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.

_{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.

_{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!

_{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.

_{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.

_{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?