It's really easy for a pool operator to "decide" the vote for our minners, but it's a free market we are running, we don't and will not tell people the price to buy or sell, we like HVC technically, but you decide HVC's future wtih your vote.
Per your suggestions, I will change the default 1024 to 512 after 10 hours.
But by having a default value in the config deciding for the miners is exactly what you are doing !?
Why not have something like "-vote YOUR VOTE" instead of 512 ?
It's a "slippery slope" for sure.
In an ideal world what you just typed/suggested would be preferred and the ideal had it been done that way!!! However a few pools started with 1024 (highest vote possible) as the default vote which many people just kept so we in effect have "default/config" votes coming through which are very high by a whole lot of miners. A large portion of those mining are probably using these "defaults". To a lot of people just looking for a quick way to mine HVC they have no idea (or very little idea) how the vote really works. What we are trying to do "is counter" this "high default" vote with an equal set of "low default" votes. <--- normalize it so to speak.
BUT since there will more then likely be a problem when we reach sustain phase at current voting levels we are "trying to influence" the voting while keeping in the spirit of allowing people to make their own choice.
If it were done as you suggested from the start I would never have asked any pool to change the default as it would not have been set to begin with. But because of the way many ZIP files were downloaded and used we have a lot of high votes coming in that are essentially "pool votes" that were set at the maximum.
I hope the intention is clear.
I have volunteered to write up a sample paragraph explaining the vote which I could post to the forum for comment/review. Then any pool manager running MPOS (have email addresses) could send this to their users. This would educate the users (those that don't know how voting really works) and suggest they check/re-set their vote to what they feel is best. They could raise or lower their vote but at least it would then be THEIR vote so to speak.
Carlo
But yes in all honestly I am probably over-stepping a bit trying to get the vote down.