Thanks for this post! It reflects my thoughts and I was actually thinking of writing something about the need for witnesses to be more than block producers. People with access to more inside information often make references to witnesses who are long gone from Hive but still have massive votes. Without nominating them and without communication from part of the witnesses, should we assume that all witnesses who don't communicate are gone from Hive? I'm pretty sure that's not the case, so they should start letting us know what they are doing every once in a while.