Some criteria I use for selecting delegates (in order of importance):
1) Has the delegate revealed their realworld identity?
Exposing your identity is the single biggest deterrent to doing anything malicious.
2) What is their history/reputation in the community and forums?
Important, ideally in conjunction with #1.
3) Are they technically competent?
The client is not yet resilient enough to be managed by non-technical delegates. Delegates should be scripting their price feed updates and missed block notification, and should be able to react swiftly to attacks on the network.
4) Are they running more than 1 delegate?
I refuse to vote more than 1 delegate per person. Furthermore, if a person has more than a couple of delegates in the top 101 I will do my best to vote them ALL out. It is harmful and should be discouraged.
5) What is their payrate and usage of funds?
Obvious, but not terribly important.
Based on these criteria I think the quality of delegates needs to improve.
I'm from delegate team of coin(delegate ID: bts.coin/e.coin/bimin.coin) in China, and here is why I think you can trust and vote for us.
Our members:
Two members for sever maintenance and technical support, shift for 24 hours, day and night:
ID: gyhy, in China. Crypto currency and Bitshares fan. Participate in the development of discuss Bitshares test work. Lives in Beijing. 10 year’s experience in Java, Linux development. Good at network layer, distributed systems, performance optimization and parallel computing. Be familiar with all kinds of open source system.
ID: sfinder, in Canada. Senior programmer, engaged in medical information system integration in USA and Canada. Early PTS miners, initiative the "Microsoft cloud server mining technology". Toronto Chinese students' Extracurricular projects voluntary counselor. Currently guiding students to set up the Bitshares interest group and delegates.
You know technicist, only thing can prove their ability is how our delegates running. You can check it here:
http://www.bitsharesblocks.com/delegates Two members for promotion and messages.
ID: game. Founder of the Binmin China (
www.bimin.cn), known as nangongyuan in China, gives long-term research and promotion of crypto currency.
ID: metalallen. One of 2 famous translators(for bitshares) in China, and the other one is Michellecat. Bitshares & DACs researcher, interpreter and writer. Here is his special column in Chinese:
http://www.bts.hk/author/metalallen One to speak, and that's me.
ID: callmeluc. Responsible for community and blog promotion. You can find me here:
http://weibo.com/1829352501/profile?topnav=1&wvr=5&user=1Our answer to your questions:
1) Has the delegate revealed their realworld identity?
Yes, almost every BTSer in China know us. But few foreigner know us because we most communicate and promote with qq and weibo.com.
2) What is their history/reputation in the community and forums?
The same as question 1. Our good reputation is only known by Chinese BTSer. And you can check it from these websites I mentioned in the member instruction.
3) Are they technically competent?
Yes. Long-term stability is the primary task, and that's why we got 2 members for sever maintenance. Lucky we have them and they did a great job.
Our server:
2Cores CPU + 4GB RAM + 60GB SSD + anti-DDoS + guaranteed 500Mbps bandwidth.
4) Are they running more than 1 delegate?
Our 5-person team, have 3 delegates(bts.coin, e.coin and bimin.coin), which I consider the best organizational structure for long-term running. We got 3 different wallets, 3 different servers and 3 different nodes for security requirement.
I think we're Qualified. If you don't think the same, please let me know.
5) What is their payrate and usage of funds?
Destroy 10% of fees.
Giving back 40% to the community for the construction and promotion of BTS/DACs. Check it here:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6963.0 And 50% for the server and operation cost.
We think delegate running should be professional and industrialized in future, instead of one-person-deal with sparetime. That's the reason for trusting this team.
If you need more information, let me know.
Thanks~