Witnesses
7. xn-delegate
Voting: No,
Reason: There is not topic for the witness and it links to btsgo.net which is another Chinese revamp of DEX with very broken node list.
Possible solution: Create proper topic, update your witness, explain the value you bring to the community and I would be voting for it.
10. delegate.freedom
Voting: No,
Reason: URL leads to this forum without specific topic. What, why and who is Freedom its not even easy to find out. Proper introduction and more social/report activity as a witness should encourage proxies to vote and newcomers to feel safe about who they are voting on.
11. delegate-zhaomu
Voting: Yes,
Reason: Self-explanatory from his witness topic.
13. xman
Voting: No,
Reason: Another Chinese exchange built on top with 0 volumes on their assets and activity. Why we are supporting it when they do nothing about it by themselves - i'm clueless. No topic or person to discuss with.
14. xeldal
Voting: Yes,
Reason: Has been around here since 2014 and haven't seen any issues in his work as Block Producer.
16. bhuz
Voting: No,
Reason: No topic, not even google search returned anything. I just don't have idea who is the person/Block Producer.
17. witness.yao
Voting: No,
Reason: Proper introduction in both languages, proper activity at some period, but haven't seen any activity around here for past 3 months. Vote removed, as soon as person become active again - vote will be restored.
19. delegate-1.lafona
Voting: Yes,
Reason: Lafona is here since 2017, been very good at job of Block Producer and is still active around forums/community. Should update witness to provide existing URL of submission topic (Also another block producer that deserves more than bottom of the list)
About the witnesses quoted above, I'd say you have somewhat of double standards.
All these witnesses did a good job on producing blocks because it's not hard these days.
Price feeds - I won't comment here.
But I'd say all of them aren't active.
Lafona: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=22138
Xeldal: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=448
zhaomu: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=46983
1.) No, I don't have double standards, but true that I haven't explained how I measured all of them.
a) When I said not active, I really mean not active even as a login. E.g. Lafona logged in last time on forums not long ago, and as Admin I had possibility to check. In simple words, was using bitsharestalk.org admin panel to check each of them. Where I said not active, that mean last login was 60 days ago.
b) Xeldal has been responsive in Telegram, and still is to this day.
c) Zhaomu same as Lafona had login not long ago.
Conclusion: I already said that all of this is my personal opinion, and info/facts/knowledge that I've collected myself - never said its 100% true or accurate.
2.) I agree that producing blocks is not a headache nowadays. There is always room for improvement though. Better hardware, better links, more scalability - You are the heart of the BitShares blockbrain.
3.) On price feeding I didn't had comment because I ultimately disagree with almost everyone on it. It should be given as a freedom to Block Producers and should be a must/required only all BitAssets. Without any enforced manipulation. Respectfully what blockchain/code/worker says - that's Holy Bible and nothing to be discussed.
I hope my answer did cleared some of your concerns on my opinion. I'll do more research and try to craft better slate.
Thanks and Chee®s