Trending page should be a little bit harder to see

There is a downside to this. Posts with large(r) payouts need to be seen so abuse or risks of abuse can be detected. Yesterday I saw the post for the iOS app and it had already reached over $10000 after several hours with no verification whatsoever. I only saw this post because it was on the front page.

It was not an author or topic I would have followed (the author was brand new anyway). After I posted a comment about the lack of verification, the post dropped as low as $1000. In this case, the author of the post then provided convincing verification and the post ended up climbing back to around $10000. But it could just as easily been the case that the post was a fraud (and there have been some high profile frauds on Steemit) and was only caught before a $10000 payout because it was highly visible.

A counterargument might be that if the post isn't visible then it wouldn't get such high rewards in the first place, but I question whether that is a good thing either. Once the post was verified, people found it worthwhile and voted it back up. Having worthwhile posts not get rewarded for lack of visibility also seems bad.

I don't know the answers here, just that there isn't one easy answer to all these issues.