It is important that everybody votes or at least uses a proxy to vote on their behalf as the amount of users currently voting is only around 21%
I was asked by a few people details about the witness i vote for but i think there are too many details and factors to go too indepth about in one post without it being too long to be of use, so ive listed all with links and small amount of info i think is important.
A lot who i vote do the similar things with setup and activity just because i haven't list doesn't mean they dont do the same only that i felt didn't need a mention and to save space.
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| Witness Application | Runs digital marketing agency. IT and networking experience. Works against spam/plagiarism with  . Helps with Marketing  |
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| Witness Update | Team =           Run Witness and Seed nodes for DECENT,MUSE and Peerplays |
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| Witness Update steemsql | Compiles steemit Statistics. Runs public blockchain MS-SQL database Runs hit parade/new-comer hit parade showcasing posts achieving high voting payouts. Created and maintains  |
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| Witness Update steem cool steem cool mentions SteemitWorldMap steemit pics | Created many tools. Does promoting work currently helping promote steemfest |
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| Witness Node | Committed to running and updating node as needed |
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| Cervantes Witness | Group for and by Spanish speaking community with focus on producing and curating high quality content. Support contests for Spanish speaking community. Provides curation and posts list of Post votados por el equipo @cervantes: 05.10.2017, 23:29 hr / 06.10.2017, 23:29 hr Created Spam/plagiarism fighting bot  |
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| Witness Update | Created Steemiobot Twitter bot to tweet Spanish posts. Does curation and community building. |
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| Witness Update Steem Philippines Discord | Member of  community to promote and grow steemit in the Philippines.Member of redcross Philippines and organised meet up to arrange partnership to join steemit. |
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| Witness Proposal | Irish witness managing  account with  . Experienced software developer over 7 years. Plans to work on software projects for steemit. |
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| Witness Update dragosroua.com steem supply | Creator of steem.supply for how much payouts will be and at what time. Issued a token Runcoin rewarding runners with proof-of-run. |
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| Witness Update steemian.info | Creator of steemian.info a information resource site for steemit. Regularly gives tips for other witnesses. Provides tips and support to newbies in steemit.chat |
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| Witness Proposal | Curator dedicated to helping support and provide added visibility to great content. Has helped to curate over $3K worth of posts in 3 months. |
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| Witness Update | Committed to sharing profits with the community. Regularly curates undervalued content. Helps guide new users in steemit.chat Created and runs  helping support high quality German language content. |
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| Witness Update steemdata Introducing Viewly Upcoming: Hive DB | Creator of conductor witness toolkit Developer of Viewly a decentralized, creator focused video platform. Has many tools on steemdata for users and witness with plans for upgrade and more. |
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| Witness Thread Steemit:   Twitter: lukestokes Youtube: Understanding Blockchain Freedom foxy.io | Co-Founder and CTO FoxyCart Now Foxy.io. Assists in Spam/Plagiarism prevention. Creates posts and videos sharing knowledge concerning bitcoin and blockchain possibility's. Provides Exchange Transfer Report for the sake of transparency of funds on Steemit. Experienced programmer with over 20 years experience. Computer Science Engineering degree gained at Ivy League University UPENN. |
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| Witness Update: Partial RPC Node and my support to the communities moisescardona.me steem.place Discord : HispanoHablantes | Supports Hispanic community and projects. Works with  and has created discord bot for community there. Created website for following others vote > steem.place. |
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| Witness Update steemliberator witstats STEEM Block Explorer Discord : Steemdevs | Regular posts on memo spamming users. Regular posts on witnesses running outdated versions of steemd. Regular posts on STEEM SBD Bitcoin Bitcoin Cash prices. Owner Steemdevs Owner/Creator of steemliberator providing tools and witness stats. |
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| Witness Proposal | |
Witness Update Decent Witness Proposal @precise Discord: Steemit Philippines | Has recently upgraded node from 8GB to a 16GB from  using the 8GB as a backup. Pledge to contribute 25% of the net profit from witness node to the  community. Experienced in technical aspects in computing and creating chat bots. |
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| Witness Thread Witness Update | Experienced programmer working with bitshares community on various projects for over 3 years. Runs a node at 32GB RAM |
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| Witness Thread minnowbooster.net Discord : Minnowbooster | CTO of . Built current version of whaleshares.net. Runs a seed node at 32 GB RAM. Runs  always Postive ROI voting bot. Created and runs minnowbooster.net Delegation market automated through . |
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| Witness Thread Steemit :  | Creator of Minnow Accelerator Project helping top quality minnows get a boost with delegation and visibility. Performs regular curation. |
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| Witness Thread Steem Minnow Witness Project Gridcoinstats Crypto.fans | Regularly performs curation and engagement. Experienced in crytocurrencies being involved in space since 2013. Setup and runs block exploerer for Gridcoin. Started Minnow Witness project to help support new dedicated witnesses. |
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| Witness Thread Discord : Steemgigs | 0 blocks missed and regularly updates price. Works on marketing steemit for growth in developing countries. Supports community growth and provides regular curation to many authors. |
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| Witness Update Facebook: copychicken Youtube: Giannis Chatzis | Experienced Videographer Marketing witness. Recently created promo Video and photoshoot for steemit |
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| Witness Thread Discord : PAL mspwaves.com | Works Fighting Spam/Plagiarism with and  Runs Sliderfest to delegate 500sp weekly to minnows. Hosts Shane and Muxxy with gmuxx on mspwaves.com @ PAL discord |
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| Steemit.com! Post! Vote! Have fun! And Get Paid For It! Twitter: TeamSteemLive | Regularly posts guides for steemit and on cryptocurrencies. Regularly updates price feed. Provides regular curation. |
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| Witness Thread Witness Update | Recently setup back up witness node. Runs a node with 48GB RAM. Works with the Curation Digest. |
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| Updated Witness Application | Posts regularly The Reports from the Witnesses. Started to grow the [#Discussion] tag Update on the #discussion tag. Posts regularly on guides and tips for witnesses to perform witness activity's and run nodes correctly. Created section for whitepaper on voting abuse Whitepaper Discussion on Voting Abuse |
I hope this list helps and you consider some of those to vote or as proxies for if you dont have the time to check up on all of them yourself.
If anybody feels i have misappropriated my vote or have any suggestions for others who deserve to be voted i would like to hear your thoughts i the comments below.
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