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RE: Steem post promotion: Past, present, and future
Another interesting distinction is that with the /promoted posts, the same person can promote the same post multiple times. As a result, "bidding wars" would sometimes develop between people who were competing to stay at the top.
For that reason, high stakes curators might want to vote late in the payout window, in order to let people bid the articles as high as possible. Once a whale vote is thrown, the bidding stops, I guess.
I've not tested - are the bids added together, so a bid of $1 on top of an already $1 bid would set it at $2?
My thinking was perhaps the opposite - once a whale vote is thrown in, there's more "money in the pot" to bid even more (or invest that money in their next post).
IIRC, yes, that's how it works.
I agree that a whale vote would lead to future promotion, but on the present post, I guess it depends if they're motivated by visibility or by rewards. If they're seeking visibility, then you could be right.
It's been interesting watching the activity over the past few days - snice sc01's comment. There are already over 300 posts that have @null set as a 25% beneficiary but almost no posts that have "promoted" their posts via some SBD burning.
What this says to me is that people are using the #burnsteem25 hashtag solely to get the attention of sc01, knowing that if the vote doesn't come, they've not "sacrificed" anything.
I continue to watch with interest 👀
I agree. The "out of wallet" requirement seems to be a big barrier to entry.
Any idea where to find documentation on how to write a browser plugin? I'd like to have something that highlights posts in my feed if they have a null beneficiary set or if they have a non-zero promotion cost...
I can't imagine that it would be very hard, but I have no idea where to start.
Update:
I figured out how to create a browser extension and use it to find the beneficiary and Promotion Cost strings. Now I just need to figure how to do something useful with it.
Ah, I was about to reply and just saw your update.
If it's any help, I've got a webpage hosted that shows all of the active authors/posts which have beneficiaries set, what percentage and the pending payout. I don't want to share it publicly but if you have Discord, I can share it with you there - the-gorilla#4289
It sounds like you're half way there. You should be able to navigate the DOM from one of those strings and implement some inline styles - you might not even need to do any DOM hopping and just replace the string that you've found with the exact same string + some inline styling.
I wanted to work on this plugin so I can make "promoted" posts stand out visually in other feeds besides /promoted and #burnsteem25. It's interesting that it has the opposite effect in #burnsteem25, too. It's easy to tell if someone forgot the beneficiary setting.
It's looking good...
I think that "forgot" should be in quotes 😅
Not quite what I'm going for. There's a recursion thing going on that I need to work through. But, I'm getting closer. ;-)
Update: And closer still: