It is hard to audit a trending page on Steemit because there is no centralized authority. Perhaps it would be better to ban all posts whose votes were bought from bots in the trending section. That way we could see what is trending among users. Steemit might make bots register that they are bots so they can keep track of the bot votes.
I almost feel like we have never experienced the trending page really being an accurate display of an actual "trending" page. Which in some respects is sad. Back in the day it was just "Whale Picks" ....... now it is just "Promoted" basically.
It honestly wouldn't be that hard to have an actual trending page. It would just need to take a larger set of factors into account. Views, stake weight, number of upvotes, number of comments that aren't flagged .......etc. It still could get gamed to a certain extent but It think it would be more accurate than what we saw.
Interesting enough though since Trending is the first page that shows up when people come to the site and it is all promoted maybe Steemit INC didn't want to change it because it was driving demand to SBD which seemed to pull STEEM along as well.
If the message they want to send is post crap and get a big payday those new people that sign up are going to be disappointed. You are right though, it could be changed easily by taking into account other factors. When more and more people realize their is no demand for SBD other than fake demand the price of SBD and Steem will be corrected.
I feel like the biggest actual demand for STEEM is people just trying to trade buying low and selling high and then people powering up but to really make a big effect on that it has to be people with deep pockets trying to get out ahead of the lower level power levels. Like powering up 100,000 STEEM and stuff like that.
That is insane, people who compare the steemit trending page with other social medai pages they are useless, selfish and much more..
I hope steemit can take very legal action with these people who doing such a useless practices..
It is hard to audit a trending page on Steemit because there is no centralized authority. Perhaps it would be better to ban all posts whose votes were bought from bots in the trending section. That way we could see what is trending among users. Steemit might make bots register that they are bots so they can keep track of the bot votes.
Not a bad idea, probably will never happen though
I almost feel like we have never experienced the trending page really being an accurate display of an actual "trending" page. Which in some respects is sad. Back in the day it was just "Whale Picks" ....... now it is just "Promoted" basically.
It honestly wouldn't be that hard to have an actual trending page. It would just need to take a larger set of factors into account. Views, stake weight, number of upvotes, number of comments that aren't flagged .......etc. It still could get gamed to a certain extent but It think it would be more accurate than what we saw.
Interesting enough though since Trending is the first page that shows up when people come to the site and it is all promoted maybe Steemit INC didn't want to change it because it was driving demand to SBD which seemed to pull STEEM along as well.
If the message they want to send is post crap and get a big payday those new people that sign up are going to be disappointed. You are right though, it could be changed easily by taking into account other factors. When more and more people realize their is no demand for SBD other than fake demand the price of SBD and Steem will be corrected.
I feel like the biggest actual demand for STEEM is people just trying to trade buying low and selling high and then people powering up but to really make a big effect on that it has to be people with deep pockets trying to get out ahead of the lower level power levels. Like powering up 100,000 STEEM and stuff like that.
if trending page comes only with genuine up votes I mean no bots at all then the real true content will be surfaced on trending page.
That would be nice to see
That is insane, people who compare the steemit trending page with other social medai pages they are useless, selfish and much more..
I hope steemit can take very legal action with these people who doing such a useless practices..
lol