absolutely I currently am on steemit and might join serey. I don't think using every platform out there is a problem I just personally believe it is a huge conflict of interests to be a witness on more than one simultaneously. If you left hive and decided to witness blurt tmrw thats different to simultaneously being on two and decisions possibly affecting your other platforms you witness. I think you miss understand my post on labels slightly. it's not a label to say I run a witness on hive, or I run a witness on blurt. The way at least I was describing a label is when someone uses it as a form of identity and puts themselves in a smaller box than they could be in. So if your whole identity was being a hive witness that defo could be a limitation but if you simply are running a hive witness thats just something you are doing with your time. Hope that explains what I meant a bit better.
I leave my foot in the door wherever I can to have inroads to diplomacy and technology share, doesn't mean I have to be active there but always maintaining a "personal embassy" is imo important.
I mean it’s everyoens opinion and who they vote for I’m just saying I personally wouldn’t vote for someone who’s a witness on more than one platform. You can be diplomatic with other platforms without being a witness. Like I said imo. If the majority of voters don’t mind it won’t matter. I do know others who think like me.
Help me understand how. If you are able to convince me, I'll turn off my witness node.
I don't want to convince you to turn it off, because It's not my decision, it is simply my personal preference to only vote for witnesses that are only a witness on one platform. I do believe that because they are all so interlinked and direct competition it's kind of like having the same board of directors between Pepsi and cola or Starbucks and costa. I mean I am sure it does happen but imo I don't think one can be totally none biased should a decisions come up that doing something on a platform might affect another or be in direct competition. It just doesn't make sense to me. I think it's ok being a witness who is more on the dev side who is doing the coding but doesn't actively get involved in decision making whatsoever I guess.
Gotcha! You have some misunderstandings
Let me help you clarify it.
Witnesses don’t do decisions. Witnesses are NOT board of directors. In fact, witnesses are just puppets for investors - e.g. fervi for ctime.
I hope that helps you to get clear picture.
you get to vote on important issues though no? like you all cast a vote if fervi was allowed in a private witness group and are all in a private group no?
Imagine you have a private chat group with your friends & in that I am not allowed.
There could be a private chat group run by ctime, fervi, lucylin, mmmkkkk & in that I am not allowed.
So, witness-private is just similar to that.
Okay. I agree
witness-privatename is confusing.But it is not witness private group - e.g. fervi being in top-5 witness, doesn’t mean that he become part of that chat group.
Read Witness-private as a chat group for - users/investors who are aligned, who are on same page.
The moment someone misbehaves & in not alignments with all other, he/she gets kicked out of that channel.
You can flip the whole table.
E.g. assume you invest $1,000,000 in blurt.
Now you select the witnesses to vote,
You can have your own discord server, start witness private channel there & don’t invite me or anyone else, only add those who are aligning to your thought processes.
Did it help?
He was part of that chat group but because he shared something from it he was kicked out and the top twenty witnesses got to vote if he got back in or not. Your denying to me top 20 witnesses vote on things? I mean I know two and they have anyways
Why do you want to be witness? Let’s ask that your asking for votes so why do you want to be if it means nothing to you but extra money?
I’ve accepted your belief it’s ok but you don’t seem to be able to accept my free will to not vote for anyone as witness who’s a witness in another platform lol. Are we not allowed to vote for who we like?
now supposing someones vote was influenced by something fervi did on another platform someone was witness of , it all gets messy ... to me at least. I stand by my personal decision that doesn't mean everyone else should do the same.