@tolkatore
The nice thing about steemit is you can voice out your concern and I highly recommend it for the betterment of our community. This is how we improve our flatform, use your voice and act on it by voting.
This is an excellent way to educate other steemians on how they will you use their votes. We all have 30 votes to spare for witnesses, so vote WISELY.
Don't follow the mob trail, before you vote a witness. Get to know them first, check their capacity as witness managing and securing servers, how they give back to the community and outside of steem, how they help improve the flatform and so on. If you voted a witnesses, once in a while check their status, are they still active or inactive, un-vote or re-allocate your votes to another witness. It's not written in stone, you can change them anytime you like.
And yes we need a Witnesses to keep the steem blockchain to run smoothly. Behind the scene, these servers are up and running 24x7 to make sure that you will continue to produce articles, comment to posts, etc.
We need 20 Witnesses and +1 backup, currently we have hundreds of Witnesses out there. The Top 75 can pay their own servers and get some extra, while the the remaining witnesses below 75 are all managing their servers at loss, paying out of pocket.
I hope I was able to share useful insights.
We are steeming for the future. By the way, thank you @ulqu3 for alerting me for this article.
Cheers for now.
@Yehey
This is all fine and good, but they need to start asking the people what we want as far as change and improvements are concerned pertaining to the Steemit platform as a whole.
So what do you have in mind? Maybe I can take it up to the next level, no promises but I will try and share to other witnesses I know who are very active in the platform.