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RE: Witness Feed Publishing with Automatic SBD/USD Peg
I don't want to be involved in political side of things.
The intent of this post is to showcase how easy it is to build a powerful witness script on top of steemtools, as well as how to enable automatic pegging.
I hope it will be a useful resource to witnesses.
Showcases are certainly fine, but people who are not programmers are going to download your script and use it. Applying a default configuration that it configured in a manner that is contrary to the design of the system is irresponsible.
If top witnesses were so incompetent they couldn't change a setting from True to False based on their preferences, then the system IS broken.
The script can't be run without adding a mechanism for wif, which was intentionally left out for simplicity sake. The settings list is right there, and it has 3 settings.
I mostly wasn't referring to top witnesses, but to the many backups with varying technical skills (the system, by design, allows literally anyone to become a witness even via self voting). Their feed votes still count, albeit to a much lesser extent. It is a reasonable point that the script won't run at all without editing. I wasn't aware of that and negates my criticism to a large extent.