RE: Witness Questionnaire - A Solution for Voter Confusion?

[andrew0]

I have quite confused ideas about witnesses myself, but I think it would be a good idea to create such questionnaire.

The problem is: will the average user take time to answer it?

Comments

[thecryptofiend]

You are not the only one. Most of the regular users I have spoken to don't understand it and don't even know how to vote, who to vote for or why.

The questionnaire itself is not for the average user to answer it is for the witnesses. I have presented it for everyone to discuss and help refine if they think it needs to changes.

As for whether witnesses will answer it and to what degree - that is up to them. There is no way to force people and I don't think that there should be anyway.

Hopefully this will provide more consistency and accuracy for voting as well as giving the witnesses a starting point for putting their witness posts together - almost like an #introduceyourself for witnesses.

[thecryptofiend]

Steemd has a nice summary here - at the bottom of the page as well. Here is the quote:

On the Steem blockchain, witnesses serve a role of validating signatures and timestamping transactions by including them in blocks. A block is any group of transactions (posts, votes, transfers, etc) which update the state of the database. Each time a witness produces a block, they are paid for their service. If a witness fails to produce a block, then they are not paid, and may even be voted out.

Every round of block production begins with the shuffling of 21 witnesses: the top 19 witnesses (by vote), plus one randomly-selected standby witness, and one miner witness. Each is given a turn to produce a single block at a fixed rate of one block every 3 seconds. If a witness does not produce a block in their time slot, then that time slot is skipped, and the next witness produces the next block.