Hi guys you all know tennis and the ATP ranking, but do you actually know how this ATP ranking works?
In simple words, You have to defend the points you earned in the year before. For example, if you win Roland Garros this year you get 2000 points. The next year you have to win it again to not loose points. Or play other tournaments to gain new points. And this keeps continuing.
Steemit is the most wonderful platform I have ever seen and since some weeks I also started as a witness.
But what wonders me most is that the Steemit witness system is not developed to the right maturity.
Some remarks:
- Votes for inactive witnesses are not removed after a certain amount of time.
- given votes keeps always active
The Steemit Witness defend system
As I analysed all top 50 witnesses I think the system can have a make over. It could be very simple. A witness vote keeps only active for 52 weeks.
After 52 weeks the vote is removed and the voter can vote for you again or another.
Some examples
example 1
Most witness in the top 5 have a vote from 
This means I need 7000 people voting for me to have the same amount!!! This is impossible
The Number 1 Witness has now 3500 votes in total.
example 2
The number 1 witness has 67000 MV in total.
The number 80 ( myself) has 1600 MV in total.
What if: After 1 year the vote from
He will go down to around # 16.
What if: After 1 year the vote from
will go from #80 to number #47.
example 3
Get rid of votes of inactive users
A lot of users are not active anymore on the platform but they still have a large investment in Steem. They have given Witness votes one year ago and are not here anymore.
With the rolling defend system you get rid of those votes automatically and active users decide the witnesses.
You see that user cyrano.witness still has a lot of votes while he is not an active witness anymore.
Conclusion
The witness rolling defend system will have a much more dynamic system and a better opportunity for runner ups to get a better position.
Inform users about Witness votes
Since a couple of days I active start monitoring and informing people about their votes. Yes I do this because I hope that they vote for me.
Is that a crime?
I hope not because I hope that I showed you today that some rework needs to be done on the witness voting system.
Thank you for reading and vote for
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