Witness Updated to v0.20.5, and Witness Votes Changed

When I got back from vacation, I noticed there had been 3 more releases of Steem in the past 6 days I was away. I got back too late to do the update on Saturday. On Sunday, I updated my witness server to from v0.20.2 to v0.20.5. It went very well. To me, it seems things are quicker since the v0.19.10 release with RocksDB.

Pay-it-forward Delegations

To help various communities or users on the blockchain, I had delegated 33,000 SP while I went on vacation for 6 days. This is one way I help out some people on the blockchain as a witness. When I returned, I kept some delegation active at a lower SP amount, as I have had active for about 6 months now. I had increased some delegations from 500 SP, to 5000-6000 SP, and then back down to 500 SP when I returned. This seems to have messed up people's voting abilities with the newly flawed Resource Credit system though.

Lack of Top 20 Witness Testing of HF20

I noticed while I was gone that the new Resource Credit system had brought activity on the blockchain to a halt. I myself had about 500 SP left after delegation 30,000 SP to others, yet I couldn't post or even Power Up.

I find this is unfortunate and should have been avoided by the top 20 witnesses testing things better, given the resources (Steem Power) they are paid each month to have this responsibility. This is the first hardfork in over a year, and it has had many issues since it was slated for implementation. Hopefully a lesson was learned and they can do better next time.

Resource Credit and Delegations

The Resource Credit system also has issues with delegations, whereby someone who has a delegation removed will have their voting "manna"/power drop to 5% or so with their delegation gone, even if they were at 90% or so when they had the delegation.

This doesn't make sense. Someone should have the same voting power/"manna" no matter what delegation or SP they had from one day to the other, as it used to be. This is penalizing people for just no longer having a delegation, degrading their ability to interact on the blockchain. @tcpolymath has created a github issue about this crappy behavior.

Witness Vote Changes

A few months ago I decided to vote for witnesses below rank 60 only, in order to help them out. There are many witnesses who do good work for the chain, but they have so much support, while others could use more support as they don't get much. Some witnesses have stopped their servers, or have risen in the witness list. So I changed my votes to remove dead witnesses and those who have climbed above position 60.

If you look at my SteemD.com, SteemDB.com or SteemWorld.org data, you will see who I removed and added votes for.

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