For me personally, it was an amazing opportunity to become a very large stake holder for relatively very little risk.
I've been talking about fixing the trending and hot tab for over a year. How much work have I actually put toward that goal? Not much.
However, now that I'm a huge stake holder on PAL I can try to bring value to the platform that I have a lot of stake on. I no longer have to make money directly, if I bring enough indirect value to PAL I'll be doing just fine.
That is one of our goals to have awesome, original content on the trending and hot tabs and is why we have a bunch of the moderators and lidership from PALNet (large stake holders) following our manual curation account @msp-curation