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United steem community managed to hold its ground against corporate hydra. Temporarily. Now it's time to reevaluate how we elect witnesses. 

Here are a few points on how i believe we could start to improve witness election process in favor of community votes.

Current version of steem witness logic set witness weight based only on a sum of SP voted for him or her. I propose to the into account other factors to prevent malicious actors to impose their will on steemians.

Let's change the formula to the following:

#### **[WITNES WEIGHT] = [TOTAL SP VOTED] * [AGE FACTOR] * [ACTIVITY FACTOR] * [COMMUNITY FACTOR]**

Where

**AGE FACTOR.** Newly created accounts should have penalty.

Fresh account have a age factor of 0.5 for votes casted for him or her as a witness. Age factor reaches 1 in 20 weeks.

**ACTIVITY FACTOR**. Accounts engaging in posting, commenting and voting should be encouraged.

Activity factor starts with 1 and grows +0.01 for each unique week the author posts, comments and votes.

**COMMUNITY FACTOR**. Witness with large number of voters should have more weight than a candidate with the same amount of SP voted but smaller number of voters. Only accounts with SP larger than a certain treshold (a minnow) should be counted here.


Fellow steemians I do expect we as a community to learn our lessons from this struggle. We need to pay more attention to our governance mechanics since we now have a dictator on our backyard wishing to corrupt our blockchain and stole our freedom. He will not disapear in the blink of an eye and the struggle will continue.

##### We need to impose a new more effective set of rules into steemit code.

Keep steeming
Yours bro.nevik