All it takes is enough like minded individuals that see the potential.  :)

The front end doesn't matter as long as the tag is used and the person voting has stake.  The palnet.io front end is a great way to find other people that are using the same tag/protocol for voting and curating, as with palnet, we specifically made curation more worthwhile so that people don't feel they have to make content.  I would say just think of palnet as a second layer running over the steem you already use that only applies to posts with the tag.  Essentially it's what SMTs were supposed to be.

That's the goal.  :)

<em>And I got a bit 
Of PAL. Time will tell if it 
Will be successful. 
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My concern is more with the three years that followed the ninja mine and the lack of big accounts actually playing the "proof of brain" game and just playing the "make ourselves rich while starving out everyone else" game.  I'm saying this in general, I realize there are exceptions, but when it got to the point that I couldn't honestly onboard people with a good conscience and it seems like the only reason anyone is willing to consider the changes we've been asking for since the beginning is because the community has mostly left, it felt like time to do something else.  Hopefully PAL can be the "people's stimulus" or something that STEEM needs.

1 Is not intentional and should be fixed within a week.  

2 Yes, I'm not sure if you're vote is able to give a whole PAL or not, but I have personally awarded some PAL for comments and I think this most likely a symptom of problem 1.

3 7 days

4 That's still being determined as the reward pool fills out, but it should be getting easier every day for the next few days at least.

5 Voting on PAL affects voting mana exactly voting on STEEM does, but it only affects your PAL mana when voting on posts with the palnet tag.

6 All transactions on the STEEM blockchain require resource credits, one of the reasons for listing 60% of the initial supply as a sell wall on Steem Engine is to supply resource credits to a pool once the feature is added to STEEM.

7 Not yet that I know of, but I imagine someone will build it.

8 Not yet, but that is something Steem Engine is currently working on.

9 No, until problem 1 is addressed it's whole units only.  Shouldn't be for long though.

LOL, well considering the claimdrop is out and there's plenty of people that are providing some very cheap coins, who knows, maybe you'll get lucky lol.

It was debated many times, but I think we came to the best decision possible.  It's interesting because the leadership team is a collection of very different individuals and we all have pretty unique perspectives on things, but I can honestly say that we all care about doing the right thing for the community and seeing this place grow.  Glad to see you here!

Clearly you get it.  :)

If we can end up with a better distribution than 1% of the accounts owning 99% of the tokens, I think that's progress.  :)