RE: What the fuck do witnesses do?

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This is exactly the reason why I'm all the way down in the 70s rank. :D While I do understand code, I can't for the life of me get my head around C++ which hive is developed in so I certainly can't help nor validate code directly other than asking opinions of more informed people and reading changelogs and other explanation and discissions.

A lot of new people who have become witnesses generally go out of their way to ask questions and ask what's the recommended setup and tools I should use. They'll get pointed to various price feed scrips, hive witness essentials, and other documentation and usually they get up and running quickly and run mostly flawlessly.

It's unacceptable in any degree to have a witness miss blocks for an extended period of time. Disabling a witness is the EASIEST thing you can do. It can be done on peakD, ausbit's website, via CLI, via custom scripts, via witness essentials witness watcher.

I have custom node scripts I can run with will disable all the witnesses I manage if there is ever a need I also run witness watcher on an external VM as well.

It's not difficult. it take no time at all to set up.. There is absolutely no reason what so ever that leofinance could come up with to excuse them of this negligent failure.

And this isn't the FIRST time this has happened with leofinance either.

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Well I made the same mistake that these guys made... I lost somedays trying to figure out the problem and didn't deactivated the witness, I only did that after a while...lesson learned! The important is not to repeat the same mistake I guess :P

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Yeah... but no. There are a few "details" that are different between these two cases:

  • You admitted that you made a mistake.
  • You say you’ve learned your lesson.
  • I don’t recall you blaming me or other witnesses for it.
  • Nor did you complain that it’s crazy you’re not in the top 20 while missing blocks at the same time.
  • Maybe it’s hard for you to believe, but you weren’t missing blocks for that long.
  • You resumed your block production a full day quicker than they even cared to stop missing blocks.

While it's not cool to miss blocks, you are not even in top50 and nobody expects you to run full blown witness infrastructure with monitoring, backups, public seed node, etc.

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Someone told me before that mistakes are important to grow our expertise about something! We just need to accept them and use them as a growth factor!
These last events and this post, including the comments, will help also our community (voters) to learn better what they need to search in a witness. You guys on the top 20 are signing blocks every minute or less, while other witnesses like me are signing 1 or 2 blocks maximum a day. That's a big responsibility indeed and just because a person is cooler than the other it doesn't mean that he is ready to wear a hat signing this amount of blocks a day.

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