I have read a few posts from people "complaining" about how much work Steem is at the moment, like this one from 
I was away when the #steemleo token was dropped a few days ago but, it was a decent idea to drop it on those who have already been staking up their PAL. I wonder if anyone is annoyed they sold their airdropped PAL was soon as they got it? As I have always said, stake will beat post earnings most f the time and in the future, stake will be increasingly used for airdrops for various tokens and most likely, they will also be tempered through an oracle for activity and behavior also.
It is getting very interesting isn't it? I have already given up on any thoughts of maximization of voting long ago because I vote manually and with the layers of tokens on top, it is getting increasingly hard. Then there is going to be the growing amount of tokens and the process that only some posts can earn on some, and it will be difficult to post across all interfaces. I am sure there are going to be many that automate a great deal and crosspost and repost consistently to try and take advantage of all the tokens, valuable or not.
Regardless, for those who are able to prove themselves to the community in whatever ways they can and gain support, it is likely that they are able to take a significant amount of tokens on the one post and essentially diversify relatively automatically. While people might be worried about the SPS and EIP taking STEEM earnings away, having any number of more voters could increase earnings significantly of native tokens on other interfaces.
There are PAL whales, orcas and dolphins that are not large Steem holders - There are LEO whales, orcas and dolphins who got airdropped on their PAL stake. What this means is that one account can essentially issue three tokens on one vote and currently at least, those tokens are not without their own value with PAL at about 0.5 Steem and LEO at about 0.25 of a Steem. That is significant and those who are holders of STEEM, PAL and LEO are actually issuing a great deal of value in one vote.
Do you see how quickly the game changes - or did you miss it? This is the expansion of the community that means that in time, no one person or likely even a bot is going to be able to maximize successfully and will instead have to have a strategy that isn't efficient. This creates opportunity for others as there is a loss of "energy" that can be utilized under a different strategy. In many ways, this increasing complication through interface and token means that there are taps and trickles opening up all over the platform.
The EIP brings in another layer of complexity and adds randomization to the vote values through potential downvoting and those who recognize their community responsibility and take part in even the most obvious targets, means that there is a tap back into the Steem pool that gets distributed again.
This increasing network will generate a whole range of experiences that while lucrative to some, will be completely uninteresting to others - this is the life of tribalism. But it isn't tribe against tribe, it is experience of interaction and content that attracts people who are interested in that particular content and community. It creates a freedom and the more people participate, the greater the value of any individual tribe grows.
Remember though, all of them are powered on the Steem blockchain and it is Steem that is going to be the core bandwidth allocation mechanism. From an investment standpoint, owning Steem is holding a title of a piece of the infrastructure that everyone is going to be utilizing. As I have said, own where the demand is going to be and that demand is going to arrive on Steem. Owning Steem not only is an investment opportunity like no other, it empowers the coming communities and offers them a playground where they can build for the best chance of success.
It is getting interesting out there. Can you keep up?
Taraz
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