Auditing My Witness: Let's do our duty [v9] , checking statements against damaging HF

9th report on my Witness list Audit.
This is one of the most important tasks we, as a good steemians, should do in a periodical manner.
In my case, I will try to do this process monthly.

For your information:

Witnesses are the block producers on the Steem blockchain and their role is beyond important. These are the people that literally write the blocks and keep the blockchain itself online.

Steem operates on Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) in which all users vote to determine these witnesses, much like an election. The distinction here is that this election happens moment to moment and your votes never expire.
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Each account can vote for up to 30 witnesses, so, as you can understand, in a certain manner, it is our duty as well as our right as steemians to vote for witnesses which have contrasted solvency working as so, if we want to ensure the good stability and performance of the STEEM Blockchain.

My intention is to take my responsibility as steemian to "audit" my witness list and to try to find or maintain good witnesses and, of course, discard those that I think are doing wrongly, bad or with low performance or community commitment.

HOW?

Very easy, I am using this app. http://duplibot.com/deadwitnesses/ created by @deadwitnesses , you can check this post with the explanation on which information you can get there.

My "Acceptance" criteria will be:

• How many days have past since this witness last wrote a block to the blockchain (PERFORMANCE)
• Did the witness write a Post within a week?
• Did the witness vote a Post within a week?
• Is the signing key of the witness active? (If it is not, it means that this witness cannot produce any block)

Nr	Witness	Last Block (days ago)	Last Post within a week	Last Vote within a week	Signing Key
1	@abit	0	NO	YES	Active
2	@actifit	0	YES	YES	Active
3	@arcange	0	YES	YES	Active
4	@blockbrothers	0	YES	YES	Active
5	@blocktrades	0	YES	YES	Active
6	@cervantes	0	YES	YES	Active
7	@cryptopassion	0	YES	YES	Active
8	@curie	0	YES	YES	Active
9	@demotruk	0	YES	YES	Active
10	@dragosroua	0	YES	YES	Active
11	@drakos	0	YES	YES	Active
12	@emrebeyler	0	YES	YES	Active
13	@fulltimegeek	25	YES	YES	Inactive
14	@fyrst-witness	0	YES	YES	Active
15	@good-karma	0	YES	YES	Active
16	@gtg	0	YES	YES	Active
17	@holger80	0	YES	YES	Active
18	@mahdiyari	0	YES	YES	Active
19	@partiko	0	YES	YES	Active
20	@pharesim	0	YES	YES	Active
21	@quochuy	0	YES	YES	Active
22	@roelandp	0	YES	YES	Active
23	@sc-steemit	0	NO	YES	Active
24	@steemitboard	0	YES	YES	Active
25	@steempeak	0	NO	NO	Active
26	@swisswitness	0	YES	YES	Active
27	@themarkymark	0	YES	YES	Active
28	@therealwolf	0	YES	YES	Active
29	@utopian-io	0	YES	YES	Active
30	@yabapmatt	0	YES	YES	Active

Additionally, this time I am checking as well which of those witnesses have posted a clear Statement against the support and implementation of any Hardfork which would put under risks any steem account.

SUMMARY:

• Removing @fulltimegeek since his key is inactive since almost 25 days ago
• Adding @lukestokes
• The following witnesses do not express or write any statement against supporting any Hardfork which would put under risk any steem account:

@abit
@arcange
@blocktrades
@cryptopassion
@curie
@demotruk
@dragosroua
@fulltimegeek
@good-karma
@gtg
@holger80
@partiko
@pharesim
@quochuy
@roelandp
@sc-steemit
@steemitboard
@steempeak
@swisswitness
@themarkymark
@utopian-io

I would prefer not to do it but, as I said here, I find necessary a Public Commitment Statement specifying the "no-implementation, support, or condone of any proposed hard fork that effects the balances, keys, or security of any accounts on the current chain."...

Thus, I will review the list again in a few days, I hope by then some of the witnesses listed there will complete their statement...
For those still remaining in the list, I will unvote them...

What about you? Which witnesses do you recommend to vote and why?

*Reminder: if you feel like not having time to do a proper analysis and still think that mine is fair , you can also choose me as your proxy that will vote for witnesses for you.

Just, keep using your witness votes doing an important work.

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Steem on!

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