6th report on my Witness list Audit.
This is one of the most important tasks we, as a good steemians, should do in a periodical manner.
In my case, I will try to do this process monthly.

For your information:

Witnesses are the block producers on the Steem blockchain and their role is beyond important. These are the people that literally write the blocks and keep the blockchain itself online.

Steem operates on Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) in which all users vote to determine these witnesses, much like an election. The distinction here is that this election happens moment to moment and your votes never expire.
(Source)

Each account can vote for up to 30 witnesses, so, as you can understand, in a certain manner, it is our duty as well as our right as steemians to vote for witnesses which have contrasted solvency working as so, if we want to ensure the good stability and performance of the STEEM Blockchain.

I am still searching good witnesses to give my vote for. Currently, my Witness Votes have gone to only 25 witnesses.
The last witnesses for which I have voted for since last "Audit" are:

@roelandp and @swisswitness (@felander explained me how @swisswitness failed during some upgrades of the Steem Blockchain and I decided to give my vote to them again).

These accounts have demonstrated, at least for me, their solvency and their commitment with STEEM and the community.

But my intention is to take my responsibility as steemian to "audit" my witness list and to try to find or maintain good witnesses and, of course, discard those that I think are doing wrongly, bad or with low performance or community commitment.

HOW?

Very easy, I am using this app. http://duplibot.com/deadwitnesses/ created by @deadwitnesses , you can check this post with the explanation on which information you can get there.

My "Acceptance" criteria will be:

• How many days have past since this witness last wrote a block to the blockchain (PERFORMANCE)
• Did the witness write a Post within a week?
• Did the witness vote a Post within a week?
• Is the signing key of the witness active? (If it is not, it means that this witness cannot produce any block)

Nr	Witness	Last Block (days ago)	Last Post within a week	Last Vote within a week	Signing Key
1	@abit	0	NO	YES	Active
2	@arcange	0	YES	YES	Active
3	@blocktrades	0	YES	YES	Active
4	@cervantes	0	YES	YES	Active
5	@curie	0	YES	YES	Active
6	@demotruk	0	YES	YES	Active
7	@dragosroua	0	YES	YES	Active
8	@drakos	0	YES	YES	Active
9	@emrebeyler	0	YES	YES	Active
10	@fulltimegeek	0	YES	YES	Active
11	@fyrst-witness	0	YES	YES	Active
12	@good-karma	0	NO	YES	Active
13	@gtg	0	YES	YES	Active
14	@holger80	0	YES	YES	Active
15	@intelliwitness	37	NO	YES	Inactive
16	@jesta	0	YES	YES	Active
17	@klye	0	YES	YES	Active
18	@mahdiyari	0	YES	YES	Active
19	@partiko	0	YES	YES	Active
20	@pharesim	0	YES	YES	Active
21	@quochuy	0	YES	YES	Active
22	@riverhead	0	NO	NO	Active
23	@roelandp	0	YES	YES	Active
24	@sc-steemit	6	NO	YES	Inactive
25	@steemitboard	0	YES	YES	Active
26	@swisswitness	0	YES	YES	Active
27	@themarkymark	0	YES	YES	Active
28	@therealwolf	0	YES	YES	Active
29	@utopian-io	0	YES	YES	Active
30	@yabapmatt	0	YES	YES	Active

Summary:

• Two witnesses present an "Inactive" Signing Key, @sc-steemit and @intelliwitness. In the case of @intelliwitness the situation is worst because the last block this witness has signed happens 37 days ago so, I can conclude that the activity as witness is stopped.
• 5 Witness did not post anything during the last 7 days, they are @abit , @good-karma , @intelliwitness , @riverhead and @sc-steemit .
• From those 5 witness, only @riverhead shows a complete inactivity in terms of upvoting anything in the steem blockchain, which is IMO very bad. Terribly bad, this account has 886K of SP.

Watching the account at @steemworld you can see the waste of resources, having permanently a voting power of 100% and getting daily an average of 50 SP just keeping alive the witness node...

I remember when @riverhead was an active community member, long time ago. I would prefer not to remove my Witness vote on him since I think he did well in the past but, I cannot vote a witness who currently is doing nothing but wasting his Voting Power.

At least @riverhead, you should delegate your stake or join a curating trail for the sake of the steem blockchain and community.

Make use of the Available Voting Power is important for all of us...

CONCLUSION:

• I remove my vote for @intelliwitness , sorry man, I trust on you but your witness node does not work at all. Please, let me know when you will fix it.
• I REMOVE @riverhead , and I invite anyone to do so, it is really an INACTIVE MEMBER who does not make use of his unbelievable Voting Power.
• I ADD @actifit . I trust on this team and in particular with @mcfarhat .

TO DO TASKS:

• First task , I should make use of all my Witness Vote power so, I have to find good witnesses and vote for them.

• I still have 1 witness votes available.

• Second Task: Check closely @sc-steemit inactive key. If it keeps inactive I will not have more remedy than unvote it and find a better one.

What about you? Which witnesses do you recommend to vote and why?

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Steem on!

@toofasteddie