When I first joined Steemit, Hive account@clains was posting a weekly "Witnesses Exposed" report - which summarized what all the witnesses were up to. This was by far my favorite Steemit series to read as a new user. I was fascinated about what all the witnesses were up to, and it was great to be able to find all the information in one place!

Since Hive account@clains has no longer been posting these (since August), I thought it would be good to try and revive the idea. I will begin posting a weekly "Reports from the Witnesses" series. Each week, I will assemble all the witness reports that have been posted since the previous week. I will do my best to post it every Sunday.

Witnesses can continue posting their posts to the witness-category and/or witness-update tags, and I will assemble everything I find there. If I miss any reports, just let me know and I will correct it ASAP. Also, if any witnesses would prefer to just direct message me a report via Steemit.chat, I can include those as well. (This is how it looks like a lot of them were done back when the Witnessses Exposed series was done.)

Since this is the first report, I did include reports that went back further than 1 week - to try and get updates from each of the witnesses.

So without further ado, I bring you the first 'Reports from the Witnesses'!

Reports from the Witnesses 2016-11-20

1. Hive account@charlieshrem - Witness Position 2: Last Witness Post
2. Hive account@anyx - Witness Position 3: Last Witness Post
3. Hive account@jesta - Witness Position 6: Last Witness Post
4. Hive account@clayop - Witness Position 7: Last Witness Post
5. Hive account@roelandp - Witness Position 9: Last Witness Post
6. Hive account@abit - Witness Position 10: Last Witness Post
7. Hive account@smooth.witness - Witness Position 11: Last Witness Post
8. Hive account@gtg - Witness Position 14: Last Witness Post
9. Hive account@wackou - Witness Position 20: Last Witness Post
10. Hive account@joseph - Witness Position 24: Last Witness Post
11. Hive account@klye - Witness Position 26: Last Witness Post
12. Hive account@good-karma - Witness Position 28: Last Witness Post
13. Hive account@someguy123 - Witness Position 30: Last Witness Post
14. Hive account@thecryptodrive - Witness Position 31: Last Witness Post
15. Hive account@delegate.lafona - Witness Position 37: Last Witness Post
16. Hive account@busy.witness - Witness Position 42: Last Witness Post
17. Hive account@bitcoiner - Witness Position 43: Last Witness Post
18. Hive account@steem-id - Witness Position 48: Last Witness Post
19. Hive account@dragosroua - Witness Position 52: Last Witness Post
20. Hive account@bacchist - Witness Position 54: Last Witness Post
21. Hive account@theprophet0 - Witness Position 61: Last Witness Post
22. Hive account@timcliff - Witness Position 65: Last Witness Post

Some Notes:

• Many witnesses do not report every week, and prefer to only report when they have updates.
• I recommend that you include communication as one of your criteria for evaluating witnesses, but keep in mind - it is not the only criteria. There are some witnesses that prefer to work "behind the scenes", and do not do much as far as reports.
• For witnesses that are not currently posting any reports, I would encourage you to provide the community with at least some insight into what you are currently working on :)

Remember to vote for witnesses here:
https://steemit.com/~witnesses