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RE: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded?
I just hope this isn't some kind of attack on certain accounts on purpose. I don't know anything more about the problem, or about Steemit's innards, to say for certain it isn't.
That worries me. But... so does growing old, although I'm told it's preferable to the alternative.
So far, that seems to be rare, but it could quickly spiral out of control if the community doesn't make a point of voting only for the deserving.
Well, that's the heart of the issue regarding voting. Witness votes are weighted by SP, just like curation. Basically, if you bought enough Steem you could completely replace the witnesses.
@aggroed recently estimated that @freedom's vote was 30% of @pumpkin's witness vote, alone. That's not a controlling interest in even one of ~50 witnesses, but it does show the mechanism at work.
The community is really the bulk of the SP. So, money talks... and there are those that think the money is self voting, whether deserving or not. I still have no idea how one could somehow attack another account's ability to transact on the blockchain. I thought that was controlled by algorithms, and only a witness could affect that.
Now, a witness that cryptically impacted unrelated targets for brief periods of time might be able to impact the community both substantially, and without being detected, I suppose. I'm not a coder, so can really only guess.