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RE: Do you trust the witnesses ?
Yea I agree with trying to explain the more technical side, its prolly not the best use of their time. I just look up the witness category often and find very little in the way of details/communication on what the overall outlook plan etc is. It is a growing and new system so I tend to be lenient but as the old saying goes with great power comes great responsibility :)
So just set it and forget it? Push changes without community buy-in? Push changes without reviewing code?
I think if a witness can't explain the technical changes in a simple and easy to understand way, then they likely don't understand it themselves. I have found many times in life that if you can't explain something in a way a 5 year old can understand, then you don't truly understand that something enough yourself.
I was mostly speaking on an individual basis. But for sure they should be taking time to do so on a regular posting format specially as a whole. I often feel they can use that as an excuse because you don't need to explain how to program to explain the ramification and pitfalls.
This is why I think that the future is witness teams and organisation/corporate witnesses. That way they can divide the labour, including talking with the people. For now, witnesses are elected for different reasons - some technical and some community.