Thank you for bringing it to our attention @edicted
PALNET
Myself I invested some of my personal funds in PAL, believing that this platform has some potential and that team behind it is very professional and transparent with their actions.
I surely have my own doubts right now. I hope someone from PALnet could bring some more clarification to this issue. It's seriously quite worrying.
ps. how do you know that all those highlighted people are moderators? Just curious.
SINKS
The best way I can think of to add value to these new communities is to create token sinks.
Correct me if I understand wrongly. is your suggestion to create more ways of burning tokens? Actually I absolutely agree with you.
Personally I would love idea where Steemit users can pay with STEEM for their ads being displayed on the platform. And those tokens could be burned. Right now Steemit Inc. doesn't allow that. We see ads, however they cannot be purchased by anyone from Steemit community using their own tokens. That's just strange :/
Yours
Piotr