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RE: Proposing A Worker Proposal System For Steem
You are right. Big flaw in DPoS IMO. As you say marketers who have no idea what they are doing may win (and we seen that on Steem) and worse buying votes, cartels, etc. It seems that other DPoS chains have had more problems for whatever reason, but you are right to identify this as a concern.
What i wanna say is for the regular user it is almost impossible to get a full understanding why he chooses a witness or not. In my opinion you must be an Steem expert (just like a witness) with much time to dig deep with steemd, SteemWorld or direct data request from the db to get a comlete picture of the person you voting for. I guess many like myself just voting because we read something, heared something about one, which looks good without any deep knowledge and maybe we are often wrong with our votes for someone and there are much better choices, people who really deserve our witness vote.. but who knows? What is a good witness? How is a good witness defined in a objective manner?
We have this blockchain, all the data right around the corner, BIG data.. basically this is wonderful and because it could be fully transparent but it isn't because of the massive data which needs to be visualized, aggregated to get something like a short profile.
If you think of a profile sheet with some bars, key numbers (which is already too much) and finally like stars valuation but with key numbers which cannot be manipulated like the reputation value (which is insane btw in my eyes, when i came here i was saying "wow what achievement, he got 72.. but after a while i realized that there are many individuals which achieved that not with reputation more like badupation.. but the public view can't see that).
What would be measures, key numbers (pro community, pro chain stability, pro curation) to build a Top 100 of witnesses based on hard blockchain data, not bought votes or something, simply a mix of real proof. Maybe i missed such things 1.5 years because i'm blind, but to me it is very geeky to vote for a candidate because i would end up searching all day long for proof of witness of hundreds of accounts. If i missed something because i'm blind please let me know. It is not about nobody wants to vote but how it should be done for a regular user who just give his 2 cents with a post, comment for vote.
If i look to my voting list, i realize some witnesses are gone, but i found this by accident and my vote is still active. Nobody cares about after chosing the witnesses or thinks about, it would be nice to have something like a monthly report about witness activities (whatever they are) in different categories to see the real facts on the chain and not assumed facts.
You're right on many points and you raise a lot of complicated issues with voting generally including to cost of informed voting, and whether it is even feasible to elect experts because to properly evaluate an expert you probably must be an expert yourself (related to the well known Dunning Kruger Effect). I don't know the answers.
im quite a new here.
i could say that there are zero information in public place who are witnesses and why ibshould vote gor them
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