IDEA FOR STEEMIT (THIS IS GENIUS) - Pay STEEM to be top of the "Trending Tab" Not The "Promoted" One
I just had a genius idea. Here it is. Its simple but genius. Just check it out.
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO BURN STEEM SO YOUR POST GETS MORE HITS.
HOW DO WE DO THAT?
When someone pays for steem promotion a fraction of what they pay should go directly to their payout. This will make their post get more hits and upvotes by holding them with a higher ranking post. This will give people a reason to BURN steem inorder to EARN steem...
For ex. If I pay 10$ for promo, $1 (or whatever fraction youd like) would be adding to my payout directly -
So my post would start out at $1.
THE REST WOULD BE BURNED
This idea would activate a DEFLATION MECHANISM
YES THERE IS A GOD
It would be great to be able to propagate your post accross everyone's feed. The point of promoting is visibility, the more you pay the more visible your post should be.
For example you pay $1 and your post is propagated to 100 steemians, then you pay $10 and it is propagated to 1000 steemians. Promotion should be a way for new users to promote their work but as you said the promoted tab doesn't work, it's a mess.
Yea its worthless. The "promoted" tab does nothing for the users. This idea is a much better way to "pay for promo". No body is going to go out of their way to curate a post that is directly under a "promo" tab. Its currently the eye-sore of the website.
Degrading the trending tab to another broken promotion landfill can't be the solution to this. At least that's my opinion.
Thanks
I think allowing anyone to add STEEM 'directly' to the current post reward total would serve the same purpose, and also be of benefit to curators. People can essentially 'invest' in their own post and kick something back to curators .. which is a win win win. I posted about it a few times months back, but .. alas .. zzzZZzzZZ ... someone said that they 'had already discussed that', or some such bs. :) Promote is kaputski and should be yanked for 'something' else .. anything else.