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RE: Lessons learned from bot operation during "the whale experiment" and hardfork 18
The variety of content on the trending page was a function of the guilds. With out them, the site has returned to it's original focus which was predominantly posts about steemit. The reason why this is the natural tendency is the community is small, and the most prominent members are actively involved in the development of the site and thus vote on content that they like (which not surprisingly mirrors their involvement).
Yep. I consciously try to avoid writing/commenting/voting on steem themed articles, and I still can't do it. It's the only thing we all have in common. I have steem and steemit categories blacklisted in my bot, so at least most of my SP is fenced off from voting on that content.
I don't even usually read anything with a #steemit tag
You have better self discipline than I. ; -) I keep telling myself to work on that, but I never listen.
Haha ;D
Hopefully steempower delegation will help with the trending page, since the whale experiment seems to have driven the struggling guilds into a ditch.
Spot on. Without the guilds, you simply don't get natural votes for non-Steem articles, because there arn't that many people on here interested in non-Steem stuff.
I consider the experiment to be a complete failure.
Its probably not that people are entirely uninterested, but rather not enough are interested to get a post trending. The benefit from the guilds was they got a variety of things trending, and that visibility led to people who were actually interested checking them out.