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RE: Steem Witness Scheduling Algorithm
I downvoted the post not because I disagree with the post or think it is not a quality post but because I do not think that the interests of Steem are served by every platform or devteam update or request for community feedback pulling thousands of dollars from the reward pools that go to ordinary users. The reward consensus algorithm also disproportionately rewards these posts since they are the only thing that 100% of Steem users have in common (aside from being human, etc.).
This is a reply to an old post but this is an important and prescient point. For Steemit's long term health, these types of posts shouldn't get huge votes. They uniformly go up to similar people for similar content. It's useful and important but if the rewards get siloed on these posts, it's bad for the ecosystem. Thanks.
I think you are wrong in this reasoning. Which wouldn't be a problem if in this particular case you were not wrong (according to me) in a way that is detrimental to your stated objectives ! Which is a bit of a paradox. You are not simply wrong, you are 180° wrong. You take an action that you think advances toward an objective. That action could "perfect", or "quite good" or "not that good" or "not good" ...
But here your action is "100% terrible" - it's the worst thing one could have done given your objectives (serving the interests of Steem)
Curious if you notice this comment and if you could be bothered to listen to the "why I believe that"
I notice your comment but I'm not particularly interested in rehashing an issue from two years ago, particularly given significant differences in how the platform operates now compared to then.
Thank you for your answer - do you mean that what is explained in this article is not anymore the way witnesses below 20 are selected / scheduled to produce blocks ? If that is what you mean, would you be so kind and direct me to more recent / accurate information ? I want to start a witness node and I'm therefore very interested in this topic: how often does a witness (below the first 20) get to append a block ? Has the selection algorithm changed ?
Thanks in advance!
I do not believe the witness scheduling has changed significantly. However, if the exactly algorithm is important to you the only way to be sure you are getting the precise details right is to review the current source code.
Thanks. No, knowing the exact algorithm is not a priority, we'll see by doing because we have already begun the process of setting up a witness node