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RE: What Should Be Trending At Steemit? + Jerry Controversy Of The Day (Bonus)
I agree and I think a big part of the problem is the Trending page itself. If you use revenue generated as the metric for what's trending, or at least for what is highlighted by whatever label, then that incentivizes looking at the platform as an earning competition to be seen.
So if you've been on here long enough to have a lot of followers, or had a large community elsewhere you could bring here with you, you can get your content seen without bots. But if you're new and starting not knowing anyone here, it is very hard to get your content seen without bots. The way posts are selected to be shown to people who aren't already followers is the issue that I think most needs addressing. Do that and the bots will naturally lose their influence.
Totally agree. I think there's way too much reliance on the upvote button. Anywhere outside of Steemit curation is handled through a sharing mechanism, which in our case is the resteem. So, I don't know how that might work, or if it even could. When/if Communities shows up, I wonder how that will affect the trending/hot pages simply from the standpoint that the existing tag system will be modified in someway.
It's amazing how, even with recent updates and more communication over the last two weeks, we still don't know a whole lot of how things will ultimately be.