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RE: Witness Votes - who do the witnesses vote for?
That's an interesting analysis. It's good to see that some witnesses vote for Minnows and Red Fish too and not just each other, for regular upvotes and who don't hog the witness votes, but vote fairly for each other.
Hi @binkyprod, I was a bit hesitant to comment on the way witnesses voted only because there is no 'benchmark' that defines what is acceptable behaviour and what would be seen as nepotism among the witnesses. Of course, there are those that have voted very differently to others by the metrics I have measured but I assume that under different voting rules we would see different results. I hope to do a follow up to this and perhaps look outside the top 30 and see if the patterns hold or not. Thanks for the comments :)
That sounds like a good idea. Top 30 and then the next 30 below them. Also checking the stats at various times of the month and such. After regular checks, you may begin to see a pattern. I wouldn't know where to begin, but it could give us an idea of what type of content these witnesses tend to enjoy. I know Cervantes (I believe that's the name) has voted on a couple of my posts, which I found amazing. It can give us a look into their personalities.
Hi @binkyprod, I think the information that you are looking for in terms of how the witnesses and 'whales' vote has been looked in previous bisteemit posts, but perhaps not to the same depth and over a long period of time as you have suggested. My post was looking at how witnesses used their witness votes and what it might mean, but I will have a think about your comments and see if we can look into this topic in a future post :)
Oh ok, cool. I'll have a look at the #bisteemit tag for those other posts too.