but we do have the Promoted tab that hardly anyone uses... but I think it would become far more used if that's where all the cool new Dapp info, etc was.

Yep. The other thing that is possible for promotion is instead of one post getting bidbots, the content for promotion gets offered to trending authors and streamers to advertise if they choose. A banner on 50 trending author's pages paying them 10 dollars for the week will get more views and engagement than one post pushed up for a day or two.

I think Trending would be $60 posts of people that get a couple of whale autovotes and Dtube... but still, that's far more in reach for a newbie than the crazy $1000 posts.

Yep, it is hard for me to estimate in my head. I am setting a a high 'lockup' percentage for starters.

I still think Haejin will still get up there... only because I don't believe that deal is about getting eyes on his work, but more about squeezing as much from the rewardpool as possible... I imagine Rancho gets weekly/monthly fiat kickbacks or similar.

Well rancho can take 10x every day as can haejin with no post and no community shit.

It would mean that whales would make that tough decision to either silently invest or actively invest... the active does more good but the silent earns more... which 'should' mean that more quality work is upvoted by active whales.

Yep, and if there is a percentage option, many will maximize 50-80 and use the rest to play.

I'd be more than happy to offer the option for silent investors to maximise... after all, they did invest sums of money to make something back on it.

Me too. At least worth a decent trial.