Preach it bud.
If you take a look at @penguinpablo's daily repots you'll see that power downs outperform power ups every single day of the week.
The days that this doesn't happen is usually because blocktrades powers up. Like huge power ups...and hats off to him for that.
And people keep complaining that their vote means nothing when it comes to witness and proposal voting and that a few whales control everything. Power up some Hive so that it matters ffs...Power up so that you can support other peoples blogs too instead of leaching...
Those who constantly power down are the ones who milk it so they can make a living or buy other crypto..
As for the witnesses...I am gonna have a closer look too.
I'm not accusing the witnesses of being the only ones powering down.
To me it's more the principle of them being a "role-model" here, especially in times that Hive is in "heavy weather" (out of CMC top 100, not onboarding masses of newcomers/investors etc).
I am not saying you are accusing them. Neither do I. And after a quick search most of those powerdowns are tiny ones compared to the stake they possess. Probably to cover server costs or something. Except from two. But then again it their right to do what they want with their stake just like it is your right to unvote them if you think that they aren't the "role models" we need, especially for newcomers...but also for the old guard.
Exactly that!