How Curation Works On Steemit

Every one of us needs support in what ever we do and steemit is a platform not left out in this theory. Curation and voting are the terms used to describe support given to another person's post on the platform. Just like any other social media platform such as Facebook or Instagram, our comments and likes give more meaning and visibility to another post.

Voting for a post can be done by clicking through the options below the post as seen in the picture above. Voting could either be and Upvote or downvote. Voting on a post gives some reward to the author. This process of reward distribution is known as curation.

The amount of reward is determined by the steem power of the Voter's account i.e. voting mana currently possessed by the account. It is initially set at a 100% and deducts 2% when the vote is cast at full power of 100 percentage. It also recharges by 20% daily and users have to wait for it to recharge once theirs is exhausted. The voting mana also determines the amount of influence you have on the reward distribution.

In order to check your remaining voting mana, you should use third party tool like Steemscan and Steemworld. Allocation of the rewards is such that 50% of it goes to the author of either post/comment and 50% goes to the curator. Time is an important factor in this entire process to get full benefits.

Once a post is published, 100% of the curation rewards remains within the pool when the curator votes at the moment of posting. And as time progresses, this is what happens as on the table below.

This means that after the 5 minute mark, 100% of the curation rewards go to the curator of the post comment.

Witnesses of Steemit

Witnesses are elected by the community to produce blocks for the steem blockchain every 3 seconds. These witnesses are compensated by steem power as 20 of them work full time. There are extra backup witnesses and each user may vote for up to 30 witnesses. They run the steem blockchain and prevent attacks from hackers.

Personally, I would vote for @steemchiller and @justyy who have created SteemWorld.org and Steemyy.com respectively. This is because, they created these amazing tools essential for the easy use of steemit and they still produce blocks for the blockchain, consequently.

Why I chose to join some communities

In every locality there are groups of persons with different objectives. There are several communities here on steemit within which members post good content. I went through these communities and I have joined a good number of them and here is the reason why.

Steem Africa : As an African, I will like to connect with other African Stemains so as to understand and grow in the society

Steeming Curators : Taking part in challenges is very important for one's growth on steemit

World of Xpilar : Photography is one of my passions and thjs community will sure be a place for diversification.

GEMS : I want to share knowledge with people as this community welcomes general knowledge.

Project Hope : I would like to know more about cryptocurrency, entrepreneurship and economy.

Music for Steem: I am a dancer so automatically where there is sound I see myself joining.

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