Achievement 6 Task by @timiwei: Understanding Curation and Community: mentored by cryptokannon

Good day everyone

I am here once again to present my next achievement post (achievement 6) titled "understanding curation and community". Please take this journey with me.

Do you understand how voting and curation work in steemit?

Voting

Voting is a way of showing one's opinion about a post or comment in the steem community. It is a feature that is very integral in the steem community and can be likened to feature in some social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. It very much show the acceptability of ones post.
The steem blockchain has the upvote and downvote features.
The upvote 🔺shows approval of a post while the downvote 🔻shows disapproval. Downvote is usually used in cases a post has been plagiarised or a post appears abusive. It is
not often used unlike the upvote feature.

Since there exist a reward pool in steem, the voting is a way of distributing (upvote) and redistributing (downvote) from such pool. As such at the end of the day, users are rewarded based on the quality of posts they put out.
The influence a vote carry is determined by the steem power (SP). The more steem power, the more the influence. The less the steem power the lesser the impact of the vote.

Curation

Curation is done by curators who have a significant amount of steem power with which they usually use to upvote a post. When this is done, the author of the post is rewarded from the reward pool in form of Steem Dollars and steem power.
A couple of curators I have seen carrying out curation include;
•Steemcurator01
•Steemcurator02
•Steemcurator03

When curation is done, the curator is also rewarded for carrying out the activity. The author receive 50% of the reward and the curators also get the other half of the reward.
Curation rewards are also received from upvoting a comment. However,no reward is received for downvoting a post or comment.

What happened if you vote a post before 5 minutes marks after posting?

For each post that is voted, depending on the steem power, the reward are usually shared 50%-50% between the curator and the author.
However, the time frame in which a post is voted after posting affect the reward one can get from the post. Usually, after 5 minutes when a post is made, the reward is usually for the curator remain at 100% of the 50% reward. It starts to reduce if the vote is done less than 5 minute.
For each minute it is less than five minutes, a certain percentage of the reward for the post enters the reward pool. For instance,
At 4 minutes, the curator receive 80% and 20% enters the reward pool
At 3 minutes, the curator receive 60% and 40% enters the reward pool
At 2 minutes, the curator receive 40% and the 60% remaining enters the reward pool
At 1 minute, the curator receive only 20% and the remaining 80% enters the reward pool.

Who will you vote for Steem Witness ? and Why?

In order to vote for a witness, we first have to first access Steem Witness Page. Here, it displays all the list of witnesses and one can only for a maximum of 30 witnesses.

Source

My vote is going to @justyy, for his remarkable role in the development of the Steem Blockchain tool and APIs which has significantly help in account monitoring and management of steem users.

Which community will you join in Steemit, and why?

Since joining the steem family, I have joined several communities that align with my interest.
Below is a list of communities I have joined so far.

Source

The Newcomers' Community was my first point of call in order to familiarize myself with the steem community.
Other areas communities I joined include Steem Geography because of my love for geography as well as SteemAlive.
Others include STEEM NIGERIA, Steem Sports, StickPhotos among others.
I am particularly looking up to been a full member of the SteemitCryptoAcademy

I hope I have been able to answer all questions effectively.
Thank you for reading my achievement Post today.