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RE: Where Did All My Followers Go?
True, I wouldn't mind inactive followers dropped from my account. More importantly is inactive witnesses with thousands of witness votes. Right now there are witnesses with 10-15,000 withness votes on the top 100 witnesses who have been inactive since Feb, 2018. Why are people still giving them their votes when they have left the platform? Those people could give their votes to active witnesses instead.
People aren't still giving them their votes to inactive witnesses. The votes don't time out or decay, they last forever! They gave them their vote once because they read a good post from then once upon-a-time-ago with a "vote for me" link at the bottom and haven't thought about it since (in many cases because the voter themselves are now also now inactive).
At the moment Steemit.com site seems normal. I don't normally interface with STEEM their but it still looks the same to me with the tags on the left (I don't look at them normally as they never seem to change and impart no useful "trending" information).
I still have my 301 followers and my 58 or so follows. I'd assume it's just a glitch related to adjusting the API back-end. I had notice the screwy account valuations previously. I figure that had something to do with a "glitch" in the 3rd party API they use to get that info. It is probably unrelated to these, more internal, issues.
Yes, I understand that. I just think for those who did give them a vote and are still active here, they should reevaluate which witnesses they have upvoted to see if they still are active and contributing and if not, redistribute their votes to active witnesses.
I might be a guilty one when it comes to giving out Witness votes carelessly. But this was back when I first joined in Jan 2018, I saw that I had 30 votes available, so I dished out 20 on the spot and gave most to the top 50. I read one witness blog and since it was long and exhausting I didn't bother with the others lol... Now, I'm too afraid to retract any of the votes in case I get downvoted (I heard its happened before). At least I'm being honest about this. Maybe there are some that are in my position.
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I hadn't heard of witnesses down-voting people that retract their votes! Man.. those are exactly the kind of witnesses that need to NOT be voted for.
Yea it's a few months back now that I read about the spat between them, but they cleared the air as it was a mix up. Apparently, the retracted vote was meant for someone else after the voter didn't agree with one of the witnesses' post. I have seen a few politics and unnecessary wars on Steemit. I do have 8 spare votes or so to use, but waiting to be persuaded enough to give one of them up 😜
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I haven't heard of witnesses downvoting anyone for retracting a vote and if they did, I would have to agree with @harvhat they are not the kind of people who should be witnesses anyway.
Witnesses help the blockchain, the community, and Steem in general and do not punish people for changing their votes.
You can see on this chart some of the witnesses who are no longer active but have thousands of votes. Those votes should be redistributed by the people who gave them to them.
https://steemian.info/witnessblocks
Yea I wish I remembered who it was so that I could show the thread. Still I don't think I voted for them.
Would it be a dumb idea to have a yearly reset (elections) in order to vote for the right and dedicated witness that has proven the commitment to the blockchain? And not on those who managed to get loads of votes and then disappear? I know it might seem too official and very democratic, but it is a solution to the problem.
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Voting is everyone's responsibility and anyone can reset their witness votes any time they want. I do agree that witnesses who have abandoned the platform for more than 6-12 months should be rest. I mean they are missing in action so it makes sense.
But to have a default yearly reset would be a pain in the butt. Each Steemian should manage their votes. For example, I know who I vote for and why and if all of that was reset just because a year went by would not be cool. I'm on Steemit almost every day and monitoring what the witnesses I have voted for are up to.
But yes, inactive witnesses should be dropped because it's obvious they are no longer involved. Especially the ones in the top 100 who show up on the witness page. They're just taking up space that other active witnesses could fill.
I just got unvoted by someone who voted for me two weeks ago and when I looked on the blockchain they are spamming witnesses and asking them to upvote their witness for a witness upvote from them, like when people ask for a follow for a follow. That's something that is frowned upon on Steemit and brings no value at all to Steemit.
When someone doesn't upvote them as a witness they remove their upvote. So lame and they don't have any Steem Power anyway.
Some people just don't get it. It just hurts their reputation.
There are a lot of people new to Steemit that think having a lot of followers is the path to making money here but not if you ask people to follow you to follow them.
Still don't believe me? Then read this
Then a review of Witnesses to see if they have been active or not and to redistribute their votes back to the original owners if they haven't for more than 6 months. The BC is ever changing, so 6 months of inactivity is more than adequate. Sounds like a good plan! Hopefully it could get implemented. 😊
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