What is worth doing, they said, is worth doing well. Greetings to you all once again my fellow steemians and the entire steemit community at alarge. It is time for me to drop my last achievement post. It gives great joy to achieve a set objective and at the time allotted to it. I set a personal goal to round up my achievements before the diary game restarts. Well, even though i have not dropped this achievement before now but i have seriously been working on it. I am late by a day in trying to achieve it but it is worthy it. Hence, friends, i therefore present to you my last achievement in tne new commers community which is understanding curation and community, achievement 6. The road has not really been easy but the whole learning process gives me joy because i have been exposed to a lot of new things i didn't know at the beginning of my journey in steemit. Please, read through to see my understanding of the above mentioned subject.

To vote a post means to like a post or to dislike it. Like and dislike are common words used in other social media platforms like facebook. But in steemit, we rather use the word vote. A post can either be upvoted when the writer creates a good content that follows all the rule of plagiarism or even be downvoted when the contents are questionable or at the discretionof the user. A user may decide to downvotea post not necessarily becausea rule has been violated but to achievehis or her aim best knownto him or her. However, unlike in most social media platforms where liking or disliking a post does not earn one anything, in steemit, there is a fixed reward pool on Steem. Users vote on good content to distribute rewards from the reward pool to users who post quality content as opined by @cryptokannon. He went further to explain

Users who distributed the rewards get 50 percent of the rewards they distributed.
The more Steem Power you have, the more rewards you can distribute from the reward pool.
Starting with the network's 16th hard fork in December 2016, Steem began creating new tokens at a yearly inflation rate of 9.5%. The inflation rate decreases at a rate of 0.01% every 250,000 blocks, or
about 0.5% per year.
The inflation will continue decreasing at this pace until the overall inflation rate reaches 0.95%. This will take about 20.5 years from the time hard fork 16 went into effect.
75% of the new tokens that are generated go to fund the reward pool, which is split between authors and curators.
15% of the new tokens are awarded to holders of SP.
The remaining 10% pays for the witnesses to power the blockchain

Curation on the other hand comes as a result of voting. This is to say that voting brings about curation. Once a post is voted on a content, curation ensues as a result. This curation is a process by which rewards are distributed from the reward pool to the creator of the content you are voting. It is a way of lending support to such a content creator for a job well done. But note that for such reward to be distributed in a positive manner, you must have upvoted and not downvoted. Note also that the your voting power you you have at the moment is what will influence the amount of reward that you can distribute. Hence, it is imparative that you always power up to ensure that you distribute a reasonable reward ( smiles). But, isn't. The green and red v sign at the end of a post which is inserted inside a circle is the voting future. The green is upvote while the red is the downvote.

What is my voting mana?
Just like your spending power decreases each time you buy something and pays, or according to the example used by @cryptokannon, "energy bar" in a computer game , the voting power goes down a little bit every time you vote. You start out with 100% voting mana. Every time you vote, you will use a small amount of your voting mana. As you use more of your voting mana, your votes will carry less influence. A vote with 50% voting mana left will be worth 1/2 as much as a vote cast with 100% voting mana. But don't worry, the goodnews is that the network recharges your voting mana by 20% every day. This is wonderful, isn't it?
Where can I check my voting mana?
You can view your current voting mana using third party tools such as https://steemscan.com/account/youraccount or https://steemdb.io/@youraccount

Every 100% vote i cast will use 2% of my remaining voting mana. My voting mana will then recharge by 20% each day. I can vote more than 10 times per day, but each vote will be worth less, and it will take longer to reach full voting mana again.
New users can only vote at a 100% voting strength but as they grow to become old in the system their steem power grows up to 500sp and thus can adjust their voting strength in between 1 to 100vt, using the adjustment bar. They are at liberty to do so without violating any rule.
The rewards are allocated so that 50% of the payout goes to the author of the post/comment, and 50% goes to the curator.
But it is important to note that out of the 50% that goes to the curator, the curator will receive less than 100% if the curator votes within the first 5 minutes.
The split of the 50% that the curator receives during the first 5 minutes is calculated linearly based on the time the vote is cast(@cryptokannon).

In order to achieve their goal, of producing a new bloch every 3 seconds, the Steem blockchain schedules witnesses to help them with it . Their 21 witness nodes produce 21 blocks in each 63-second round. You can imagine that
Steem Current Witnesses.
Steem witnesses are saddled with the responsibility of creating blocks using a consensus mechanism that is known as delegated proof of stake or DPOS. This role or responsibility is assigned to them by the Steem blockchain. The community elects 'witnesses' to act as the network's block producers and governance body. There are 20 full-time witnesses, producing a block every 63-second round. A 21st position is shared by the backup witnesses, who are scheduled proportionally to the amount of stake-weighted community approval they have. Witnesses are compensated with Steem Power for each block they create. These witnesses further act as police to prevent attacks from hackers.

For the immense contributions made in steemit community and the personal help i have derived from their work in completing my achievements, i will personally like to vote for @steemchiller and @justyy. As you can see from the screenshot, @steemchiller is ranked first and justy 4th to show the degree of their contributions.

Steemit is blessed with a lot communities with different objectives and aspirations. Varieties they say, is the spice of life. Users are free to join any community that serves their purpose provided they will abide by the rules and regulations that are guiding such communities. I am presently and currently with @steemAlive. By virtue of the fact that my mentor is the founder and the admin of that community, in the person of @focusnow who has mentored me to this level and is still willing and eager to do so. Additionally, @steemalive is a community that has so many good intentions for its its members. And the members of @steemalive are just like one family, as if it was the same biological parents that gave birth to them all.the Mission statement reveals their objective and that is why i stick to it as my community. Below is our mission statement:

At this juncture, i want to believe that i have done justice to my achievement 6. I still open my heart wide to further learning and further improvements. I am sincerely grateful to @cryptokannon whose work i have relied so much on to enable me achieve this feat. I am also grateful to @yohan2on and @steemchiller for their immense contributions. I will not quickly forget @focusnow, my mentor who has mentored me thus far, accolade to you for your patience and encouragement. I can worry, but no complaints from him. And to my fellow new commers, their is no mountain that is insurmountable, only if you believe and work towards it. You will definitely reach your goal. And to all steemians, keep up your good works because you are inadvertently inspiring someone out their and even within. Thank, thank you and thank you all.