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Proposals I suggest you look at and support
https://steemit.com/steemdao/@steemchiller/proposal-steemworld-support
https://steemit.com/steemdao/@gtg/steemdao <<< must read to learn about Steem Proposal System
https://steemit.com/sps/@anyx/proposal-funding-for-anyx-io-infrastructure-recurrent-costs
New Year and New Decade - ten days in are you feeling it yet? The Steem Blockchain continues to run smooth as silk, along with my two Witness Servers which have been processing transactions and blocks flawlessly since HF22. Both of my Witness Servers are on UK IP's - adding to the existing exciting and broad range of Witness locations around the world, holding strong at active rank 55 the rewards do not cover the server costs - but I continue to be dedicated to the Steem Blockchain and appreciate every single one of my Witness voters.
The Witness list has seen some big movement at the top as well, with big changes in Top 20 positions over the last few weeks - this is fantastic for Steem because we are seeing new voices and ideas enter the Top 20 - fresh ideas are the way forward and a constant churn on the Top 20 list will make a big difference in improving the position of the Blockchain moving forward.
And continuing on the subject of the Witness List, what really set's my 
I could just have linked https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses instead of screen grabbing the top 100, but I'm not so sure anyone would go there. And of course you don't even need a steem account to look at the Witness list - there are many external sites that show the ranking. And that is the problem, scroll down the list and look at all the disabled accounts - it isn't something to be proud of at all. And that is not even the full amount, because there are many accounts still showing as active but missing blocks every single day - 
Plus 
It's not so much these inactive Witnesses should be unvoted to vote someone else - because most likely many of the accounts still voting for non active Witnesses just can not choose who to vote instead from the 150 active ones. But at the very least unvote them and leave that slot free for when you have inspiration - so we can have a tidy fully active Top 100 to proudly display to the world. I would say that many of the voters are just not active right now - but I know for a fact in the last few weeks a number of big Steem Power holders keeping a number of these accounts at high rank have changed their Witness votes, so either they have not noticed or just don't really care that much.
If you like a good d.poll then head over to Are investors looking at what happens on STEEM I was tempted to add something about inactive Witnesses in other.
Onboarding is always a good buzz word, if you want to get actively into it check out ONBOARDING NEW CONTENT CREATORS it always seems a challenge to bring in new people and get them to stay - but maybe if we can work towards making Steem a more friendly environment that is going places then retention might grow a bit.
I had a very interesting discussion in 
Breaking up all that text, I never even realised I was a writer until I started on Steem. Well I think that pretty much rounds up 
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