There's definitely potential in rewarding shares but doing that sustainably; it's hard for me to see how one could pull that off. In my mind that token needs to serve other purposes as well. With HIVE and the other community tokens, the consumer gets consumer/curator rewards. So there's author, curation rewards; add a share pool to that. Then the value of the token can be driven by consumer demand. Of course I've been talking about that consumer driven demand for what feels like years now. Not enough consumers around; not enough attention placed on attracting consumers or marketing the platform/concepts to consumers. Creating all this content for such a small audience that hardly sees the value in simply sharing good work to the outside; I dunno man...
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Hmm, I haven't given the token a staking feature cause in and of itself it seemed pointless, i.e. "lock up your tokens for x time to get inflation", especially when the market needed liquidity and close to no one could buy in a considerable amount without moving the price up 10x (I've literally moved it 10x on several occasions with less than 100 Hive buy power at a time). There could be something there for a curation system but I'm not sure the point of it, say a front-end where POSH holders can curate content, but again this feels like splitting up the community and front-end links even more and I'm not a big fan of those.
Giving the token more usecases is our main priority, right now there is literally no buy demand because why would people buy/speculate on a token that's main purpose is to just get more people to share and possibly bring more traffic to our front-ends. No I'm not trying to be sarcastic here but you know how people are, if they're not directly instantly seeing a netgain for themselves they don't think longterm/greater good.
My plans after the POSH PETS NFT is out and a custom staking method exists is to give the token usecases in the form of sinks and possible buy backs that would not be used to give POSH/NFT holders "staking" rewards but also burn from supply. There are a few ways we can do that, I don't want to say too much what else I have planned, not just cause it's most likely going to take a long time but also due to uncertainty and don't want people to yolo/fomo into it expecting results. Even though I have a lot of tokens of it myself I don't consider myself vested enough to spend all of my energy/focus on it as I see it as a community token that had a fair airdrop distribution to those who have been sharing and were registered all along and has been funded mainly through post rewards thus far.
I like that it offers the possibilities of doing more with it at any time in the future though, no one's going to be able to complain that there was a ninjamine or unfair allocation of supply from the creator(s) cause there isn't, anyone who's vested in it has either earned the tokens or bought in when the market existed. Same can't be said for most of the other tokens out there. That along is not enough to make it exceptional of course and I'd like focusing on it as a hobby as I have been and at some point when the time feels right and there's enough of a base foundation working and has several usecases I might make a move for a DHF proposal to build more and more things on top of it. There's definitely lots of possibilities and many things still missing on Hive that could easily start to exist but the end goal would still be so the main idea behind it is enforced with a stronger buy pressure and other utilities than just issuing out tokens forever to sharers.