"just 50 accounts are holding 87% of the tokens"
Perfect! This is what I needed to hear. I saw someone the other day who was excited because they finally had amassed 1000 POB. I saw another post that showed the whales and their holdings in POB...then I thought...well, that ain't a whole lot of POB. It's like staking now will get me on the 2010 bitcoin mining level...All I have to do is make great content on POB and it won't be long before I have 1000+ POB. When all the small accounts cash out at 20 POB or less, it makes me consider how much faster my account can grow if I just use the delayed gratification method. I consider myself a reasonable person, so it will be nice to have a whale who isn't putting down people to kick them off the platform to make their accounts fatter...I digress... I think your initiative is a good one. If you want people to stake the coin, you'll need more posts showing the benefits of doing so. One of the greatest benefits I found from staking hive is leasing my delegation. It caused me to buy a lot of the token, knowing that the ROI would be guaranteed...gotta love smart contracts...when you lease the token, you know the people receiving the delegation will have to do something with it to earn the underlying token to pay you back. You want activity? Lease the tokens...though I can't guarantee the leasee won't make crap posts and just upvote themselves...sorry, I went a little on a tangent.
Yes, I agree with @leprechaun's proposal of making a better/cleaner UI. Being able to use an app would help, too. I also wish 3speak would load videos faster...
I had similar views regarding POB. I started staking as much as I could. The payouts are great and the guidelines are solid. Mr. leprechaun is doing some solid work.