Thanks @jackmiller. I just found out one of my witness votes is marked with a red strikethough. I think that means they are inactive, yet I noticed they continue to promote the witness on all the recent posts on steemit. I took the initiative and researched, and contacted them on discord to find out why they are campaigning for witness votes without an active server.
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You can tell if they are dead or just temporarily down for maintenance by looking at their last produced block time and lets say their price feeds.
If they haven't done either of the two in a long time, there is a very good chance that they have resigned.
The best approach is to do what you did, ASK people up front!