7th 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 29 witnesses.
The last witnesses for which I have voted for since last "Audit" is @actifit

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	@actifit	0	YES	YES	Active
3	@arcange	0	YES	YES	Active
4	@blocktrades	0	YES	YES	Active
5	@cervantes	0	YES	YES	Active
6	@curie	0	YES	YES	Active
7	@demotruk	0	YES	YES	Active
8	@dragosroua	0	YES	YES	Active
9	@drakos	0	YES	YES	Active
10	@emrebeyler	0	YES	YES	Active
11	@fulltimegeek	0	YES	YES	Active
12	@fyrst-witness	0	YES	YES	Active
13	@good-karma	0	YES	YES	Active
14	@gtg	0	YES	YES	Active
15	@holger80	0	YES	YES	Active
16	@jesta	0	NO	NO	Active
17	@klye	11	YES	YES	Inactive
18	@mahdiyari	0	YES	YES	Active
19	@partiko	0	YES	YES	Active
20	@pharesim	0	NO	YES	Active
21	@quochuy	0	YES	YES	Active
22	@roelandp	0	YES	YES	Active
23	@sc-steemit	1	NO	YES	Active
24	@steemitboard	0	YES	YES	Active
25	@swisswitness (posting/voting as @felander)	0	YES	YES	Active
26	@themarkymark	0	YES	YES	Active
27	@therealwolf	0	YES	YES	Active
28	@utopian-io	0	YES	YES	Active
29	@yabapmatt	0	YES	YES	Active

Summary:

• One witness presenting an "Inactive" Signing Key, @klye , the last time he signed a block was 11 days ago.
• One Witness did not post anything during the last 7 days, and did not have used his Voting Power which is a waste of available resources, @jesta .
• Also @abit and @pharesim have been very quiet lately, without posting anything.

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

CONCLUSION:

• I beg @klye to come back to the normality, recovering his witness from inactivity as soon as possible.
• Also I will retire my vote for @jesta if he/she keeps without using his/her Voting Power on supporting the community

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 @klye inactive key and @jesta engagement. Unvote them if required and find better ones.

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

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Steem on!

@toofasteddie