Easy peasy answer for measy:
Contributions: to the chain via app building, community building, node stability (not missing blocks,etc)
Accessibility: Are they ivory tower witnesses who never post or come to the discords or show themselves in public on comments, or on streaming interviews or anywhere, ever? Those are a hard pass, no matter how "busy" they may be building and running things, if you aren't in the community, just go mine bitcoin blocks in complete anonymity FFS.
Personality: Yup, I take hits myself on this one, there's folks just not able to understand my kind of passionate tough love for the chain and it's people. But some are just toxic, slimy assholes, and others are the most genuine and lovable humans on Earth. These matter to ME.
How they benefit me: Just being honest, if a witness makes tools I personally use, thats a higher level to me than one who makes tools I do not personally use. Again, this is relative, as one who makes tools or communities or whatever that I don't use, also gets a higher opinion from me than one who does nothing at all, except pay $50 bucks a month for a server to make blocks and draw producer rewards with no other chain input at all from them.
Financial settings on their witness config: Important but most of them all set about the same things anyway here.
Will my vote even matter to them?: On the list for honesty's sake. If I have one vote to give and it could go to a top 20 witness where my tiny megavests and proxy voter chain under my control would be a tear drop in their ocean of votes, I am going to be more likely to give my vote to a #70 witness who works hard and where my tiny MV might move them to #69 instead of kind of wasting it on the guy who won't even know my vote is there at all.
That's about it, not much madness to my methods, in my opinion, and they are real and honest and in a couple of my criteria, say things out loud that not everyone is willing to admit are true for them too. Like personality. It's real, don't even lie.
Thanks for listening!
If you would to like to support a mid-level witness that builds apps, games, communities and is present and accessible all over discord and the posts and comments every single day, well I know a partnership team witness you might want to consider! ;) But I won't plug it here, we're easy to find, which is kind of the point! :)
@acidyo be kinda cool if you unmuted me, but its your perogative, I always thought you were cool, but I guess your association with people I think are very uncool may have lead to this at some point in the past, but its odd to vote my comment, but leave it hidden :)
I have had quite bad experiences with things you've said in the past, while I acknowledge your comment and resurgence of activity it doesn't mean I trust you or your intentions at this point in time. What I can say is that you were right about ned at least so that's why I'm not completely ignoring you.
LOL, fair, I appreciate the explanation. We can delete this exchange if you would like :)