My experience trying to influence change in the private witness chat; was an absent Megadrive and a bunch of clueless....to the point of anti-business minded low IQ people from India left in charge of way too much.
A total disaster for the longest time. Often they were so caught up with their teenage girl like emotions things would come to a complete hault over and over. After running out of patience the only thing left for me to conclude was we need a better witness list; and fortunately around that time a few good ones like @nalexadre and @agorise-witness came through. Just those two tipped the balance away from do nothing leeches to productive VIPs. The only reason I canceled my power down and am still here.