[tor-relays] Consensus weight dropped

[starlight.2015q1 at binnacle.cx]

At 20:54 1/31/2015 +0100, you wrote:
>Consensus weight of my relays and those of others
>is still near zero, and not improving. . .

I read the earlier discussion around this
issue with interest.  Have no specific
ideas about resolving the problem, but
I can recommend pulling the raw text
data files for the authority votes,
grep'ping your nodes, and looking at
the specific BWauth votes over time.

The data is found here

https://collector.torproject.org/archive/relay-descriptors/votes/

and while the files are a bit huge,
are easy to whack at with *nix
command line tools such as
egrep/awk/sed/perl etc.  In a
pinch one might apply Excel to the
problem, but first trim the data
set down to size with a grep or your
desktop and Excel will choke and
die.

I did this at the point where the
bandwidth for election to guard
status was increased greatly and
my node was shipped off to middle-
relay mediocrity.  Could see
clearly how it all transpired, but
of course I could do nothing about
it short of spending more $$ on
bandwidth.

With the raw data in hand, it will
be easier to campaign the operators
of the troublesome BWauths to correct
the problem.