Hey folks,
I was doing my usual status checks on my own co-witness @PolleNation and checking on the health of the witnesses I personally vote for as well as vote for on behalf of the other Hivians who trust me to be their voting proxy. It prompted me to make this very necessary post about housekeeping in the Hive.
I think it's very important to remind everyone of the importance of periodically double checking your own witness vote choices, to make sure they still reflect your intentions, are still performing to your expectations and are in fact, still even operational.
Some important notes follow the table about what you should consider regarding dead witnesses.
The following witnesses numbered 200 and above are showing as deactivated:
| Rank # | Name | Last Block | Last Price Feed | Voter Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | @steempress | 250 Days | 250 Days | 931 |
| 50 | @aggroed | 475 Days | 614 Days | 1366 |
| 75 | @thecryptodrive | 247 Days | 248 Days | 479 |
| 78 | @igormuba | 10 Days | 18 Days | 142 |
| 82 | @kevinwong | 162 Days | 162 Days | 237 |
| 48 | @lukestokes.mhth | 842 Days | 749 Days | 213 |
| 101 | @roomservice | 638 Days | 582 Days | 132 |
| 102 | @steempress | 36 Days | 35 Days | 166 |
| 105 | @demeilaz | 89 Days | 89 Days | 249 |
| 112 | @dbuzz | 434 Days | 435 Days | 359 |
| 113 | @gerber | 989 Days | 948 Days | 59 |
| 114 | @followbtcnews | 696 Days | 706 Days | 398 |
| 116 | @stem.witness | 1004 Days | 964 Days | 57 |
| 117 | @jackmiller | 1283 Days | 1285 Days | 20 |
| 120 | @delegate.lafona | 1397 Days | 1390 Days | 15 |
| 121 | @ats-witness | 1311 Days | 1309 Days | 13 |
| 122 | @ihashfury | 1458 Days | 1463 Days | 12 |
| 130 | @jamzed | 29 Days | 53 Days | 69 |
| 131 | @mintrawa | 156 Days | 156 Days | 83 |
| 132 | @bhuz | 662 Days | 2110 Days | 73 |
| 133 | @diyhub | 335 Days | 335 Days | 142 |
| 137 | @holger80 | 1042 Days | 1038 Days | 103 |
| 138 | @cedricguillas | 363 Days | 363 Days | 194 |
| 139 | @felixxx | 884 Days | 935 Days | 60 |
| 142 | @thealliance | 413 Days | 419 Days | 119 |
| 146 | @nathanmars | 768 Days | 780 Days | 98 |
| 147 | @c-squared | 1461 Days | 1464 Days | 78 |
| 148 | @dragosroua | 806 Days | 807 Days | 71 |
| 151 | @netuoso | 1290 Days | 1369 Days | 103 |
| 152 | @imwatsi | 422 Days | 422 Days | 14 |
| 153 | @kristall97 | 734 Days | 734 Days | 45 |
| 154 | @nexo.witness | 107 Days | 167 Days | 87 |
| 156 | @markangeltrueman | 2095 Days | 2100 Days | 5 |
| 157 | @satren | 662 Days | 1138 Days | 46 |
| 158 | @untersatz | 1613 Days | 1562 Days | 6 |
| 160 | @schlees.witness | 726 Days | No Feed | 36 |
| 162 | @maiyude | 1595 Days | 1598 Days | 2 |
| 165 | @riverhead | 1119 Days | 1207 Days | 47 |
| 167 | @nextgencrypto | 1513 Days | 1574 Days | 31 |
| 169 | @altonos | 662 Days | No Feed | 40 |
| 171 | @ehon.witness | 766 Days | No Feed | 19 |
| 173 | @splinterboost | 531 Days | 529 Days | 104 |
| 178 | @fulltimegeek | 2041 Days | 152 Days | 11 |
| 179 | @agoric.systems | 2420 Days | 2426 Days | 1 |
| 182 | @chbartist | 1735 Days | 1711 Days | 14 |
| 186 | @utopian-io | 1936 Days | 1932 Days | 57 |
| 187 | @reggaemuffin | 1694 Days | 1698 Days | 24 |
| 189 | @teamsteem | 1799 Days | 1791 Days | 29 |
| 190 | @inthenow | 777 Days | 778 Days | 17 |
| 191 | @travelfeed | 1596 Days | 1582 Days | 9 |
| 192 | @xeldal | 1690 Days | 1782 Days | 40 |
| 194 | @prc | 1414 Days | 1391 Days | 13 |
| 197 | @thekitchenfairy | 1606 Days | 1607 Days | 7 |
| 199 | @rondonson | 2493 Days | 2492 Days | 1 |
| 200 | @helpie | 1646 Days | 1649 Days | 23 |
It's important to keep your witness votes current for the best chain governance.
