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INTRODUCTION

I am glad that I am making my final achievement task post as a newbie today. It is obvious that after now, I have graduated from being a newbie. All thanks to @cryptokannon for putting all these achievement tasks together. So in this achievement 6 article, we had been asked to make a post with our understanding of curation and voting, witnesses and Communities. If you missed the ACHIEVEMENT 6 task announcement post, you can have it here.

CURATION AND VOTING

VOTING:

The business of Steemit is a business of Steem power. First before yoir votes starts counting, you must have at least 500SP and above. The more Steem Power a user has, themore influence the user's votes will have.
While voting, the user starts with 100% voting manner and each time a user casts a vote, he uses a small amount of his voting manner. In other words, theore a user, uses his voting manner,the less influence the votes carry.
Meanwhile, the network recharges a user's voting manner by 20% each day.
Once a user's SP gets to 500, he will always see a slider appear when he wants to vote. With the slider, he can adjust the weight of the votes from 1% to 100% as seen in my below screenshot.

Set at 100% vote weight

Set at 50% vote weight

CURATION:

In curation and rewards, the rewards are allocated 50:50. Meaning 50% of the payout goes to the author of post or comment, while 50% goes to the curator.
The split of the 50% that the curator receives during first 5 minutes is calculated linearly based on the time the vote was cast, as seen in the below table.

Curation Time	Received Curation	Reward Pool
1 munites	20%	80%
2 minutes	40%	60%
3 munites	60%	40%
4 minutes	80%	20%
5 munites & above	100%	Nill

WITNESSES:

Witnesses are people that acts as network's block producers and governance body. There are over 20 full time witnesses producing a block every 63 second round on the Steem blockchain.
My favourite witnesses are @justyy and @steemchiller. I had also voted them as seen in the below screenshot.

Screenshot from: Witnesses

COMMUNITIES:

I had also learnt and understood how to create Communities, and I had also joined several Communities as seen in my below screenshot.
Meanwhile my favourite Community is @steemalive. I had learnt a lot in a very short while because I am involved in @steemalive community. It is fast growing and has several strategies in retaining newbies.

My Community screenshots

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