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Hi friends and fellow steemians, I am very excited to proceed to the next achievement posts and am grateful to the source of my strength and to @xcool24 and @hisgeneral for their tutorials and mentorship. It wouldn't have been simple if not for them.

I have successfully xompeted my achievement 5 and they are all duly verified hence, am engaging achievement 6 task.
Happy Reading!!!

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Introduction

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Achievement 6 task concentrates majorly on community and curation, aimed at get users and account holders oriented on how to utilize specific third-party applications, educating on the process of creating a community or joining an already existing one. Furthermore, it provides clues and the awareness of how curation and witness words and how to vote for witness.

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Question 1: Do you understand how voting and curation work in steemit?

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Voting
When a post is made, two buttons (green and red) are seen below the post. While the green button is for upvote, the red is for downvote. With these buttons, voting can be done.

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Upvotes

Upvote refers to the means through which rewards are disseminated. This is done by a simple click on the the upvote button (green) which results in the dissemination of rewards. However, the amount rewarded to a post is subject to the post payout. The post payout is equally affected by the voting weight and steem power of the upvoters.

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Downvote

This is the opposite of the upvote and as such is the reverse of the upvote. A click on the downvote button will revert a post reward depending on the downvoter's level of influence. Therefore, downvote refers to the redistribution of reward, which implies that the initial reward given to a post will be revert to the reward pool.

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Curation

Curation is the word used to describe upvoting a post and the person who curates a or upvotes post is known as a "curator". A proportion of the total reward given to a post is shared among the curators of the post and this is referred to as "curator's reward". In the downvote scenario, no reward is given for downvoting a post. Nevertheless, to maximize curator's reward, 5 minutes, 12 hours, and 6 days the age of the post is the best time frame to upvote a post.

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Question 2: What happened if you vote a post before 5 minutes marks after posting?

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Voting a post before 5 minutes results in loss of a fraction of the the curator's reward. A curator loses 20% of his reward should he vote a post before 4 minutes, 40% before 3 minutes, and so on. To that end, the best time to vote a post remains 5 minutes, 12 hours, and 6 days.

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Who will you vote for Steem Witness ? and Why?

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Steemworld.org remains a user-friendly highly impressive and esteemed blockchain tool which is a display of an outstanding mental apprehension and remarkable skill by @steemchiller hence, I will vote him.

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Which community will you join in Steemit, and why?

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Financial security will be choice of a community because it has proved to one of the best communities on the steemit platform where extremely didactic, informative financial issues are discussed and members are well tutored on the safety measures to be taken on finances both on the platform and real life. The platform also provides instructional platform for educating members on how to cautiously manage their finances so as to avoid outrageous expenses, protect finaces against theft and deter finance depletion.

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I want to thank @sapwood for his detailed explanations on this achievement task as well as @cryptokannon for providing guidelines for this task. I respect @xkool24 and @hisgeneral for their support. Thank you all for reading!!!

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