If you are named on this list, I encourage you to post a reminder to your voters that your witness is no longer operational.
If you are actively voting, you should check your choices to see if you are voting for dead witnesses.
If you intend to reestablish your witness, nothing need be done, however most of these have been down for literal years, and only a few are very recently disabled, so it seems likely most are not returning to operation.
Dead witnesses that contain active voters will never be removed from this list. I understand that some of these voters are just as long-gone as the witnesses and those should eventually expire from lack of voting activity.
In the absence of a user voting for one year, their votes do eventually expire. Take note however, that making updated votes on some of your witnesses or proposals and taking part in governance resets that clock, which means active voters may never expire from dead witness selections included in their current choices, unless they manually also remove these votes from these dead witnesses.
Please check that all of your votes are in fact directed toward operational witnesses and not being wasted, for your own benefit and that of optimal witness block distribution scheduling performance.
If you proxy your vote to another user, please encourage them to periodically do housekeeping on their vote selections on your behalf. It's always better to make your own selections than to proxy, but I do understand that not everyone wishes to manage these votes and chooses a proxy to make their selections for them.
Actively managing your witness selections leads to better governance, better chain performance and a better Hive for everyone.
Post-posting Update:
I have just discovered that if you put your user name into the box on the top of this page, it will segregate out and highlight the dead witnesses you have votes applied on and place them at the top of the list with a warning message, allowing you to double check your list for dead witnesses quickly and easily at any time, as well as being able to login and make revised voting selections or even first time voting selections right on the page.
https://primersion.com/witnesses
Thank you for your time!
Please consider re-blogging this to spread the word throughout the chain to best reach all voting account holders beyond my own feed's reach, and be sure to check in with your chosen witnesses on their posts and comments to encourage them to continue doing their good work for the benefit of the chain and all us!
We're in this together, so let's keep our house clean!
Regards,
@SirCork
@PolleNation witness partner
Data Source:
I manually assembled this information using the data so graciously and consistently provided by @arcange on his dynamic witness list monitoring page.
Thank you @arcange for this incredibly useful resource and for keeping it online for so many years now.
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You just pinged me 10 times...
edit: you pinged 385 people 10 times with this trash.
What's it to you, anyways? In which way does my deactivated witness bother you?
Do you use peakd? I get duplicate and triplicate pings on there all the time. clear notifications, they come right back on the next refresh. Not the best JS in there perhaps.
But if the message got through, then that was the goal, and perhaps you'll take this chance to make a post to pass it on to your voters, so they can be aware that their energy can be redirected to functional witnesses. Most users don't check the witness pages that show downed witnesses, only the ones in the voting page on whatever blog UI they use. And further most of them don't look at that very often or at all after they place or proxy their votes the first time.
You're the only person I've heard back from on the list, so at least its good to know you didn't get hit by a bus!
In fact, I got yours twice just now myself, and it's likely to pop up again on peak.
if you don't know why it bothers the chain, the community, the other witnesses, then it's probably a very good thing you are not one anymore.
What?
Every edit is another ping.
I edited my post - that's 2 posting transactions on the blockchain - 2 pings.
Has nothing to do with peakd - that's how hivemind works.
You don't understand shit.
The votes don't hurt anyone. You just want traffic to your post and you are also rude about it.
We will let the comments here decide who is rude, and also illustrate why you never even made it up above 150 and quit. Please do continue.
