Needless to say, witnesses are the most important component of Steem and Steemit, and the top 20s are responsible to be as transparent as possible. Morality is not even needed to be addressed here as it is fundamental. We all want better witnesses, and hope they will make the best decisions for Steem. The biggest challenge for the people who want to vote to the right witness is the lack of information. We all need to figure out who does what and how all by ourselves, which is quite painful, and somewhat impossible. And, there seems to be no proper tool that shows the dark side of the witnesses.

Yesterday I published the quick analysis of the voting trends between the top witnesses
(Circle Witness Voting Status of the Top 20 Witnesses). Although the posting was not read by many people, and got just a few feedbacks, I decided to go further with this project. The primary reason for building this tool is to help myself to find out the best witnesses who deserve my witness votes. However and the result is getting quite interesting as the more detail results come out.

So I have decided to make a proper tool, and share it with the community. I improved my script, and built a React based web app called "Witness Insight" which will become a major part of my bigger project "Steeme". Please visit the link below and have a look. Any feedback will be much appreciated.

URL

http://steeme.com/witness
Use desktop or desktop mode of your mobile browser.

Details about the values

• proxy: show the proxy account if set
• Witness vote: Number of casted witness votes
• voting to top 20: Number of votes cased to the other top 20 witnesses, and the percentage
• voting from top 20: Number of votes received from the other top 20 witnesses, and the percentage

These three values are calculated from the witness or the proxy if applicable.

Snapshot

The gotchas

1. The witnesses in top 20 are casting 40% ~ 60% of their witness votes to other top 20 witnesses.
2. Some witnesses are proxing their vote to the other accounts.
3. There are some cases that two witnesses are proxing their voting right to one account!
4. Some witnesses seem to have their sub witness accounts.

Try extra detective work using Steemian Health Check

http://health.steeme.com/

Future Works

• Dedicated page for each witness with more advanced analysis
• Summary of recent activities of each witness
• Voting graph
• etc..

Conclusion

I hope the witness voting between witness to become more fair and pragmatic. I have no power to directly change anything, but I believe making things as transparent will definitely bring in positive impacts. Hope to have some feedback.

Unfortunately my post is not well noticed by the people outside of KR community, so please consider resteeming it if you think this project is valuable.

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Please consider voting @asbear as an witness!

Here is more about me.
@asbear/witness-update-asbear-april-2018