Do you watch the trending or hot pages in Steemit ? If yes, then why ??
There have been significant discussions around the trending or hot page on steemit and now a days posts make it to those pages by mostly using paid upvotes or bot upvotes. Some people believe, these pages are of no use. However, I still go and see at them. The reason being, sometimes I see some interesting posts which brings or has potential to bring changes in to the steem block chain in a positive manner.
Do you watch the trending or hot page ? If yes, then why ? Pitch in your opinion.
I personally don't give a damn thing about posts that were being in the Trending page
Almost all of those posts that were being found in the trending page was using bidbots to boost their earnings.
I prefer reading posts that were not having huge amount of upvotes rather than those posts in the trending page.
Also I believe that I still get the chance to read good quality posts that was being resteemed by those persons that I follow.
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ow, I think I also look sometimes to trending posts, but it the tag really matter. Let's say trending posts in the #philippine tag, I tend to look for those.
But not the trending page for all the tags in Steemit
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I do check the trending page everyday. Even though most of the posts there are due to bidbots influence. There are some good posts that one can tap knowledge from.
Some Dapps on the blockchain with little or no upvote utilize the bidbots to enter the trending page. This means more people will see it and buy into their idea. That is one of the good side of bidbots.
Despite the fact that the posts are bidbots pushed posts, the user can filter and choose the one to read rather than reading all.the posts in trending.
No one wants to miss an opportunity. I learnt of many new platforms via the trending page, so Yes I do check it every day and will advice others to do so.
I for one read stuffs on Trending and the Hot section but mostly skips authors that I know are only just using bidbots to boost their content into trending.
As someone who have been here for over half a year now, I now know who writes whatever random things they can think of then boost it with bidbots eventually placing them a spot on Trending. So it gets literally easy who to skip next when browsing Trending.
Also I have seen those people who almost always say avoid the Trending section since it is just mostly posts being boosted by bots not organic votes, however I for one don't really see much issue in here. Quality is subjective and while many people don't really care much about Bitcoin-related news or a travel-life-blogstyle posts, others love it. I for one love reading personal blog posts rather than fictional stories.
I most certainly do. Just about every important announcement or launch or relevant information happening on steemit gets on the hot or trending pages. One of the sure fire ways to stay abreast of all that's happening on steemit is to always look through those pages. When musing was officially launched, it was on the trending page, when stach officially launched it was on the trending page. Just about every dapp on steemit that's been launched has been on the hot or trending pages.
If you ask me, that's the best place to stay up to speed with what's going on in the steemit community as a whole.
I don't, really ever. A lot of the trending posts are results of bidbots etc., which I am not strongly against but I don't often find the content I'm looking for on there.
But, another reason I don't is that I'm more interested in trying to find less popular works to promote. There is a ton of great content being put out on Steemit every day that goes virtually unnoticed. If it gets to the trending page; then that's great! But at that point, I'd rather give my .01 vote to someone who hasn't even broken the payout threshold yet for something they poured their heart and soul into.
What Steem needs is a fairer division of power. It can happen organically but it will take a long time. So, I'd rather put focus into the smaller posts, and who knows, maybe those posts can make it *to* the trending page with some help from us smaller members of the community.
Also, I'm under the impression that pretty much any trending post that I am really interested in will eventually be resteemed into my feed. That's how it usually seems to work, anyway :)
I do look into the trending page sometimes but only to get disappointed. Hahha just kidding.
Well, i just observed that most of the post on the trending page aren't that worthy enough of the votes, to be brutally honest, there are way lot other post that are worth reading and be voted other than those that landed the trending page.
I was educated by my friend that some of them use bidbots to get lot of votes so what I usually do is follow curator pages and just browse on my feed.
It's not that I judge those post in the trending page badly, I also have my own judgement and when I think a post is worthy to be voted, i'll definitely upvote it.
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