I proposed a redistribution curve for witness payouts and also wrote a spec for witness vote decay months ago which @ned told me personally was a good idea, but which has never seen the light of day in terms of functionality.
The pumpkin/freedom issue is absolutely 'the turd in the punchbowl' of steem - more transparency is needed.
lol thank you for this ... i mean not thank you about the situation, but thanks for the surprising chuckle/gasp it brought forth from me :)
hehe :)
synchronistically, i just posted about this topic. i made a graphic to show witness rankings with and without pumpkin. the difference is not actually so huge in terms of the end result, except that it is obviously much easier for healthy competition to be supported without pumpkin's input!
awesome! i'll check it out...