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RE: Transforming Content Promotion on Steemit.com Through Better Use of the "Promoted" Functionality
There is actually some work being done on this:
https://github.com/steemit/condenser/pull/2908
TLDR: Mix in promoted posts between the trending posts shown on the trending page.
I've looked at that PR, and that's also what I understood. I asked @elear to help me understand it better, but he was busy. Since I can't fully understand the code, how would the two be balanced? Just one promoted every X trending in the feed? Some kind of formula to calculate some "average promotional score" to organize these?
I haven't really reviewed the details. Once the implementation is put in place though, then we are free to tweak the algorithm for how to choose which posts get shown. Nothing is set in stone :)
I am just going to continue lurking and hoping you smart math and code people figure out some way to solve the promotional issue we're faced with now.
Sounds good :)