RE: [UPDATED] ATS-Witness is Temporarily Offline for Upgrade

[eroche]

I am putting in some effort at the moment to update my votes. I think it will benefit Steem to have a diverse array of talents in the witness pool so I would like to see more witnesses and more competition.

In terms of witness voting, each round of votes chooses from the top 20 and one backup witness. Does it matter where you rank outside the to 20 in terms of your chance of being picked to produce a block as a backup witness?

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[isnochys]

One has 30 votes, so why not split them:

• 10 to known and TOP witnesses, one you trust your STEEM with
• 10 for uprising stars, that provided one or two things, worth supporting
• 10 for some newcomers, kind of an investment into STEEM, see if they are worth it.

I am not doing it that way, I may be a bit greedy, but every vote that goes to another witness, would hurt me;)
Once I am in the TOP 100 I may change my view.

Yes, it matters how many votes you have.
The more votes, the higher the change, you will get selected.
It is randomly, but more votes means more tickets for you in the random draw.
https://steemian.info/witnesses
#21 is every 30-60 Minutes
#124 every 27 hours (my spot)

[eroche]

I like this idea of spreading your vote.

[isnochys]

"Do you have any link that shows the geo location of the witness seed nodes. I am looking to do a report on it but I can't find any."

Witness nodes are a secret.
They are a bit more secured by that obscurity, that witnesses should never tell the nodes IP:)
I think you have to follow the hard path and ask the witnesses themself.
Mine is in Germany;)