afk or maybe pick up a couple codes and mash them together once every 6 months pretending to have been doing things.
The sad part is some of them have personally told me they've pretty much given up on Hive but price is too low to sell so they're just gonna stick around and see what happens. I'm of course not going to mention who cause it was a private conversation, but I feel like that's most likely not the only one. I'm of course not voting for them as I've removed most of my votes from the top20 aside from a few I think still deserve a spot there and may be close to falling off as the rest of my votes go to lower up and coming witnesses which I also wish were doing or at least trying to do something more.
I've already commented on my view of HBD in a couple other witness posts so not going to go into that now, it's getting a bit late here for my rhythm anyway, but I respect people's choices to vote out those they don't agree with even if it's something about this.
Yeah I think a lot of people are simply waiting for it to hit a dollar and then pull out everything they got. Sad if true, and I hope it's not...
It's true that you can do some research but to me that's now how it should be. It should be in my face. If it's in my face, I know they're active and they give a shit, rather than like you say, go AFK and come back a couple of times a year. I want people who legitimately care, like you, about how things are going forward. And perhaps they all do, but I don't get that vibe just by doing a little research.
You said you've personally spoken to one who has given up, but I couldn't really make an educated guess whatsoever who. I can probably rule out you, Btrades and gtg, though still maybe not at 100%. But the rest? Free for all. Could be any or all of 'em.
That's just not conducive to a voting democratic ecosystem. If they don't care it should be utterly obvious because 50 more who do care should be crawling over each other to take their place.
To be clear my votes are gonna be going back to OCD and btrades with almost 99% certainty once I've trawled through the alternatives lol. Just making a political point with that. Lowering APR to 0% would be at worst a bit of a bother for me personally lol.
Honestly you do have a point that there should be more attention to these parts of hive from the front-ends, similar to how they warn you about your gov votes running out or other things they could place some reminders to check your witness votes and also look at the DHF proposal and then on top of it all make it easier for you to find out what people are up to somehow. Those wanting to stay in the top and wanting to rise the ranks would surely do what it takes to make it easier for voters to figure out what they up to.
Yeah exactly. I know they have a lot of other things on their plates, but so does every other leader of every other thing, and those people generally have the burden to be the public figure to garner knowledge and trust in what it is they do.
I mean I guess its fine if they don't bother, I still ironically trust them all more than most corporate leaders and chairs, I'd just say in that case to get rid of the whole governance farce entirely, given the nature of DPOS Just give the power to vote to the top 10 stakeholders or something lol
Although your title might be stretching it a bit, lol.
Had to attempt some kind of attention grabbing lol... But I mean in the purest definition it kinda is. Doesn't necessarily mean an evil dictatorship, just a dead democracy