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RE: Giving Thanks To The Shepherds Of STEEM
@libertyranger we are very grateful for your service as a witness! Thank you for keeping us updated and making the request for the 100 Steem as a witness below rank 80 which I just sent from @budgets!
For increasing votes, it seems one of the most helpful strategies when participating in the community is to identify those of us not making any witness votes and request they set us as a proxy because this proxy voting power allows for other witnesses more which creates a positive feedback loop for getting more witness votes!
I still did not understand what witnesses really do?
When you post a comment like this comment somewhere in the world that comment has to be stored. We run and maintain the servers that store that comment. There are a total of 20 main server distributed around the world. Having this many servers allows the steem blockchain to stay online 24/7 without any failures. IT is a type of redundancy through mass deployment.
The people like myself that run "backup-witness servers" stand ready to fill in when load is high or when a primary witness server may go off line for any given reason.
We are like the volunteer website hosting company of employees for steemit to put it in a more simple explanation.