You still control your STEEM - delegating STEEM is something different entirely.
Think of it more like a representative government. You vote for witnesses, but your vote is based on how much STEEM you control, and the witnesses run the servers that allow Steem to function and decide which laws to pass (protocol changes... hard forks).
You don't get any explicit reward for voting (and less than 15% of users vote).
You still control your STEEM - delegating STEEM is something different entirely.
Think of it more like a representative government. You vote for witnesses, but your vote is based on how much STEEM you control, and the witnesses run the servers that allow Steem to function and decide which laws to pass (protocol changes... hard forks).
You don't get any explicit reward for voting (and less than 15% of users vote).
Thank you for explaining. I understand it a little better.