RE: Unexploited Opportunity: Post Promotion
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Is such an implementation possible?
It's certainly possible. The 3 posts could even be rotated in proportion to the value that was spent on post promotion, competitively encouraging people to spend more to gain visibility. Another possibility is to interleave the /promoted posts into the feed as the user scrolls down (SteemPeak used to do something like this). Maybe every 5th or every 10th post in the feed could be an inserted /promoted post.
Is it appropriate? Do we even need the ability to promote posts?
I'd say, "yes" and "yes".
This part literally made me laugh out loud:
Unfortunately, the /promoted page is as if somewhere in a parallel dimension, it exists, but no one sees it, no link of any interface leads to it.
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The decision to hide the /promoted page was rather... strange. When you pay for advertising, you hardly expect it to be hidden somewhere under the bed.
I totally don't get why this has been kept buried for the last 5 or 6 years - or however long it's been. Maybe because they split the wallet away from condenser for security reasons? Maybe that separation restricted the ability to provide a "point and click" way to easily promote a post? If so, a solution to this should be possible (and prioritized IMO).
This is exactly what I was thinking.
As far as I know ecency.com does something similar and since it's open source, we can even borrow almost ready-made code from there 😉. Although, I could be very wrong about this.
Here, too, our views converge.
Well, I like to add sarcasm and jokes to my posts, even if the post is supposed to be very serious. I can't do anything about myself 😄.
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