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RE: Broken Witness Voting System!
Yes - I 100% agree we should have a mechanism for inactive voters. I can imagine a lot of votes are being cast now of people who jumped onto Steem in 2016 but haven't even logged in for 2 years now. We could implement a trigger after a certain amount of time no activity (like a log-in, post, comment, upvote) was registered on an account - assuming that people who still log in or are in any other way active are also still agreeing with their witness votes? Anyway, I'd actually be fine with any mechanism as long as we don't assume it's fine as it is ;-)
Ohhh definitely the right attitude to have.
As for "it being possible or not", well let me just state the following facts:
Days, hours, minutes and seconds are defined in the current code.
There is a time stamp on all witness votes and all proxies. (ON ALL TRANSACTIONS IN FACT)
For those out there who don't believe me, or who would say that this isn't the case, well, take a look:
Note: screenshot originally taken from https://steemian.info/witnesses
So to state that a countdown ticker can't be added to these transactions is like saying something along the lines of "You can't put jam into a doughnut".
Really is as silly as that when anyone says "it can't be done".
NEVER, ever, underestimate the ability of humans to add shit to a donut.
We are one weird species on this fragile planet of ours, that is for sure!
Would be interesting to see 1) which witnesses 'survive' on votes cast in 2016/early 2017 and 2) which voters cast years ago and never changed votes after that :-)
PS: I've been using @arcange's version of the witness list for a few days now and I like how quick it gives me an overview on what's changing in the ranks! Especially the 'history' button and the green/red up/down numbers are very insightful: https://steem.arcange.eu/witnesses/ Cheers!
Yep, the resources for up to date information are surfacing all over the place. Guess many a Steemian is asking for more transparent information ;)
As far as the votes go, I am sure that every witness would ensure that they do not lose votes from living voters.
As for the ones that are no longer on this side of the grass, well, may they RIP.
Can't argue against mother nature!