You know it's wrong to tie up votes on dead witnesses, you seem to be the one who thinks you "understand shit".
The post content is valid, the comments reflect the appreciation of the reminder. As do the upvotes.
And I am certain in your "understanding of shit" (such an eloquent and erudite phrase, very mature and witness representation worthy), you know why the voters should direct their votes to functional witness and not dead ones. If you do not understand that, then my prior remark stands.
I will always have dead witness votes. A lot of these people just quit. There is nothing I can do about it. I have properly disabled my witness - it's not getting blocks.
Yet, I get regularily tagged and spammed by people acting all important about it. It does nothing. It's just that: dead votes.
I'd be more concerned about the active witnesses who don't even read their notifications, which is almost all of them...
Just stop @ ing me and stop acting like these votes would matter. Fuck off.
It's a very good thing you quit, gave up and crawled off, you are a toxic person and clearly don't understand the importance of governance on the chain. Your remarks here, public and permanent as they are, stand as proof of that.
You certainly made my case for me, but I suppose you think you somehow, sounded superior. When you merely sounded embarrassed, juvenile, and small.
Great reminder! ✨
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Good reminder. I go through my every now and again to keep it tidy :)
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You must be killin' it out here!
@summertooth just slapped you with 5.000 PIMP, @sircork.
You earned 5.000 PIMP for the strong hand.
They're getting a workout and slapped 2/4 possible people today.
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Damn, witnessing for only a week or two and you already look way older than your avatar 😬
Drink some water or something, we need you for the long haul :D
I assure you, I AM way older than my avatar. That avatar goes all the way back to June of 2017 when I first joined steem. It carried me through my first run as a top witness and now, 7 years later, I guess it's a pretty good cover story for the old gray beard I am now in my second iteration of witnessing now on Hive :)
Oh shit you were a top 20 witness I hope I voted for you back then I mean I voted for you back then 💯💯💯😜
Never made it to the top 20, best I ever did was I think somewhere in the thirties, but in those days that was as good as a "regular" person could get against the ninja mined insiders and private selected "club" controlled by the ancient evil ones. So up to about 50 was a top witness in the eyes of the common folks.
Cool. Some things never change, I guess :/
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Water can't fix this :) Seven years later, that water is already under the bridge.
Thank you for the PSA reminder.✌
I haven't had an opportunity to review and update my witnesses.
Upvoted and curated for exposure!
That list is a walk down memory lane. Miss old Jack Miller. Still on his walkabout one assumes. Hope all's well.
You know, that's one name I was actively thinking about and planning to try and reach out to. I spent all day yesterday thinking about how we could somehow revive the #steemwars, but as #hivewars. I even went surfing through the old posts for awhile. So many people, from so many countries got into that posting battle. It wasn't actually @JackMiller's idea but he was instrumental in propelling it. I had so much fun making those #TeamUSA posts against the Aussies and all the rest who took part.
I hope we can get him to be one of the one's hearing the siren's call that has been bringing back so many OGs over this last week or two.
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Thank you for this ... I do check mine fairly regularly, and I appreciate this list to do a recheck.
Exactly!
I have just realized by looking into this even further that if you put your user name into the box on the top of this page, it will segregate out and highlight the dead witnesses you have votes for at the top of the list, allowing you to double check your list for dead witnesses at any time, and super quickly and easily.
https://primersion.com/witnesses
How is steempress at 48 and 102?
ooops typo. steempress was the line I was cutting and pasting to make the next line out of in the peakd table syntax ( |stuff|things|theotherthing| )
So I must have either double-pasted or missed changing a name on a line when grabbing the other numbers one by one, cut and paste. I made this table by hand on two monitors lol.
Luke's been mia for a bit now, but he does post occasionally still.
Yes, last saw him at the tree meetup. I know not long after the forkening he sort of went off to other chains and jobs somewhere. Surprised to hear he posts here at all now.
Yep, didn't change the name
and I made luke.stokes 48 also but hes further down, didn't change the witness position column.
Good reminder to check mine!