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RE: Proof of Consent of Participants and the Danger Click-bait F'U Posts.
@smooth I agree, but im not really a believer in downvoting , if I don't like a post I just move on I don't downvote or make a stink.
if I would bring 4000 new users which are chicken lovers, would you like to see on trending only content about chickens? Do you think that would be good selling point to any potential new investors or users which are not a chicken lovers?
Downvoting is an only way to rebalance content, to actually make it more appealing for average user which is not yet on the platform.
Right now on the platform are mostly crypto-currencies enthusiasts. Bitcoin (price) was and still is risky, so you can easily assume, that most of people on steemit really like risk and everything associated with that... like betting.
I as investor do want to have this platform only for people which like betting. Betting popularity contest is even worse, its not even fair, because it can be manipulated by voters.
That's why from now on, I will flag every post which will buy votes.
and I am not afraid being threatened by steemsports anymore.
Absolutely yes! (It would not literally only be chickens any more than it is only Steemsports or has ever been only anything.)
The Trending page is statistical summary of the unpaid posts with the highest stake-weighted voting. Nothing more. If the community grows rapidly (4000 active users would likely grow it by a factor of five or so), then whereever the growth (and interests of the user base, as well as potential growth) is greatest should and likely will dominate Trending. I don't care if that is sports or chickens or pizzagate or boobies.
Trending is not an Editor's Picks page or a page that shows the variety of all topics that are being discussed on the site regardless of popularity. You're looking for a different page (that may not currently exist)
What is important is not what is on Trending, nor that Trending is a featureless blob of all sorts of posts that are approved by @noisy. What is important is that it can, and does, change and adapt to the shifting interests of the, hopefully growing, user base and stakeholders.
I thought this too but I was corrected. The popularity contests were not judged by the voting. They were judged by an external poll.
rize chikun!
HAHAHA
I certainly would prefer that to the F'U approach. No disagreement there!