Asher, that's an amazing piece of work! That must have been a hell of a work to dig through! I guess a lot of people were expecting large movements in the rankings when taking some kind of "activity" into account. Your work and the comments have pointed out that on one hand it's hard to find a suitable activity metric and on the other hand that it wouldn't change too much in the rankings.

These two actually draw a pretty positive result for Steem:

For the most part, the accounts holding the MVESTS voting for witnesses are active in some way.

Using 'last bandwidth update' as criteria to assess inactivity of the accounts voting for witnesses does not affect the witness standings to any meaningful extent using any of the inactivity dates assessed.

After all, the current system doesn't seem to be too broken and a vote decay doesn't magically solve everything.

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