The problem with a high number is voter apathy, so like i said, becoming a delegate should require you to submit a collateral bid, then the client is set to automatically vote for the highest 101 collateral bids unless you choose to manually vote.
Is nobody paying attention here?
r0ach makes one of the best suggestions/proposals I have heard lately!
We should evaluate them seriously.
PS I agree with the PR nightmare known as 17 delegates
PS2 PR was never his "big thing"
Not a bad idea... but it is effectively buying your way into power which is less accountable and has different risks.
is voter apathy really going to be a problem in these early days? I'm not so sure... I believe that, at this point, most people who own bitshares do so because they are actively following the project and know about 2.0. the problem with voting in 1.0 was that the software ran poorly, and voting was a pain in the ass. If voting is built into the GUI in an intuitive, easy way in 2.0, then everyone following this project is going to vote.
If that is the case, then this discussion doesn't actually matter so much, because no matter what the initial number of delegates, the community can change it as soon as the software is released.
On another note, I don't really like the idea of people being able to buy their way into delegate spots though collateral bids. how would that even work?