great article. Im nothing to do with EOS and I dont hold any of the coins but I feel like i learned something from this (or at least, I COULD learn something from this if I needed to!)
I sort of feel like a regular senate of specialists would be handy for keeping track of key witnesses and discussing the philospohical implications of voting certain characters in to power. I don't know how you could ensure that this senate was neutral, but personally for me (as a not particularly technical OR diligent person) I feel i would only ever be able to engage in this voting process if I could choose from a number of percieved potential future developments based on the group analysis of some well informed commentators. On steemit I have felt unable to cast votes purely because Ive only been drawn to witnesses who are creating something that I PERSONALLY like or that someone else is unashamedly promoting. I am sick of both of these tendencies in government voting and the last thing I want to do is enter in to the same useless behavioural patterns in an environment that I would so love to see become genuinely revolutionary. I realise this blatently reveals that I havn't worked very hard to research all the winesses, but I dont really understand the ACTUAL implications within this system, so it really feels like Id have to become an expert to make my votes worthwhile. I personally don't have the time, energy or motivation for this.....and I imagine that in reality this is the case for most people