I am currently using 18/30 votes. If you believe I should vote for someone I haven't voted for please leave your case in the comments :)

My Witness Vote Choices

Brief Vote Explanation

1. @roelandp - Creates and manages Steemtools.com and runs Steemfest, also made a cool site called solicitingpower.com where people can post projects to ask for delegations
2. @good-karma - @Esteem creator and maintainer
3. @aggroed - Creator of PAL
4. @anyx - Creator of @guard and @cheetah
5. @jerrybanfield - Creates educational and valuable Steemit articles and videos
6. @blocktrades - Enhancing the marketplace and ease of exchange of Steem
7. @curie - Helping curate quality posts for Steemit
8. @teamsteem - Helping curate quality posts for Steemit
9. @yabapmatt - Creator of Steembottracker.com
10. @justinadams- A genuinely helpful guy and from my experiences with him I know he is a great witness and even offered to help me get setup as one myself as well as help me setup my first bot top support the Steemers community
11. @noisy.witness - Creator of Steemprojects.com
12. @utopian-io - For all the amazing work they do for development of different projects and managing commits to github etc.
13. @patrice - Creator of @spaminator and @steemcleaners
14. @prc - Creator of @dsound
15. @steemcommunity - Awesome work they do reporting on what all the witnesses are doing and who is helping the community the best and communicating with us etc. It's run by @abh12345 and @paulag but I've mainly followed his reporting
16. @adsactly-witness - like I said before I am not a huge fan of custom curation tags, but theirs is quality
17. @arcange - helps combat spam made tons of great projects like Steem Toolbar, Steemsql, Steem.net
18. @busy.witness - amazing subplatform of Steemit

Changes I'd Like To See

The main issue is that most Steemit witnesses for their thread link they just write their seed node stats. I know it's important, but we need to have a better underSTANDing of what you STAND for. We also need more updates and communication. There is a big lack of presence for witnesses on Steemit for sharing their knowledge. Some share their personal stuff like photography etc., which is awesome and rounds them out as a person but as authorities they should be providing some more value to the people on Steemit.

Another big trend I saw was that there are too many for tags to subscribe to and use. So many witnesses have a tag for you to use, it defeats the point of tags if all the ones you use are for a vote from a witness for more money when we should be using tags to describe the content. Everyone has a different tag so if you want money, you use 5 branded tags, but if you want to have your content where it would make sense and where it was supposed to be you should technically use categorical and niche tags. So use tags to provide SEO, indexing, and information.

I will start a project and dive more into exploring improving communication and trust between users and the witnesses.

Witnes Voters Summary

You can actually check where the majority of votes are coming from for the top witnesses here: http://www.steemreports.com/witness-voters/
It's a nifty new tool I've been using.

Other Reviews / Reports On Witnesses

I read a few reviews from others that influenced my picks a bit but overall this was all from my own research and going through every top 50. I will write more about underrated witnesses moving forward too and maybe make it a "digest"
Here are some:

• https://steemit.com/witness/@cryptoctopus/vote-for-a-good-witness-here-are-my-suggestions by @cryptoctopus
• https://steemit.com/witness/@katrina-ariel/witness-this-who-i-vote-for-and-why-everyone-who-uses-steemit-needs-to-vote by @katrina-ariel
• https://steemit.com/witness/@biasnarrative/have-all-the-top-20-witnesses-verified-that-they-are-real by @biasnarrative

Inactive Witnesses And Using SteemPlus

It's important to make sure you are voting for active witnesses and if you don't want to have to go through with checking that kind of thing you can get SteemPlus which I've talked about many times. It's an extension for your browser with a crazy amount of add-ons for Steemit, one being witness information on your profile and it will show you if you've voted for someone inactive!

You can download that here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/steemplus/mjbkjgcplmaneajhcbegoffkedeankaj

It has many benefits beyond the witness add-on which I'll just show you below

Anyways it shows your votes and you'll see a red line through their name if they are inactive. I was previously voting for @roadscape for the work they did on Steemd.com but realized road was inactive and unvoted. I figured I'd use the example to teach and show you though.

It's important to actively keep up with your witness votes or you should be proxying your vote if you are not at all actively participating in the political system built here. I instead urge and encourage EVERYONE to vote to have the best representation on the Steem blockchain.

I am going on a 4 day vacation from the 22nd-26th so I'll have brief hiatus then come back and announce my witness campaign. (I won't be taking another vacation lol) People have started voting for me, so I am accepting votes and will come back in May with my proposal with sometime to brainstorm on my vacation.

Every time I post I select 1 random winner from the upvotes, resteems, and comments totaling 3 winners and give them 0.01 SBD each and announce it on the next post! I also send out 0.001 monthly to my followers! I use https://snackaholic.github.io/steemfortune/en/ by @snackaholic

The winners from the last post I made here: https://steemit.com/steem/@scottcbusiness/price-flux-profit-on-converting-sbd-to-steem

Were:
@sen.art
@svenis
@krisha25

Note that once I’ve posted a new post the contest is over and this could be subject to any amount of time up to but not longer than 7 days

@ScottCBusiness

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Delegation

📲 If you don’t always use your vote power or all your SP or just want to get upvoted regularly, you can delegate SP to me to support my efforts and help me reward my followers and those I found to provide quality content that is educational or valuable to Steemians. My @Steemersbot will also upvote your content
Use https://steembottracker.com/ to delegate any amount to me and or the bot!

Proxy And Running For Witness

Proxying your vote is pretty simple you just go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses navigate to the bottom and type in a username here:

I have started to take an active interest in Steem witnesses treating them as future global decentralized politics. If you don't want to learn or bother to stay up to date with it, but do not want your vote wasted then you can make me your proxy to vote on your behalf! If you believe in me as a witness kindly vote for me by going to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and voting for me at the bottom by typing in my ‘scottcbusiness’

Vote for @ScottCBusiness