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VOTING AND CURATION

Voting and curation are some of the important things on the steemit blockchain. A post needs to be voted on (by a person who is called the curator and the act of casting that vote is what is termed as curation) so that the author of that post or comment will gain some amount of steempower or SBD from it.

The more a post or comment is voted on, the more the earnings the author will gain.

Every curator has a voting Mana which is like the strength or life bar indicator in video games.This voting Mana recharges or increases by 20% every day.

There is no limitation on the number of times you can vote so far as your voting Mana has not been depleted completely. The more a curator votes with 100% upvotes, the more worthless his or her votes becomes.

WHAT HAPPENED IF YOU VOTES A POST BEFORE THE 5 MINUTES MARKS AFTER POSTING

Curators are also rewarded for each vote they cast. Their rewards varies with the time they have voted on that post after it was posted and also the amount of vote casted by the curator.

Below is a table to show the percentage a curator will receive on the payout day of that post or comment after voting on a post or comment within of after the 5 minutes mark period of posting and the percentage that will be remaining in the reward pool of that particular post it comment.

AT TIME	PERCENTAGE A CURATOR WILL RECEIVE	PERCENTAGE REMAINING IN REWARD POOL
Before 1 minute	0%	100%
1 minute	20%	80%
2 minutes	40%	60%
3 minutes	60%	40%
4 minutes	80%	20%
5 minutes (or after)	100%	0%

VOTING FOR STEEM WITNESS AND WHY

The steem blockchain uses the Delegated Proof Mechanism to select some point particular persons to be creating blocks for steem blockchain.

The persons who are responsible for creating this blocks for steem are called witnesses.With the help of steemit tools like steemdb.io, you can view a list of witnesses and a detailed information of each of these witnesses.

All witnesses on the blockchain adds value to the steem blockchain but it can be seen base on the number of votes they have that their values addition varies from each other.

It can be seen with the help of steemdb.io that @steemchiller is leading in terms of votes in the witness list which means that he is the most value adder followed by @steem-agora, followed by and @justyy so on.

I will cast my votes on these people who are on top if the witness list because of their continuous effort in adding value to the steemit block chain.

THE COMMUNITY I WILL VOTE FOR AND WHY

There are so many communities on the steemit platform and each of these communities has their descriptions which serves as guidelines on how activities of engagement in that community are governed.

• Newcomers community: This community is one of the communities I have joined.
  Newbies learn about the steemit ecosystem through this community.
  They learn and also send in their posts of their understandings of the various achievement tasks which will be read by a greeter from the community and verified if the post is in line with the said task.

• Crypto Academy: This community is meant basically for the learning of crypto currency. One can only join this community if he or she has completed all the achievement tasks and also has a 150 or above steempower (SP).

• Account Booster: This community was created by @seo-boss and it's main aim is for its members to help boost each other's accounts in terms of Steempower, Reputation and earnings.

There are other communities you may like to join here.

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