@wakeupkitty, thank you for mentioning me.
Regarding the way the Italian community uses its booming votes, we create a weekly report where anyone can see how votes are allocated.

In our community, we vote for members who actively participate, even if they are not Italian or are involved in other communities.
Our goal is to support users who contribute significantly to our community and to the Steemit platform as a whole.

We believe in transparency and fairness in the distribution of booming votes.
For this reason, we limit ourselves to one vote per moderator per week, ensuring that the remaining votes are distributed to community members based on their continued engagement, high quality posts and meaningful contributions.

If you also look at our competitions, you can see that our aim is to redistribute steems to those who participate, and you do not have to be a member of our community, because all Steemit users are welcome, as long as they are honest and do not post spam or plagiarism.