If people would vote on the value of posts on the trending page, the majority of the posts would be raided with "downvotes" which makes bid bots less profitable. Maybe a post on the trending page is only worth $50 to most people but it is overinflated to be $250. Having a more neutral voting appearance would make most people "downvote" the content (which thereby uses their stake to return steem back to the reward pool) and now that can go to better content.
By the way, what solution are you proposing?
educate people on education, economics, psychology, sociology, throw some history, hope for better judgement, so we don't keep running into this wall at least ...
out here you don't get to vote on all content, the stake reflects your stake in the system, so you can't affect the whole system, only the part your stake reflects, so most people wouldn't have a say in the trending page, as they haven't for the most part, there are good whales, there are bad whales, people act differently, I don't see any solutions, I was out of here for some time now, as I said in the other comment, it's been a persistent problem, lots of things factor into it, I don't see a simple solution.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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