...according to my criteria, totally personal and subjective, of course, but still mine.
Finally, I managed to audit my witness list...
I recognise that I have spent quite a few time during these last three days analysing each of the witnesses which I voted on...
I used to make it faster in the past when the DUPLIBOT tool was still working... now it is a quite tedious work.
Anyway, the following is my list of voted witnesses, sorted according to the official rank of witnesses:
| Witness Official Rank | Witness Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | @roelandp |
| 2 | @yabapmatt |
| 4 | @gtg |
| 5 | @good-karma |
| 6 | @themarkymark |
| 8 | @aggroed |
| 12 | @therealwolf |
| 16 | @curie |
| 19 | @cervantes |
| 20 | @drakos |
| 22 | @steempress |
| 23 | @lukestokes.mhth |
| 24 | @emrebeyler |
| 25 | @pharesim |
| 26 | @actifit |
| 28 | @steempeak |
| 30 | @abit |
| 35 | @busy.witness |
| 36 | @arcange |
| 39 | @blockbrothers |
| 42 | @holger80 |
| 47 | @neoxian |
| 51 | @coingecko |
| 53 | @fyrst-witness |
| 55 | @dragosroua |
| 59 | @mahdiyari |
| 67 | @steemitboard |
| 68 | @quochuy |
| 73 | @klye |
| 81 | @cryptopassion |
In order to evaluate the "performance" of my selected witnesses, I check the following aspects in every one of them:
- How many days have past since this witness last wrote a block to the blockchain?
- Did the witness write a Post within a week?
- Did the witness write a comment within a week?
- Did the witness vote a Post within a week?
- Is the signing key of the witness active? (If it is not, it means that this witness cannot produce any block)
- Is the witness in Powering Down mode?
- Is the witness using his SP conveniently (according to my criteria, of course)?
Then, I compiled a table with all the gathered data:
And after, I evaluate and score each one of the analysed properties for every witness:
As a result, I get my own witness rank, MY RANK:
As a consequence, I can say that, 8 witnesses of my list have reached the top score:
@themarkymark
@therealwolf
@arcange
@neoxian
@coingecko
@steemitboard
@quochuy
@cryptopassion
From these 8 accounts only 2 are within the "Official" TOP20
On the contrary, according to my criteria, witnesses as @fyrst-witness ,@blockbrothers , @lukestokes.mhth and @busy.witness, all of them at the bottom of the list, do not reach the minimum score in order to me to consider keeping the vote on them.
These accounts get the worst score due to various reasons but mainly because their lack of use of their Voting Power in the Steem Community... Additionally, the continuous Power Down combined with null engagement provide me with enough data to take the decision of removing them. Neither of these 4 accounts are within the "OFFICIAL" TOP 20 but very close.
So now I have 4 free Witness slots!
Which witnesses do you recommend to vote and why?
*Reminder: if you feel like not having time to do a proper analysis and still think that mine is fair , you can also choose me as your proxy that will vote for witnesses for you.
Just, keep using your witness votes doing an important work.
