How many dead witness accounts are there?
Dead witness account with votes shows that there are "dead" voters out there. Some of those votes were placed years ago and were never changed. The question is how many of those same votes are given to consensus witnesses.
We need to have some type of time decay on witness voting. One can update as often as he or she likes but after, say a year, the entire vote is worthless unless renewed.
Time decay as been discussed and I think we have enough support to push that change in. I do believe we need some kind of decay, inactive voters can hurt the network down the road.
Yes there are not only dead witnesses, but dead voters, and those are things that the vote decay does take into account, one of the ideas for correction I can get behind.
Completely agree. Either it is one year or a few months there should be a time decay and for active users a notification should be issued before a week or two to update their vote before it decays. This will not only help to remove inactive users and witnesses but also help new witnesses joining in and doing great work but are not highlighted at the top.