Hi Matt. I do understand the challenges of having a balance between steemit/real world life. Appreciate you stopping by! Thank you for your support on this post. :)

Last, but not least - since this post is about witnesses, please let me know if you have any questions about witnesses, what they do, how the system works, or anything.

The witnesses are the most important part of the Steem platform. Without them the platform would not run. They make the final decisions about what changes get made to the platform and what new features get implemented or not. So that's why it's of vital importance that everyone, big or small, knows who the witnesses are that run the platform and casts their votes!

My sentiments exactly! Many of us don't understand the roles of a witness and are not knowledgeable enough to make informed votes. Our team are already researching the witnesses we would like to support, and thought it would be a good idea to share with the Newbie Resteem community.

EVERYONE, please feel free to ask any questions you have for Matt

Thanks @yabapmatt for graciously offering STEEM or SBD as additional prizes for our contests. This contest is more of an 'opener' to the ones we plan on having regarding witnesses. Those will be more interesting!

I am tagging @davemccoy, the tireless leader of our community. He will happily reach out to you about future contests and ways our community could benefit from your support. So so many of our team members go that extra mile to support newbies on here. It would be wonderful if we could find avenues to help both our members and the newbies that make it into our steemit lives.