Thoughts on the Trending page
Hello all,
Am I the only one who doesn't cast a jealous eye to the Trending page? Only seldom does a post of mine come anywhere close to this rarified ground, and I'm at peace with that.
I do check that page, maybe a once or twice a week, just to catch up on important steemit news, and it is useful for this. You can often catch the steemitblog post or some other important news there.
But you'll have to sift through a lot of pretty silly posts there as well.
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One thing to remember though, is that the Trending page is purely a function of the front end interface. I could create a site that shows only my posts (even if they were flagged to oblivion) on the "trending" page. People might not want to use my site, I understand.
Popular Steem front ends could take the opportunity to redefine their own trending pages. I'll grant you that the most common and default definition of trending posts would be: posts that make the most money per week. Fine, that's a fairly objective definition, but sites don't have to stick with that 100% (or at all).
Idea: subtract the amount of money used to vote up posts via voting bots when determining trendability
Here is a random idea: if a person spends 100 SBD to vote up a post to a value of 500 SBD, the front end interface could use the value 500 - 100 = 400 for purposes of it's placement on the trending page. The idea here is that posts that "naturally" have a high value will have more visibility than the "artificially" high posts that were just bot voted up.
Of course, this wouldn't change anything with the rewards or reward pool, just visibility.
To be honest I'm not even sure I like this idea myself, I have nothing against bot voting services. I view them as a form of paid advertisement. Do we want to start separating the concept of rewards with visibility? I'm just thinking out loud here.
It would be nice to have a "better" trending page
Whatever "better" means. It's pretty subjective, but I don't have too many other ideas at the moment. Maybe it is what it is.
On a side note, I think it's funny when people use the #trending tag on their posts, hoping that this alone will send their post into trending. Maybe it will work for me ;)
I'm still hoping for a local Steem browser
I do believe that eventually we will have a local steem browser that anyone can use. Then everyone will be free to decide for themselves what sort of Trending page they want to have. And they will have 100% control of what's visible and what's not.
We shouldn't be logging into a centralized site for the Steem blockchain.
Totally agree. I never try to compare myself with the trending. I think I am about the only one to not buy upvotes as well. I just like to go about and do my own thing :)
i didn't like trending page... sometimes so silly post were there. i fed up with that.😫
Same here maybe once or twice a visit just so that the motivation keeps within myself ;)
Nothing to say about the posts and the bot service but do get to learn many new things whenever I go through them :)
such a weird place in steemit.no one knows how they got here.
I feel the same. The idea which you gave is nice. I hope it gets implemented.
I highly doubt i will get placed there,it makes me feel like i am on a centralized platform like instagram where the explore page is mainly made up the popular people guess even out of high school you can't escape lol
i see almost once a day and almost it makes no sense so you are right there with a great solution to it
Yes you are correct trending page is the most silly place to visit in steemit.
better trending page is a must to stay updated all the time but it doesn't seem to be happening
Being in the trending page helps especially for supporting people but some people just are like a monster that can outplace many and sit in the trending page because of their huge steem power. So it is just a thing to consider changing how one lands there and it needs concensus to hone that.