Corrective actions in era 110

For two weeks now both of my nodes had an order of magnitude more nominations than average.

Over that period I’ve raised the commission somewhat to indicate to the nominator(s) that they should spread the nominations around, but that did not happen.

Loose validator slot management (weak competition again), inflexible nominators and delays in changes that were supposed to allow us to nominate and validate at the same time made me realize there’s no point in using Team Multiplier.

So in Era 110 (just now) I disabled nominations. This should make Team Multiplier disappear tomorrow in era 111.

Tomorrow (in era 11) I will remove my only active nominator (the whale) and reopen the node for nominations at 7% commission.

I could probably kick the 1.3 MM nominator right away, but I’ll let this go for one more era. If he monitors his nodes he should get a hint by now.

After many eras of “hinting” (with a slowly increasing commission - now still at 7%) at the inconvenience of having 1.3 MM xx nominations on my node, I’ve decided to kick the whale and did it some 15 minutes ago.

I’ve been making some 40 xx a day while running a node, while by simply nominating another node would make me 40 xx per day assuming my 32K is 15% of total after a 20% commission!

Because of this whale XXV2 dropped from many nominators to only 6 nominators. This means I’ll have 5 for election for era 111. Maybe XXV2 will get reelected, maybe not.

If I could have started nominating this node from XXV, I would have done it, but that feature has been delayed with no updates, so I’ll just cut my losses for now and nominate if I can’t get reelected.

I ended up getting a strike for this non-malicious change on XXV, and one week without Team Multiplier.

This is what made me return XXV’s commission level to 18% and deploy all 325K xx on XXV (previously I used to deploy only 150K or so).