It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, once it has been tweaked a bit, over time.

Precisely. Time and adjustments are crucial factors.

We're looking to build a model that can be replicated successfully and that doesn't happen in a month, or three. I'm very grateful to the people who helped with building the project out to this stage (starting back in the middle of November when I started reaching out to people, or maybe even way back in July when we first kicked off POBLeus). I'm sure they'll tell you, this is only the beginning.

especially if they are designed to help engagement, which I believe is essential to the success of a community, in the long run.

I'm with you there. I find the polarization between low and high stakeholders has an adverse effect on genuine engagement. If we can design a distribution funnel that bridges this gap and addresses the common flaws of the PoB/DPoS system (typically the encouragement of greed and centralised thinking) we should see an increase in genuine engagement, imo.