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RE: The State of the @NoNamesLeftToUse Address: Another Month Down With Some Time Off In Between For Thinking Purposes
I learned a lot from your perspective on trending, thanks. I have been thinking of what can be done with trending and people that want to promote using bots. The downvotes have been doing their work. I know there is common ground in there somewhere if we strike a nice balance. Amazing art btw, really liked "Reginald"
These systems can all work together instead of against each other. I like how the tribes do it. Promoted content mixed in with actual content, and the ads are clearly marked. I'd prefer to see the ads inside posts though, and actual content posts hitting top slots to bring in the eyes. Then the one promoting would be in several slots at once instead of in one slot on a page with a ruined reputation. Advertising is done to get eyes but each ad on the trending page pushes eyes away. The more they do it, the fewer eyes they'll get. If this place was booming, that paid vote business model becomes useless the exact moment it became as successful as it possibly can. If 1000 advertisers all wanted that slot at the same time, they'd buy two seconds worth of "visibility" and then blend in with the rest of the crowd nobody wants to see. It can't even scale and pushes the product that actually brings in their market away. Drives me nuts, man.
I like Reginald as well. These characters I produce are becoming my favorite thing to work on, and before I came here, I didn't work on characters at all.
It is a simple fix sort of, if it has a bot vote it is Promoted, and should be under the Promoted Tab, not the trending Tab. There are four "Steemit Feed" tabs:
Trending
New
Hot
Promoted
I am not sure what the other front ends have for tabs.
Currently at the top of the Trending Tab when I look is:
I still very rarely look at the trending, more so this past week since the down vote trend to see if it is getting better to see actual Trending content, but nope still mostly advertisements. The next four on the list:
All of them Advertising even the Curangel is an advertisement. So not any better at all for actual Trending content other than trending advertisement content. No Stories, no Art, no Travel, no entertaining type content at all, just advertisements.
I believe that too... I didn't believe it before the fork.