RE: User-friendly witness information to encourage communication
Hello, @blockchainstudio. Thank you for sharing your ideas via Utopian.
Witnesses are crucial on the Steem blockchain. Communication is very important in Steem and more generally in any DPoS system.
Of course. Users need to know who they vote for, and why they should keep their vote with that specific witness. Lack of information could result in voting on inactive user simply because they appear as the top 50 or 20 which is totally unfair.
Let's go to the review;
Unfortunately, this is a duplicate idea. You can find similar discussion here, here and here.
I would recommend you to check similar ideas on the project issue tracker first before opening a new issue. Another thing I would like to let you know is that it would be much better to not scrutinize any user when submitting a proposal. Thanks
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Hi @knowledges, Thank you for your review and advice, especially about my mention about Ned's detailed activity. I thought the CEO is special, so it's allowed to discuss his activities more deeply, but you're right. It need not be in the utopian proposal. I'll keep that in mind. I already removed the mention about Ned's recent activities. Thanks!
But regarding the duplicate you pointed out, I checked your links for duplicates and actually only https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@ebargains/proposal-to-increase-witness-voting-participation-on-steem (9 months old) is related. The other two are about "fairness", i.e., including "all" witness list for fair visibility. Especially, what you said in
made me think you may have misunderstood my intention in the proposal.
Even the post above isn't entire duplicate. there are new ideas in my proposal and the gist of it is its simple implementability.
First of all, "tooltip" is an entirely new idea that hasn't been mentioned. (correct me if I'm wrong) One might think it's a trivial suggestion, I saw many users actually complain that terms are unnecessarily too technical. I'm pretty sure that most users don't know what are Bias, APR, Block Size, AC avail, AC budget, AC decay. Bias of what? APR of what? If there are tooltips for each column, it'd be great. If you say this is trivial then I can't say anything more :) I respect your decision in any case, but just a rejection on such a proposal may be a little unfair and discouraging to some users. I'm not expecting any huge voting, but utopian system would be much better if there is some courtesy voting for such a case instead of outright rejection (although I still believe this tiny difference is actually important, but everybody has a different opinion :)
Also, my suggestion is more about "miss" vs "miss ratio." And as I mentioned before, it's very specific and realistic modification, as shown in the mockup. The above post doesn't have any mockup, which I believe another important difference. How to fit all information into the UI? It's never a simple problem and that's why we need mockup.
ps. The motivation behind this proposal is the recent powerdown of Steem foundation and so-called HF21 "freedom". People say this and that. Some might be true some might be rumors. I think even small changes together can make a huge difference, and wrote this proposal. Thank you again for your review and advice.
I did not misunderstand your proposal. However, I do agree that the tooltip feature is a unique feature that could be implemented to explain most of the technical terms used on the witness page. With this simple feature, users would be able to understand not only the terms but also, how to differentiate active/inactive witness. This will have some impact on the user's decision when voting for a witness.
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Hi @knowledges, thank you for reviewing my proposal again :)
Thank you for your review, @knowledges! Keep up the good work!