Hello Steemians,

Many of us don't know the value or meaning of Witness here and this way they undervalue their vote. I am not going to throw you readers in technicalities of Witness instead I will keep this post general for every reader to understand and adapt it easily. If you want a general definition, here you go, "A Steem Witness is a person who operates a witness server (which produces blocks), and publishes a price feed of STEEM/USD to the network. Witnesses' computers in the Steem network have a job that is to make 'blocks' and add them to the blockchain and also to store the complete blockchain data. These blocks contain information about posts, comments, votes and currency transfers." In short, Witness stores every activity like upvote, comment or posting and process this data into the blocks which is then chained into Steem blockchain. Steemit is like a democracy where we vote for our representatives or favorite person whom we believe that they will bring some new and better reforms to tackle the current ongoing issues.

Why you should vote?

• Think of a democracy where we elect the right person who will protect the constitution, bring justice and develop this community. So what voters do is they compare these candidates based on their previous track records and vote for the right candidate.
• If you do not vote than it is like wasting your power or chance or ignoring your basic responsibility towards democracy and society.
• Similarly, we have 30 votes per user/steemit account, you can select or choose 30 people based on their work or roadmap, by voting you are indirectly taking part in this steemit community development.
• If you are not voting then you are wasting your chance to stand and build this community together. And not voting is like a loss for all!
• One thing we voters must believe that this is a process and we are not going to see any sudden changes, so what you must do is to keep searching for the better candidates and keep faith in this democracy, without hope/faith no democracy can survive!

How to search for a right candidate/witness?

• This is one of the most important tasks where we voters behave like a judge and see which person is doing right or worth your vote.
• Searching isn't that hard but to become a good voter you must not throw your votes right away, what you must do is to look for a right witness whom you think is Mr. Perfect for the witness role.
• The very first thing you must check is the degree of interaction or activities of a witness towards this blockchain community. Many of the witnesses have the higher level of interactions whereas some have the lower degree of interaction. An interaction between witness or voter isn't a big deal, but as per my knowledge, interaction is important to create a mutual understanding.
• Roadmap or manifesto is the whitepaper of a witness towards their work and contribution to this blockchain. However, I request Devs to make a separate site or manifesto page for all the witness or node runners. A witness must update their manifesto periodically as this what we voters search.

Proxy or Manual Voting

• There is a small difference between these voting methods.
• By Opting or choosing a proxy you follow the trail of the user. For example, I have opted for few witnesses whom I believe or trust in. So what you can do is you can set me as your proxy and you will automatically vote for the witness whom I opted.
• By manual voting, you have more control over your votes and choices. But this method takes a lot more time as you have to check and search for the right candidate and then upvote him/her.
• I prefer manual voting until I complete my 30 votes as I want to search and explore the witness category before making my Top 30 list of witnesses.

Check Witness list here!

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@vishalsingh4997 votes for:

@dragosroua | Approve

@drakos | Approve

@gtg | Approve

@jatinhota | Approve

@r351574nc3 | Approve

@sircork | Approve

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If you are reading this then please upvote, here is the list where you can approve witness Link