RE: Understanding The Importance and The Real Roles Of Witnesses.
Very interesting to see the steem version of 'democracy' like this.
But of course it does miss one key element of steemocracy - SP weighted voting ... and the consequent reality that the Top 20 are in effect controlled by one very very large anonymous voter - Freedom/Pumpkin.
In fact 16 of the top 20 heavily rely on the Freedom/Pumpkin vote, along with the majority of the potential replacements in the 21-30 slots.
So the health of the democracy does have to be questioned - particularly as noone knows who Freedom/Pumpkin is.
I have always feared that should Steem ever 'make it big' this single fact will make the platform incredibly vulnerable to the prying eyes of the world's investigative journalists. The phrase 'feeding frenzy' does come to mind...
You are thinking "long term" and you want to see this place be everything it can be for everyone.
That is what I read out of your reply.
This place was put together on the basis of Proof of Brain, yet the inability to comprehend it keeps bringing in that degenerate Proof of Stake (POS) into it.
If anything is to change, it shall take a lot of lobbying from many Steemians and as with any evolution of morals and humanity it shall need a revolution of the mind! (R)Evolution!
We probably need revolutions and evolutions in equal measure.
In fact on some things we may need to turn full circle...
A bit late replying to this lol.
However. One key point is that the vote level for a witness getting to the top 20 should not have any bearing on the voice of the platform, That is were everything falls down.
While the top witness will gain a higher reward. This should not also increase the value of the voice spoken. A higher SP vote to a witness can get them to a top position, But like in all elections after that vote is cast, All witness should have an equal vote on changes. Without this Slavery ensues or a class tier system were only the wealth is listened to.