Fixing Steemit With Baby Steps Part 4: Hot and Trending Tabs
This is somewhat of an extension of part two but I now have a few more things I want to add.
I never click on the hot or trending tabs.
I'm always surprised that so many people are using these worthless tabs. I can never seem to find any quality content and them and the trending page is supposed to be the pinnacle of quality content on this site. Do you guys realize how sad this is? The highest paid posts are simply the highest paid posts because they have visibility and whales have a statistical tendency to upvote themselves.
It is seriously insane how much of an unfair advantage big investors have on this site. You have to be a whale to be a witness. You have to be a whale to get on hot and trending. You have to invest your own money to get on promoted. The more Steem Power you have the more interest you get. If Steemit wants to thrive, some of these unnecessary advantages need to end. The Vault describes the best way to separate the 75% blogging reward pool from the 15% interest reward pool.
Extremely talented people need to be able to go from minnow to dolphin within a few months here or we aren't doing our jobs right. The more rags to riches story we have the more viral we will become. Talk talk talk complain complain complain... how do we get there?
Fix Hot and Trending or add new tabs all together.
- You should not appear on the trending tab more than once a week.
- Users with > 1 qualifying post should get to choose which one appears.
- Users with more than one qualifier should get a multiplier and show up higher.
- Users with > 1 qualifying post should get to choose which one appears.
- Posts that decline payout should receive a huge booster multiplier.
- Payout decline should be seen as an investment for exposure.
- This mechanic makes it more worth it to spend voting power on declined payout.
- The multiplier could be as high as x10
- Payout decline should be seen as an investment for exposure.
- Accounts that sell their votes should be flagged and weight reduced to 0.
- Another multiplier should be added to posts that are getting paid out more than average.
- Example: if you normally get paid $5.00 per post a $10.00 post would have x2 multiplier.
- Accounts that post more than once a day should only count the highest post.
- Example: if you normally get paid $5.00 per post a $10.00 post would have x2 multiplier.
It absolutely blows my mind that very few people are trying to solve this problem. This isn't a brain buster. Let's get something done. (Kudos to @greer184 and projects like @qfilter for addressing this issue.)
Steemit Virtual Government
Part 1: The Vault
Part 2: Improved Filters
Part 3: Resteeming
Let's reduce complaints and move forward in whatever you are doing.
Some of these ideas are interesting solutions to fixing these pages and reducing the amount of repetitive users at the top. Reducing the weight of bots would require an active blacklist and there would be ways to get around it. But other than that, some cool ideas that would satisfy most of the whales and help newer users out.
I don't think Steemit will ever adopt something like this, but maybe future competitors will. Content diversity is a good idea to keep things fresh at the top and give everyone something of interest.
Honestly the biggest issue here is how flagging is a joke of a system. I stayed away from that topic in this post because I've already talked about it multiple times.
Also, you're right about bots, they can't be stopped there will always be a way around trying to stop them. Better to work around them than try to attack them directly.
You have a point
I do see your point. Some things that you are talking about are beginning to become possible with more time as a platform. There was virtually no data obviously when it started a few years ago, now there is at least some kind of baseline to go off, though not a very long time. All of that could be possible as time rolls on. That also produces a very nice niche of forward thinkers on steem that create quite a competitive advantage on their posts.