What do we do with a delegation?

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Recently davemccoy@davemccoy surprised me be becoming the first user who isn't me to delegate to the program, adding 50 SP to this account. While that was awfully nice of Dave, the unexpectedness of it does leave me with a little bit of a dilemma. My plan had been to pull back my own starter delegations from the accounts that aren't supporting active users starting this week, as they become able to generate enough bandwidth to do what they need to do.

Right now m-hammurabi@m-hammurabi and m-ashurbanipal@m-ashurbanipal follow particleman@particleman's votes, and m-gilgamesh@m-gilgamesh and themesopotamians@themesopotamians follow doctorworm@doctorworm's. Doctor Worm currently has a little bit of an advantage over Particle Man anyway, due to starting earlier, and Dave's delegation gives it a little more. It seems like there are several options for rebalancing the system to make up for that:

  1. Switch Ashurbanipal to trail m-sargon@m-sargon, and themesopotamians@themesopotamians to vote everyone in the system.

  2. Reset my delegation on all the inactive accounts so that Ashurbanipal matches themesopotamians@themesopotamians.

  3. Remove all of my small delegations and set themesopotamians@themesopotamians to follow particleman@particleman instead, so it balances doctorworm@doctorworm's advantage.

  4. Just don't worry about it it's 50 SP it's fine.

The advantage of #1 is that we could then take more delegation by anyone who wants to support the whole system, I suppose. The main advantage of the others is that I don't have to reset everything when Hammurabi launches Level 3 in the fall.

Talking this through in the post has me thinking #1 is probably best at the moment. Thoughts?

What do we do with a delegation? | Ecency