@yabapmatt , i hear voices in the wind you have the equivalent of rage-quitting or pulling-the-plug to prevent loss ... i dont know but i hear

you could switch to "ante-up"

meaning if you quit you lose the stake anyway

(if that's the bump)

its possible i misread

i just woke up :p

if so then please ignore this

having been there and back again on a quest for catfood i thought maybe i need to elaborate a bit as people tend to look at me like i'm speaking in tongues ?

there's always something, right, you dont wanna slack off, you wanna stay on top of your clients, right

it's not the first thing you developed , assuming i'm talking to the right witness here ..

See, (as i see for a bit) :

you don't wanna remove options so you don't wanna remove the option to surrender, more options is good unless it starts to clutter . What you wanna do is add the option for the winner to be magnanimous and give the card back.

Bear with me

(Don't get me wrong, i'm not applying for a place on "the team" or something corny like that, i DO think we have mutual intrest in applications that make steemit "a place to be" though, so excuse me if i leave out the sir , lol ;-)

You wanna play on the will of people to be perceived as good here. People don't have an innate will to BE good. They have an innate will to be perceived as good.
It puts you close to the center of the group which gives you more chances of survival. I don't think i need to explain that to someone who managed to get a witness position so i'll spare you the brain chemistry.

You add the ante-up (not asking about the code, if anyone asks for mine its strictly forbidden and prohibited really, no one gets it until i quit it lol) you give the option to "return" you will quite likely get an honour system where it becomes the common habit to return instead of to keep , which will apply most of the time unless your speaking high-tier items (speaking in general, right ..)
People want to be seen as good and magnanimous (as i say, witnesses wont need that part explained) , you can offer the opion to be magnanimous on a win/surrender together with a whole set of titles, reputation and achievements on top while preventing rage-quitting (lets call it that) or sore losers who dont realize its still a game :)

SO, mutual self-intrest right ... ? I'm not interested in teams i just hope no one gets in the way too much when my stuff gets up and running a bit. Which is not why i suggest this , i believe in mutual self-intrest

not in mother Theresa lol

best to see the world for what it is , hey i might plagiarize this comment as a post on how to

speak to witnesses as if they're not superhuman or something ....

just a few cents on what i think i read in some post as a complaint somewhere and i have no clue why they weren't talking to you instead

food for thought, not criticism

steem has been good for my mental health lol

i need it for my epic

nah seriously okay , i dont need credit or anything , i need STEEM to be somewhere it deserves to be

think about it even in a game like dark souls that's all about do or die you get people invading waiting for duels

as a code of honour, no one enforced that

most of them do