@maryfavour, it is a good initiative to put this particular forum based on your pass experiences you had on finding it hard to know what and who steem witnesses are, that's exactly how life should be, when you pass a certain stage in life, you learn lessons and also try helping others so as not to fall victim of what you passed through, it's a good example and an attitude worths emulating.
#knowyourwitness has always been a learning platform for me because all my unknown steemit question and secret are being revealed there.
thank you for this great help and assistance to the newbies and steemit community at large.
AS A MATURED PERSON, THEY ARE MANY THINGS YOU DON'T NEED ANYONE TO TELL YOU BEFORE YOU DO IT PROVIDED IT'S FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL.