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RE: Stop Playing Around! Vote for REAL Steem Witnesses!
Why are the majority of these top witnesses now powering down though, with most starting within the past couple days, while asking everyone else to continue to vote for them? That seems a little odd to me. (this isn't targeted at you because you are not)
It's not always so simple to interpret that just because you see someone powering down.
I'm not currently a witness but for the most part I always have a power down active. That does not mean I actually take the Steem out and sell it. Sometimes I end up powering it back up, or I am simultaneously powering up more than I am powering down (for example, this week I powered up around 200K STEEM, but I still have power down running as usual).
Of course, but when you have a couple of the most vocal witnesses starting FULL powerdowns within the last week while at the same time screaming for everyone to vote for them, it sends a pretty mixed message. I'm not talking about ones that have always been powering down. I'm talking about ones that just started powering down. There are a few asking others to vote for them while reducing the power of their own vote.
I agree the optics and messaging would be better if not powering down. If I were a witness I might consider it for that reason alone, and in fact I still might anyway.
Very good question. .... I am removing all my votes from any Witnesses powering down.
Same here dude! i will update tomorrow!
Somebody should make a post about who is powering down.
well, you know of all the 30 witnesses I voted,(most top 30, except one), only 1/6 of them are not powering down but 5/6 powered down. I'm not certain about costs involved, but most of them have lots of SP already, so I'm not certain about the real means of them powering down.
They prepare for the token swap.
Or they are preparing to dump old steem for the new steem they are going to create by forking. In effect, move value from the one to the new one.
Simple answer, don't vote those who power down. Though some of them need to power down to support a project.