[tor-relays] Consensus weight dropped

[Bram de Boer]

Sebastian wrote:
> One theory might be that the addition of a new bwauth has shifted
> which vote gets picked for the consensus. It's conceivable that
> bwauths rate relays which are placed topologically close higher
> than others.

Thank you for your suggestion. I hope that is not the case and the drop in
consensus weight is just a temporary glitch. I will post to the
development mailing list to see if the techies can comment on this.

Paying hundreds of dollars of my hard earned money for a relay that is not
being used by the network is not something I will keep doing for long. I
support the goals and ideology of Tor, but the project will lose me as a
volunteer if consensus weight does not restore soon.

Thanks,
Bram


> Hey there,
>
> On 19 Jan 2015, at 10:03, eric gisse <jowr.pi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is roughly consistent with what I've been seeing on my own node.
>>
>> Weird.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Bram de Boer
>> <list-tor-relays at nosur.com> wrote:
>>> Update: generation of the http://nosur.com/consensus.txt list has
>>> completed now, and contains 3683 relays that exist half a year or more.
>>> Again the relays at the top of the list show the sharp drop in
>>> consensus
>>> weight end of december and a short spike around January 6th.
>
> figuring out what happened will likely involve looking at the directory
> authority votes to see if anything specific happened. One theory might
> be that the addition of a new bwauth has shifted which vote gets picked
> for the consensus. It's conceivable that bwauths rate relays which are
> placed topologically close higher than others. I'm looking forward to
> any analysis someone might do on this.
>
> Cheers
> Sebastian
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