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Hey everyone so having been on Steemit for about 3-4 months now I have started become a regular who is invested in the future of it. It is highly influenced and basically built entirely off the blockchain STEEM. Essentially we have vote for witnesses and they ideally represent us and help the community. I've been reading into it and doing some research. If you need to know more check my other post all about witnesses: https://steemit.com/steem/@scottcbusiness/steem-witnesses-the-political-system-of-the-steem-blockchain

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Since this is decentralized and we are all here to make some money and do what we love without being blocked by oppressive restrictions voting does matter because otherwise people with money can with ease take advantage of teh system which may already be the case. The only thing we can do is use our collaborative power to make a difference. Keep in mind, even if you don't care, others do so at least consider proxying your vote to still make a difference.

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<center><h1>Who Do You Vote For?</h1></center>
I'd like to see the cases some people are making for who they vote for and why as I spend the next little bit looking into all of them and giving my recommendations. I don't have much inclination yet as I'm going to start reading each of the top 100 witness threads starting tomorrow, but I'd like to hear from users what they think. I will be going through any review I find and including them in my report this week that I do. This matters because we all have to have input on this or again consider proxying to people who are doing it.

The main issue is lack of communication between witnesses and Steemit for us to know who we should vote for. So this is why I'm starting to dive in and one person I'd like to highlight is @davemcroy 

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In his post 2 days ago here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@davemccoy/steemit-a-social-platform-or-a-bot-gaming-system which I resteemed he says "We at @newbieresteemday are happy to be presenting a series of witness interviews in the very near future. We have already lined up witnesses like @yabapmatt @steemcommunity @qurator and we have many more in the queue. We have a list of questions for each witness to answer, but the one I will want to ask most is this."

I am very interested to see this and will follow it in the future. This is the kind of thing we need for awareness and having a strong and open communication between the witnesses and the people they represent.

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<center><h1>Why Proxies Matter</h1></center>
The simple answer is some people don't care about the politics or voting of witnesses. That makes sense as some people are here just to browse, where as content creators and people more seriosuly invested in the future of the platform might have some more concern about who is calling the shots. So, it matters if you aren't voting because bots and people with a lot of money can take advantage of a lazy voting system quite easily and then ruin the platform worst case scenario. So proxying your vote to someone who is actively looking into witnesses and keeping up with it and posting about it makes a lot of sense. This way you could proxy me for example and then check in once every now and then and see the updates I share on the witnesses and if you disagree you can let me know and maybe we will come to the same conensus. I have somewhat of an influence on here now so I want to use it all to give back and contribute to the long term stability of STEEM and Steemit. So then consider myself or others who are involved in the politics to proxy your vote or to get updates on to stay informed and do your part!

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So yeah this was really short because it's not so much about the article as it is the question and the discussion I want to see in the comments to get a good feel for how people feel about the witnesses and why. Please share!

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Every time I post I select 1 random winner from the upvotes, resteems, and comments totaling 3 winners and give them 0.01 SBD each and announce it on the next post! I also send out 0.001 weekly to followers! I use https://snackaholic.github.io/steemfortune/en/ by @snackaholic 

The winners from the last post I made here: https://steemit.com/steem/@scottcbusiness/steem-witnesses-the-political-system-of-the-steem-blockchain
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Were: 
@machroezar
@razyy
@gktown

*Note that once I’ve posted a new post the contest is over and this could be subject to any amount of time up to but not longer than 7 days*

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<center><h1>@ScottCBusiness</h1></center>
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<h2>Proxy</h2>
Proxying your vote is pretty simple you just go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses navigate to the bottom and type in a username here: ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVfJJEc8odPX7krLSLUrpyiN8GvTXVor8uXUApWkNDVAM/image.png)

I have started to take an active interest in Steem witnesses treating them as future global decentralized politics. If you don't want to learn or bother to stay up to date with it, but do not want your vote wasted then you can make me your proxy to vote on your behalf!

<h2>Delegation</h2>

📲 If you don’t always use your vote power or all your SP or just want to get upvoted regularly, you can delegate SP to me to receive upvotes on all your content
Use https://steembottracker.com/ to delegate any amount to me!
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