Achievement 6 Task by @eosxiomara: Understanding Curation and Community.

Hello fam, I'm grateful for the help being rendered to me before reaching this stage and I'm glad to be finally here to write my 6th achievement post. I'd first of all like to thank @njaywan for introducing me to this great platform and also to @cryptokannon for the help and tutorials about how to be better on steemit.
This post of @cryptokannon gave me enough knowledge to comprehend how the rewarding on the steemit ecosystem works(i.e, curation and voting). I also gained experience or knowledge on how the vital roles of the various steemit witnesses affect the blockchain mechanism(in a good way). I also learnt through the post of @shortsegments that you can loan out or delegate steem power to any account you want temporarily, and you can also take it back anytime you want. I was glad after I read it knowing you still have total control over your SP even after giving it out.

How Curation Works on Steemit

Just like any other social media platform where you "vote" or like a post you find worthy or desirable, it is the same way with steemit, only that Steemit's votes offers good rewards; real rewards.
When you vote on any post, rewards are being distributed from the reward pool to the author of that post. The voting or rewarding process is what is termed as curating and how big or small the rewards you can give out solely depends on your current steem power; the higher or bigger the steem power, the greater the reward.

The voting mana is also gives the user the ability to cast votes and also influence the rewards you give out for a post. The voting mana is set at initial percentage of 100 and the deducts 2% when the vote is cast at the full power of 100%.
From @cryptokannon's post, I learnt that the more you use the voting mana, your voting carry less influence which is why it's necessary to allow the voting mana to recharge for a while, sometimes(recharges by 20% each day).

trying to vote with 75% on the vote slider

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There is also a voting mana for downvotes only which is 25% of the upvote mana. Downvotes do not really earn a user any curation rewards since it reduces the rewards on a post.
You can check your voting mana through these ways
https://steemscan.com/account/youraccount
https://steemdb.io/@youraccount

Also, the slide bar only appears after you gain 500 or more steem power. Newbies only vote at a 100% voting strength.

When a post is made or published, 100% of the curation rewards stay in the reward pool when the one voting votes at the moment of posting. But as time goes on, the following happens(table below)

Time	Curator Rewards	Rewards that goes to the pool
After the minute mark	20%	80%
After 2 minutes	40%	60%
After 3 minutes	60%	40%
After 4 minute	80%	20%
After 5 minutes	100%	0%

From the table, you'll understand that after 5 minutes, 100% of the curation rewards go to the curator of the post.

What are Witnesses on Steemit?

From the post of the steemit user I've already mentioned, I got to know that the steem blockchain schedules witnesses to make a new block every 3 seconds, 21 witness nodes produce 21 blocks in each 63-second round.
Witnesses are compensated or paid by steem power as 20 of them work full time. Each steemit user can vote up to 30 witnesses. The main jobs of the witnesses is to run the steem blockchain and also prevent attacks from hackers.

My votes or supports would go for @justyy and @steemchiller; creators of steemyy.com and steemworld.org respectively. They have my support because the tools they have invented are so amazing and efficient and they keep on producing blocks for the steemit blockchain.

Communities I have joined and the reasons behind it

Joining communities is a normal thing and also a necessity for every steemit user. It helps to know what is really going on in other parts of the world; places you've never been and possibly can never be there. I also helps educate you and so on.
I have joined quite a number of communities but yet to explore most of them. Below are a few I want to talk about.

• World of Football: Since I'm a big fan of soccer, it's not surprising if I join this community. It actually helps me know about football; the history and news like that. I also participate in contests which really helps my writing skills and also get me some decent rewards. It was created by @njaywan.

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• Heartchurch: This is the first blockchain church on steemit. It helps me to understand life better. It also gives me a chance to share messages of hope and inspiration unto others. Admin is @darlenys01

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• SteemitCryptoAcademy: This is the community which basically educates on cryptocurrencies. There are numerous professors who lecture and also give tasks to students to work on. It helps people to gain nice rewards too. Since I don't really know much about cryptocurrencies, it is a privilege for me to join and educate myself.

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• Health Republic: This community educates on how to better your health. It also gives users the chance to talk about recipes they know for the numerous health issues in the world.

Thanks for your attention @cryptokannon and @yohan2on