Most of you who follow me know that I am not a fun of bid bots and I was never one, although I used them for a while. However I see the point of using them when the situation asks for advertising and attention of the "community" for useful projects and news.
There are sometimes very good posts on the trending page and I can't say that scrolling through it is just a waste of time...every time, but not once have I saw useless investments in bid bots with hundreds of Steem to promote...nothing. Like this post here that hit the trending page as being part of a colorchallenge. Really?
Yes, really. A post made out of two pictures, low quality ones in my opinion and two sentences attached to them. PLUS the pictures seem to have been downloaded from pinterest according to smartsupport who blacklisted the user from the smartsteem services until he comes out with some quality work to promote using the service. You can check the posts comments section and see for yourself.
As I mentioned many times before I am not against using bid bots and am far from deciding what people do with their money, but investing hundreds of Steem or SBD on a colorchallenge post using pictures that are not even yours it is outrageous for the platform. Don't have enough voting power to make any sense of my flag, but this is one of the few times that I would flag something around here. However @whatsup took action and used some of his voting power to down vote the post a few hours ago. I am not a fan of flagging wars, but I see the point of flagging sometimes.
The trending page in my opinon is the business card for the Steem platform and every newbie takes a look at it when joining the platform, very often making the wrong conclusions and painting a false image in his mind about how the platform works, what the trends around here are and why not what he should do to become successful on the platform. I have also had not quite a good impression about Steem when reading posts from there at the beginning of my experience here, but luckily I discovered the "matrix" behind it.
One thing that I see as mandatory for the bid bot owners and however sells upvotes would be to review the posts objectively before using their voting power to promote any type of posting on the trending page. It might sound as a communist idea or a form of censorship, but something must come out from the founders/devs or witnesses of the platform also to make the trending page "great again". My "communist mind" for example would not allow such posts over there. It should be some kind of a filter or organic evaluation of highly voted posts before allowing them on the trending page. Otherwise that "trending" wont have any value in the future.
I, as a steemian for example, don't consider such posts and practices that are flooding the trending page healthy for us as a community at all and also not a sign of progress for Steem. I've said multiple times to myself and in previous posts also that I wont click on that "trending" again and I think it is the time to keep my promise. I love this platform, I am spending a lot of time on it and I think some changes must occur to maintain it as quality environment that not only attracts new users, but makes them stay over time also.
How do you see such '"trending posts" like the one linked in the introduction and what's your opinion about the trending page as the welcome page for Steem? What would you change or do about it and its current situation?
Thanks for your attention,
Ace
excellent content, kid! congratulations!
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Thanks.
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I rarely look at trending page. It is very hard to be fixed. Maybe is better to list by number of upvotes but upvotes can be bought also...
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It's too subjective to find the perfect solution for it, but hopefully one day we will have a quality trending page.
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I dream of a day where flagging is not considered a war. Just a negative vote. The only tools we have to keep the site clean are our flags, people should use them, and they should not be upset when they get one. (In my dream) :)
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I dream of a day when vote sellers will throw at least a glance on a post before giving the upvote and why not a day when vote selling ends as it is not in line with what Steem has to be. This way no garbage will be famous in here anymore. I have some dreams for this platform as I really like it being the one only interaction place for me(don't have facebook, nhore instagram). That's my dream :)
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I hear ya, but if they aren't looking, that still leaves it to all of us to police the site. :)
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