Thanks for giving it a shot! You can do whatever you like with your PAL, but as you say, staking it gives you the chance to double dip~ a good way to think of it is it's going to mirror and expand beyond your Steem experience. When you vote on a Steem site or on PALnet, you'll be awarding both tokens if you have them staked. Staking your PAL is the same thing as powering up Steem... depending on how many of each you have staked as SP or as PAL power, you will be giving out rewards as both each time you vote on a post that has the palnet tag or is on the PALnet front end. It's a cool system and lets you do things the way you always have, but it also might get you doing things differently!

Our big goal is to give people another way to look at and reward the same Steem content, and hopefully to get them excited about the basics.. curating, posting, and engaging again. Thanks for joining us on this adventure!