Thanks for the links! I have read them and I agree - DPOS could be just flat out better. But the POS advocates are so dismissive. I keep feeling that I must be missing something - they are intelligent people. A comment I read recently, maybe one of yours, wished academics were doing papers on DPOS, getting into formal research on it. But I am interested in the automated consensus versus human mediated consensus angle. That might also make DPOS more desirable.