I could highlight many more points from these convos which is concerning me like you have no clear rules ,standards for running BSIP42 .
The description of BSIP 42 is also very fluffy.
About Thomas when reading your convo it seems you had no problem with him as witness for 3 full years till he was not updating BSIP42 quickly as there was no timeline and just has an experimental status and demanding some standards ?
This quickly leaded that you and bitcrab unvoted him even BSIP 42 says nothing how quickly he has to implement it.
Some sort of power play you execute what we demand quickly or else you will be voted and kicked out ?
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Where does the experiment of bitCNY ended ?
Where is the Data collected ?
Was is really a success if we didn't see now a bigger down movement ?
No info no standards no nothing just a bunch of people pushing and pushing with poor claims but without any proof at all
Thank you for those thoughts Thul3. Yes, there does seem to be a strong push for these major changes.
Abit is blowing things way out of proportion. He makes a bold claim I'm not "qualified to be a witness" and only provides subjective evidence. His "urgent" concern was my "jumping" CNY feed (and BTW he only mentioned one asset out of the 22 feeds I publish several times an hour), and completely ignores the median protection built into the core and says absolutely nothing except conjecture and speculation about the way my feed data has affected the final CNY price.
I agree with Thul3 about how this proposal has been ram rodded thru without adequate planning, and you can see how abit appointed himself dictator in control of who can take part in witness channel discussions. And no, he made no apology for his actions. He clearly has an authoritarian attitude and a bias against me, probably b/c I am not a conformist that withholds my thoughts and I oppose power hungry people who make unilateral decisions, and fail to consider the impact on the community changes like bsip42 can have. If abit put the concern for the ecosystem as a whole first (and not just the portion that trades the CNY asset), he would have thought about and provided some guidelines for how bsip42 could be conducted, and what metrics could be used to measure algorithm performance. Instead he puts himself "in charge" of experimentation and complains when someone's CNY feed doesn't look good to him.
He complains against me for being too verbose, makes a major issue out of going off topic at times (that makes me different from others how?) and then complains about my not upgrading according to
his timetable. He uses no standards (inconsistently uses letters and numbers when referring to patches, uses a confusing statement about which version the patch is to be applied to - a previous patch or a release?)
Although I missed doing a witness report for August, that is very rare for me. Most witnesses don't even write witness reports at all. Every attempt I've made over the last 4 years to suggest better standards for witnesses has been met with deaf ears and apathy. A few listen and contribute, for example roelandp who created a marvelous tool to monitor price feeds. That is A standard suitable for all witnesses, but abit wasn't even aware of it.
Abit's claim that I'm not "qualified" to be a witness is a baseless accusation for which he has provided practically no justification. Besides, the claim is ridiculous on its face given the issue took place during a period of experimentation that had no firm guidelines and no standard metrics to measure compliance against or no timeframe to complete the implementation.
Another reason the claim is hollow is because there are no minimum requirements (i.e. qualifications) for witness duties. Feeds - accuracy, for which assets, update frequency, etc. and feeds are merely 1 aspect of a witness' duties. Don't let Abit or anyone else lead you away from expressing yourself, and don't let them repress your curiosity and questions.
Abit is on a witch hunt and has a personal agenda to get me voted out without sufficient cause and without making a solid case. It's plain to see from what Abit himself posted here how his anger flares up when people like me are bold enough to ask questions rather than simply conform to his terse edicts.