Hey @luegenbaron, thx for commenting!

Those 300 HIVEians, in particular, are they less equal, or should they get fewer rights because of who they voted for as a witness (or proxy) on a completely different chain? A chain that has nothing to do with HIVE? Is voting even real if you have to vote in a prescribed manner? If not, we could simply end the charade by having the top 20 witnesses enact a hard fork that automatically proxies everyone's witness vote to a designated account that'll vote them in as witnesses permanently. In my mind witness voting is either real and meaningful or as fugazi as Justin's sock witnesses were.