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 once a week. 

## 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)](https://steemit.com/witness/@deadwitnesses/introducing-deadwitnesses-easily-see-the-activity-of-witnesses-you-vote-for)

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.

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I am still searching good witnesses to give my vote for. Currently, my Witness Votes have gone to only 22 witnesses. 
The last witnesses for which I have voted for since last "Audit" is:

@mahdiyari .

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 going to use this app. http://duplibot.com/deadwitnesses/ created by @deadwitnesses , you can check [this](https://steemit.com/witness/@deadwitnesses/introducing-deadwitnesses-easily-see-the-activity-of-witnesses-you-vote-for) 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	|@arcange	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|2	|@blocktrades	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|3	|@cervantes	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|4	|@curie	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|5	|@demotruk	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|6	|@dragosroua	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|7	|@emrebeyler	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|8	|@good-karma	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|9	|@gtg	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|10	|@holger80	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|11	|@jesta	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|12	|@klye	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|13	|@mahdiyari	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|14	|@moisesmcardona	|20	|YES	|YES	|Inactive|
|15	|@pharesim	|2	|YES	|YES	|Inactive|
|16	|@riverhead	|0	|NO	|YES	|Active|
|17	|@sc-steemit	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|18	|@swisswitness (posting/voting as @wolfje)	|4	|NO	|YES	|Inactive|
|19	|@themarkymark	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|20	|@therealwolf	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|21	|@utopian-io	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|
|22	|@yabapmatt	|0	|YES	|YES	|Active|



- As you can see, there are three witnesses showing an "Inactive" Signing Key, which is not good at all for the block production.
- In particular, there is one which his last block was signed 20 days ago, definitely I am sorry to tell that I have to remove @moisesmcardona from my witness list .
- As a minor issue, some of them seems (@riverhead and @swisswitness ) didn't post anything during the last 7 days. For me is important to be active in this field as well. Would be perfect if any of the post has an update of the Witness "work".
- I am going to observe more often to @swisswitness that seems to stop working since a few days. 
- It is very positive to see that all witness are using their voting power. By default I will remove any witness not being active in 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.
- Second Task: Check closely @swisswitness activity. If the performance of this witness keeps badly I will not have more remedy than unvote it and find a better one.

<h2>What about you? Which witnesses do you recommend to vote and why? </h2>

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Steem on!

@toofasteddie