Brilliant post! As a follower of your weekly Curation & Engagement Leagues post, I am enthused to see this post.
Understandably, not all the witnesses are social butterflies (love that you added all the caveats!) Many developers are passionate about coding and not chatting, so I wouldn't ding them simply for not being on the top of this list. However, your list gives us non-witnesses a good perspective on the witnesses' level of activity here on the platform. If they are not actively developing or engaging within the community, what are they doing? Why should we support a witness simply because the person has longevity on this platform or supporters with a gazillion SP?
As always, appreciate you taking the time to compile this list. I would love this compilation as an ongoing post of yours. Have a great day Asher!
P.S. I'm not surprised to see the two powerhouse of @steemcommunity in the top rankings of engagement!
Edited: I see a particularly witness on the list that have many posts, but did not have many self-votes. Since some of these witnesses own bidbots, I wonder if it would be helpful to know if any of them used their own services to say..boost their page to trending in the payout earnings of $1,000+? I know @doomsdaychassis would love this particular stats.
Finally got round to this one :)
In short, we shouldn't :)
Off the top of my head, I don't see any of the names above doing this, but I'm ok with being corrected.
It would be nice to present a sheet each week with a myriad of information, but the compilation of this would take a lot of time - not ruling out 'total bot sends' yet though.
Thanks for the detailed reply here and for the others in this post also :)
Would require more expenditure I have at the moment to make any correction. :) Perhaps a combined use of services, not just the one they own to boost themselves to trending.
A myriad of information could possibly enlighten us some more, but you have to factor in if people would take the time to look at all the stats? Weigh if those hours you take to provide the analysis will make a difference for the readers? Time is a valuable commodity. The stats above are already time-consuming and I greatly appreciate it. :)
just gotta poke the bear don't ya? lol
How else are you to get any honey from this bee? ;)