I think people are drawn to "rankings;" just look at sports.

So the idea of simply renaming "Trending" and instead call it "Richlist" makes a lot of sense. "Richlist" simply means here's a list of the top valued posts on the site and makes no claims as to whether they are good, bad or indifferent OR whether they got their by bot vote, whale circlejerk or any other means. But they allow — perhaps even more so — people to readily see "who's getting paid how much."

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