You don't know what you don't know, right?
It's not his fault, but I had no idea who was behind it. Because of that, again my fault not his, I had not voted for his witness. I am a heavy user of steemit.chat and highly promote it too from my new promising user reply information to admin'ing a few channels there. I should have done better research to know who was behind the project and supported them more.
I cannot be the only one who was using it without voting for his witness too. There are thousands like me who simply didn't know. Now they do. We can easily fix this mistake. The first thing I do each morning is open steemit.chat. This morning the second thing I did was vote for @riverhead's witness. Thousands of other users, whether they are on steemit.chat or not, should also be doing the same.
Heck, it is the main help channel, and @steamcleaners and many other initiatives were using it for coordination. Such services do not come for free. There's no such thing as free as we all know. People have to put time and money into these projects. They have to put part of their life into them, and they should be aptly rewarded for their successes. Steemit.chat is a vital service and definitely well worth a high reward too!
Thanks to @riverhead once again, and I apologize for missing your vote.