Hey ya. Thanks for a big time reminder about @bluemist's post. I'm not having a real good week and didn't get it answered-yet :)
I believe really strongly that the witness voting limit should be lowered to 10 or maybe even 7. That and eliminating decay voting would do much to help with the witness transparency.
Anyway. I only vote for 12, and I have added/removed in the last week. I think it is just essential for citizenship on hive. We have several in common, you and I.
Thanks for a great post about a necessary subject!
But when now it's stil 30 and the reason we can blog so untill than could you consider 30 ?
I'm a big fan of 'be the change you want to see', so I'll stay limited. But I would consider adding witnesses outside the top 20...
I'm going to agree with @bigtom13 here @brittandjosie - Witness voting is incredibly complicated and we all have to respect that ultimately it is putting "Your Investment" in a cryptocurrency toward an account you hope will make your investment grow. So while currently we have 30 votes - if you only believe 5 accounts are going to help you Investment - then for sure you should only vote those 5.
I use all 30 of my votes, but that is because being a Witness I appreciate the costs involved - running servers, paying for them, the time taken to get the server running and the time needed to keep it running. Outside the top twenty I doubt any Witness is covering costs, I know I have never even broken even - and that's before I added two new servers to run my full node https://api.c0ff33a.uk
But as a Witness I am not running these servers and supporting the blockchain to gain rank - I'm doing it because I believe in Hive and the Blockchain, I have made many many good friends on here over the last three years and by running these servers I support the blockchain, my investment, and the friends I have made.
That said I really appreciate every single Witness Vote - I have 999 right now and to me that is an incredible number of people supporting my efforts.
Outside it perfect, let’s mix and they all do the work so Yes do it ! I have outside aswell
Thank you this is why I did the blog