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RE: What is the #1 change needed for Steem - Win $20+ upvote
Right on, I missed where you said we get to pick what we feel like promoting.
I thought you meant whatever was trending just went on our pages. I was getting ready to tell you that you were cut off from the kool-aid.
It wouldn't work if spam showed up inside our posts on it's own. I mentioned in the post I wrote about how clicking the banner link to these promotions doubles as a vote to the post hosting the banner and explained the logic behind that in the comment section. Since we'd be selecting from promoted posts, we'd want to select something we know our followers might enjoy, because if they click, we earn. We'd also have to be careful because I mentioned how competition will mean incentives, so if everyone gets lazy and selects the top ads in the list out of convenience, their share of the ad revenue when the promoted post pays out would be far less than if they curated quality ads found further down the list. You know how some DAPPs take a 25% cut? This Market DAPP could do the same, but disperse the 25% to those hosting the ad on their blog. So there's two ways to earn ad revenue now as a blogger, plus the promoters earn more, and those promoting get far more potential eyes on their promotions; and to top it off, the trending page goes back to the legitimate content producers instead of being hijacked by unmarked and misleading advertisements. Every post that uses bots is a form of paid programming. It doesn't matter what's inside the post. The bots are used for promotion, they say, so therefore the posts become promotion, advertisements, and paid programming. Naturally, that sort of material receives low ratings, which is why people can't seem to understand why the trending page now is in such rough shape. Every newspaper has a good cover, with actual content. Turn the page, find more content and ads within. This model works for Youtube, magazines, newspapers, television; everything. Steemit is the only place doing it backwards.
Sorry for the wall of text, I'm on a tight schedule.