So I decided to try out PALnet...
And I wasted all my fucking PAL upvotes for the day. They didn't fucking matter! They only got the Steem.
You know why? Cuz I didn't know you have to stake your PAL. I didn't see anyone talk about it. I thought you just had to hold it. Of course it makes sense that you would stake it...but I didn't see anyone fucking mention it.
So yeah...if you wanna try out PAL, you gotta take the PAL that you HOPEFULLY claimed on Steem-Engine by pressing that stupid little button, and go to your wallet on PALnet, then click the arrow next to your PAL balance, and click "Stake", then enter in the amount you want to Stake it up.
Didn't follow that? It's the same as with the other sites and with Steem. I'll take some screen caps so it's easy.
First, with the PAL drop...I can't really help you with that, if you haven't done it yet, as the stupid little icon disappears once you claim the PAL. I'm pretty sure it's the same as the PAL icon though, so just go to Steem-Engine and click the stupid little icon that's floating in the upper left I believe.
![Screenshot_2019-06-20_21-51-37.png](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTVrBhBqZKBmm5i5YNk2wmfAzbbz1QYRFbHG7EtgMDY72/Screenshot_2019-06-20_21-51-37.png)
Info page for PALcoin from Steem-Engine
To power up / stake your PALcoin, you just have to go to your wallet page, on PALnet.io. You can get there by clicking on your icon in the upper right, and going down to Wallet, just like on the other Steem sites.
![Screenshot_2019-06-20_21-57-27.png](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQDh8Pt321u9pqJvKfbBJM69gmQUcMB8EcapMbCnGkbCn/Screenshot_2019-06-20_21-57-27.png)
This is my PALnet user menu with Wallet selected.
Then you just click where it has your PAL balance, and go down to Stake.
Mine's already 0 because I already did it!
![Screenshot_2019-06-20_22-01-49.png](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWDkfo3RhhQ3iDNusoEGHGpHeXr12ZkuMMXESXwCbz4eJ/Screenshot_2019-06-20_22-01-49.png)
My PAL balance, with the menu expanded.
It then pops up this funny little window where you can type in how much PAL to stake, which will influence your PAL upvote.
I currently have 0 PAL because I staked it all!
Just type in the amount. It's pretty straight forward.
After you do, the word "Stake" will become a button. Then just click it.
![Screenshot_2019-06-20_22-06-33.png](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcY5W6jwSNztU1PmcPkiQggzGH3V6hbJP5Cu6wvKnpTph/Screenshot_2019-06-20_22-06-33.png)
My Stake page, which looks weird, because I'm in night mode, and apparently there's a bug with the Stake window in night mode.
If you click "Advanced" you'll get an additional box where you can put in my name to power up all your PAL to me so I can use it to dominate the world. Do it. You know you want to.
If you didn't notice it, you can enable night mode in the user menu, just under Wallet.
![Screenshot_2019-06-20_22-13-27.png](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXj8f3J2BtQwuYKrdNVp36c4zbYWQ5yBEitS7ycE3in4K/Screenshot_2019-06-20_22-13-27.png)
My user menu on PALnet, with Toggle Night Mode selected.
So what do I think about PALnet?
You know what? It's alright. They didn't do too bad of a job with the front-end, considering it's so new. I'd guess that it's a rebranded version of Condenser, the Steemit frontend. Works pretty well though. Displays people's PAL and all. Their logos could use some work though. Their trending page is still pretty much garbage...but it's like normal post garbage. It's not like horrible utter crap. It's just like normal dumb posts that apparently people upvoted. Not like people in large numbers have a tendency to vote for good things.
I kinda like the concept of PAL more than the reality. It means that people can make their own communities. Of course, unless they take extreme measures, they'll be centralized.
So, sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not gonna sing the PAL praised. It's cool. But...I worry about who controls the PAL.
Now, who wants to make some other kinda coin community and kneecap PAL by making ComicNerdsWhoSecretlyLoveJustinBieberNET?
While I don't think Pal is perfect I do think their whales are at least meeting once a week and trying to do things well.
More so, while it is imperfect it is the first large community with a front end and a token and I want to support that model in hopes that others will make one too.
It might save some bloggers if hf21 goes as bad as it seems like it might.
Oh god...I hope HF21 doesn't go as bad as I think it will. I feel like it's likely going to crash and burn like the last one, then it's going to need a hasty patch that only half fixes things. Then they'll never fully fix it...or at least not for a long time.
Fingers crossed @geekpowered. I'm also not very optimistic.
Cheers
Piotr
Dear @whatsup
Good point.
I'm just wondering if there is anything special about this particular front-end? We've busy.org, steempeak.com, sportshub.io and probably many more. Is there any particular reason to focus our attention on Palnet? Any idea?
It's my first time I'm using Palnet and I found your publication very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with this platform.
Yours
Piotr
Dear @geekpowered
It's my first time I'm using Palnet and I found your publication very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with this platform.
I'm just wondering if there is anything special about this particular front-end? We've busy.org, steempeak.com, sportshub.io and probably many more. Is there any particular reason to focus our attention on Palnet? Any idea?
what do you mean with those communities? Is it something Steemit doesn't have?
Yours
Piotr
Not really yet, as far as I know. There's 50/50 curation and a free flag every day. The main thing is that it lets you earn PAL. You can then Stake that to reward more PAL, or sell it, or apparently buy a vote from a bot being run by aggroed and the group doing this whole Steem-Engine thing. I'm not sure I see anything that really makes it worth it, other than the extra money. If they can grab enough people that join their community and want to use it, that might be a good enough reason, but if they can't, there will be other communities that come along soon enough likely.
Well, you could create a community for pretty much anything...lets say comic books. You could build a front end that shows all the comic tags. Then you could have a bot that lets people reward others with your comic coin. Staking those coins could let you reward comic coin with upvotes, and in turn get them for "curating" those post. This then in turn gives people extra incentive to talk about comics and curate other comic posts.
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