Achievement 6 Task by @xkool24: Understanding Curation and Community||100% Power-Up

Hi Steemians,

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I will want to say a very big thanks to @cryptokannon for the post on Achievement-6 task. It has really given me a detailed breakdown on how voting and curation works as it affects the reward system.

I was able to know the vital roles of witnesses, how to delegate my SP using the steemworld, and how to recall back the delegated SP at the due time. It most interesting fact is that, I can actually earn without being active and write contents. The curation mechanism handles all this.

How voting and curation work in steemit
Just like the way we like posts on the conventional social media, this is also applicable in the steemit company but in this case it is seen as "Voting". This is avenue for quality contents.to be appreciated, hence giving value to the author.

(The image shows that this content has been voted)

Immediately, I voted on a post just like the above message displays, I start to distribute rewards from the reward pool to the author who's post was voted. Least we forget, distribution of rewards is determined by the amount of SP one possess at that moment.

Moreso, another important thing we need to know during voting is that it is influenced by the voting Mana. All voting Mana are initially set at 100% and each time we vote, 2% is deducted from the voting Mana when set at 100%. It also recharges by 20% everyday. The voting mana also determines the amount of influence you have on the reward distribution

For a new user with less than 500SP, can only vote at 100% voting strength unlike those with more than 500SP who can adjust their voting strength. This adjustable strength can be placed from 1-100%. There is also the mana for downvotes which is 25% of the upvote mana. We are also meant to understand that downvotes do not earn any curation rewards.

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

Firstly, Voting Mana can be checked via my steemworld to really know if I'm adding value to the author or wasting my resource credits. For allocation of the rewards, it is such that 50% goes to the author (post/comment) and 50% goes to the curator but let's bear in mind that the time of an upvote determines the weight of rewards too. Immediately a post is dropped, 100% of the curation rewards remains within the pool. But when a curator votes at the moment of posting which is less than 5minutes of posting, there are graduations to what is rewarded and what goes into the pool . And as time progresses and if more than 5minutes of posting, 100% of the curation rewards goes to the curator of the post.

Who will you vote for Steem Witness ? and Why?

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Who's a steemit witness?
Witnesses are blockchain representative elected by the community to produce blocks for the steem blockchain. They are saddled with the responsibility of running the steem blockchain and prevent attacks from hackers.
Each user may vote for up to 30 witnesses in the blockchain.

Moreso, my choice of preferred steem witness is basically their impact in the blockchain and creativity which entails going extra miles to better the community. I would vote for @justyy and @steemchiller who have created steemyy.com and SteemWorld.org respectively.

Which community will you join in Steemit, and why?

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I have already chosen and joined some of the many communities in the blockchain. There are also other good ones but still limited in my association. My key reasons are:

SteemAlive: This is a community for all Nigerians and few other interested African countries. This is community that doesn't know color, It brings us together irrespective of tribe or religion.

Fur Friends: A community that entails to educate and keep a gallery of all pets posted in its platform. I'm interested to know more about pets.

"Project Hope* : I would like to know more about the crypto world, entrepreneurship and economy.

SteemingCurators: I want to be continually updated on ongoing or upcoming challenges.

Appics: I want to post quality pictures and also see great pictures within this community.

@cryptokannon, thank you for putting up all these achievement tasks which has intentionally gotten us aware of things we needed to know.