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Well, the same as everything else, humanity. :D

lol

I don't know enough about the voting system to feel that my opinion really matters here, but how you write it down here, it sounds as if that could work. But then again, I don't know enough about the whole system. It took me quite some time before I even cast a vote on my main account, let alone my alts. I never really thought my vote mattered. Now I see, community coming together and every vote counts. 

Curious to see what others think about this though, so gonna follow this one ;)

de-centralized tribalism and governance has always sounded funny, downvotes i dont think is ever the solution

i think maybe expiration dates ... obama can not claim the presidency cus he had more votes than trump now sometime x years in the past (from stale accounts or gods know how many they claimed for themselves)

why does everyone consider the elder protectorate to be little elliott nesses

expiration, keeps them on their toes, prevents dead accounts from counting (in-active members) and ... the statistics guys can have a field-day figuring out who is working that election-fraud mojo with owned/proxied-owned and fake-owned claimed or bought accounts

what's not to like ?

k, the consultancy fee is 1.000.000 steem

thanks

(keeps them on their toes too, no slacking once you're in the white house as the clock keeps ticking, HEY, like a witness once said "now you have to get off your ass and do something)

(haha LOLMAO ... its been most entertaining so far)

the current witnesss voting system is swiss cheese, i have been shouting that for quite some time but im not incrowd (and i actually dont wanna be)

Cool, I have quite a similar view: https://steempeak.com/palnet/@hotbit/steem-blockchain-multivote-security-vulnerability

I'm not sure about the downvotes, though.

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I like this system allot....

I also think it makes the witness voting system more fair and not easily munipulated thus giving a much more fair shake to those wanting to  become a top witness.

I like the idea of downvotes for witnesses and reducing the number of witness votes sounds like a good idea too.

The weighting thing will do my head in unless it's resolved at an interface level with sliders or something, otherwise I'm just going to cry at it XD 

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Definitely less votes. I think 7, as even very hostile, 14 doesn't reach consensus. Lower votes also means that reaching consensus is harder however, the consensus reached might be better.

As for downvotes. I am not sure if it changes much, as the up votes can be moved quickly onto other witnesses anyway. I will have to think more on it.

In general, it should be made as simple and clear as possible, and having less votes helps that a lot. 30 is far too many as it is impossible to know what 30 of them stand for at any given time.  

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Interesting idea, but makes the system more complicated, and can also be misused by (mutually) downvoting the other party. I think simply reducing the Witness votes to 3-10 would be an interesting approach worth trying out.