As per title, how do you decide on witnesses and what makes you place your vote or remove your vote from them?
There was quite some discussion, which often resurfaces, in a chat recently about expectation from witnesses, if the rewards they receive are fair, etc, so I and some others were curious to see what other stakeholders expect from them. This isn't meant to be taken personally by anyone or attempt to change your current witness list, just a general feel for how people view the block producer job of Hive.
This might be a bit difficult to put into a poll, so please excuse me if I'm not doing this the best way, but I figured giving people the choice to vote on as many of the choices as possible might give readers an idea of what people find important, even if some of the choices are naturally more important than others.
Feel free to comment your opinion on the choices as well. I'll give some of my thoughts behind the choices and what encompasses them.
Trusted personas that keep the chain safe
- People, whether doxed or not, you trust have the chains and its fundamentals best in mind and will protect it from outside attacks. (Not many examples here but I guess most of us were around before the hive fork and what occurred)
Produce blocks reliably
- Their witnesses don't often randomly miss blocks, crash, etc, have at least a couple instances running (back ups, local, etc)
Actively test upcoming code changes
- Testing of code before major hardforks, making sure no bugs occur that may halt the chain and are around to make sure the forks go through smoothly
Build things on chain without special funding'
- this basically means that they're building things for the sake of hive and its users and potentially their witness position, not something that's being funded privately/through delegations/the DHF
Are active socially
- As a social media platform, it's nice to see the human-side of block producers and feels motivational to see them being active like everyone else through low and high prices
Attempt to advertise hive
- They actively attempt to bring traffic to our platform in one way or another
HBD APR, account costs, block size
- You agree with their decision on the HBD APR, how much hive an account should burn to be created, size of Hive blocks set by witnesses
I decided to leave this poll as "number of votes" rather than stake interpretation, maybe it'd be a good idea to do the other version as well after this poll and potentially with the choices more fine-tuned after feedback. Do let me know what you think.