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RE: Buying Advertising and Promotion discussion
Thanks for the explanation. I guess I will be close to impossible to get all to agree as long as there is possible profit by doing it otherwise.
For "exposure-only" there's already the "promoted" feed, listing posts that burnt SBD via @null. So making users look into the promoted tab instead of hot or trending would already go into the direction you proposed, I guess?
Or, sliding promoted content through the promoted feature into trending for a price would work well as well. If promoted runs a bidding system (which I think it kind of does). Bid your way into the top spot and appear in trending in the first 5 posts. 2nd spot in the top 10 etc. (arbitrary numbers). It could have a feature that for lower amounts you could buy into a tag trending position.
This would take away the need for bidbots to get into trending and burn the SBD in @null
It wouldn't get rid of the bidbots but there would then be a clear separation of the motivations of why to promote the posts. Bidbot users would only have the claim of profit. I have no problem with people making profit but, be honest about it and don't hide behind the various masks claiming for engagement.