Previously I posted about how I am trying to spread votes across different users and my main reason for this is to try and get people to engage in the POB community and build their stake. I know that some will not stake and will dump their tokens, but with only 21 million total tokens available in total, POB will become more and more difficult to obtain. Now is the best time to gain a foothold and get the maximum return for investment whether that be purchasing tokens or through Proof of Brain and posting.
One of my biggest concerns is always the Trending page on any Proof of Brain token. That is where I usually go to see how many tokens the biggest payouts are and who is receiving these payouts. During my earlier days on Steem I always similar authors hitting the Trending page and then it became easy to pay for votes to get onto the Trending page. If you go and look at the Steem trending page now (don't) you will see it has denigrated into a cesspool of junk, more than it has ever been.
Now when I look at the Trending page on POB, I don't see a cesspool of junk, but authors creating worthwhile content that they have spent significant amounts of time developing. My only concern, though I acknowledge that it is still relatively early days yet, is that a number of authors feature on the trending page regularly and numerous times. Now that is not a real concern when the content is fantastic and the support from the community is there for them. What I fear it can do is concern new users to the community if the same users feature and it appears that authors and larger stakeholders are circle-jerking.
I don't believe there is any circle-jerking really happening on POB at the moment. Sure the same authors creating relevant content are receiving big upvotes regularly but they are creating good content and deserve the votes. Whales from HIVE and LEO are jumping feet first into POB as well and building their stakes which is encouraging and I know that these users will use their stake to keep content relevant and rewards proportional, as will I. I will keep staking POB and will use my stake to reduce rewards to posts if I felt that jerking was occurring and shitty content was receiving big payouts.
I hope other larger stakeholders would also be willing to use their stake to remove rewards from posts if the rewards were not warranted. I know this is a tricky thing but it will be what makes POB standout from the other tribes if we are willing to keep highly-rewarded content original and of high quality.
Keep POBbing and thanks for reading.
