I am a n00b relay (OnionTorte) operator, and, as such, know lamentably little of what I'm doing. (Yes, I'm one of *those* relay operators.) When I went to bed last night I had an HSDir flag, but it has since disappeared. And since this A.M. my consensus was halved. A bit of promiscuous pokings-about in relay metrics leads me to think that this happened in the wake of my having had to reboot my machine to unwedge it. Speed Test shows that even on the worst of BadHair Days my u/l speed doesn't sink below 15Mb/s (1900KB/s), and almost always cruises at

25Mb/s, so I don't think that it's so much a bandwidth issue as one of

perceived reliability. :(

I read https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay

but wasn't able to take away as much as I would have liked. If somebody can explain to me, using small words and interpretive dance as befits a callow contributor, what happened I should certainly appreciate it.

Thanks,

P