I have to confess it took me a good six months before I started voting for witnesses... and then another six months or more before I had all my votes cast. I didn't really want to vote "just for the sake of it;" I wanted to understand what each wtiness I voted for not only stood for, but I wanted to see what they were doing in the community, with my own eyes.

It's too bad there isn't a more active effort by witnesses to keep an "active log" of what they do, and post updates... I guess the closest is @timcliff's"from the witnesses" posts.

Anyway, witness voting does matter!