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Good day fellow steemians. It is great to be with you once more. I have finished my achievement 5 task 4, and today, i will be doing my achievement 6.

This achievement will help me to know how curation work in steem, what witness is all about, how to vote for a witness. Through this achievement task, i will also learn how to create and join a new or existing community of my interest and finally how to use a 3rd party application like discord.

Do you understand how voting and curation work in steemit?

In a social media like Facebook, peoples post and content are voted on indicating their like likeness and appreciation for the quality of the post. In steemit, voting is also done in quality contents from users. The difference from that of facebook is that voting done in steemit comes with a reward from the person voting you. Thus the process of voting a person through giving him such rewards is referred to as curation.

However the reward gotten by the author of the content is dependent on the steem power of the voter or curator. The more steem power a person have the greater his reward pool will be.

The quality of our votings and rewards is largely dependent on our voting mana. The voting mana can be likened to the battery on your phone that reduces as you consistently use it. Thus at the start your voting mana will be 100%, every time you vote, 2% energy is taken out from it, thus reducing. This reducing implies that the value of the rewards you are giving are also reducing. The first one voted will definitely get a higher reward than the subsequent ones. The goodnews about the voting mana is that it recharges about 20% everyday, thus we can give it time to recharge fully.

For newbies in the system that does not have upto 500sp, they still have a voting strength of 1-100%, but once my sp is 500 and above, i can set my voting strength to a percentage limit, which immediately it gets to that limit, voting can not be done again until it is fully recharged.

The reward formular when the post of an author pays out is 50-50. By this I mean 50% of the post payout goes to the author, while the other 50% goes to the curators based on their percentage reward contributions if they are many.

Downvoting is also part of the system but not something a person should waste his time on, since it does not add value to the curator downvoting. For the author he is downvoting, if the upvotes are higher than the downvotes he will still gain some reward, unless otherwise.

What happened if you vote a post before 5 minutes marks after posting?

It is always best for the curator to vote on any post after 5mins so that he can gain 100 curators reward. This can be illustrated in the table below.

Time of votes	curator reward	reward pool
1m after posting	20	80
2m after posting	40	60
3m after posting	60	40
4m after posting	80	20
5m after posting	100	0

So to get 100% curators reward, we will vote after 5 mins the content was posted on the platform.

So the more steem power a person has, the more curator reward he can get via curation.

Steemit Witnesses - Who will you vote for Steem Witness ? and Why

The steem blockchain requires blocks to be produced and then a consensus reached by the use of delegated proof of stake(DPOS). It is the witnesses that produces these blocks using the DPOS system. A block is produced every 63-second round. The selection of the witnesses is purely a democratic processes. Users vote for the witnesses, and the witness with the higher vote is elected to be among the 21 witnesess to act as block creators and governance body. They are rewarded with steem power for each block they create.
You can vote for witnesses using your steem power for as much as 30 persons. This number creates backup for any of the witnesses who is not available or fails to meetup to expectation.

I will vote for @justyy because he is my recovery account in steemit. He is also instrumental in the development of various tools that has made steemit easy to use and have a friendly interface. Tools like steemyy.com, steemworld.org, etc. He has really shown his capability overtime in this steemit platform and community.

Which community will you join in Steemit, and why?

I have already joined several communities and I will state them, giving some reasons while I joined them.

1. Newcomers- This community has helped me to known more about this platform. Infact, if you want to know what this platform is all about, join Newcomers Community. The rules guiding this platform will be found here assiting newbies thereoff.
2. Steemfood- I joined steemfoods because I enjoy cooking as pastime. My children loves seeing me cook for them.it is a way of learning several food recipes.
3. Cryptoacademy - This community has taught me a lot about blockchain and other related topics which I am so grateful for. It has made me to have more indepth knowledge about crytocurrencies.
4. Healthrepublic- I love reading articles about health and life. This community has provided me with so much information on health related matters and healthy foods and fruits for healthy life.
5. Steemalive- This community has been a foundation for me right from the start. Its members have been very helpful and organizes trainings to help new ones understand the system better. It even assist the newones by supporting them with votes, just to motivate them until they are able to explore the steemit community on their own.

These are just some of the communities I have joined already, will still join more as the days go by, after seeing the vision and mission of the community.

Thank you so much @cryptokannon and all others who developed the tools used in these achievement tasks, providing an all rounded knowledge of the platform.