Go take a look at the Blurt Trending page. It is ruled by VTS.
I think they should not be allowed on the trending page. Normal users do not get a chance to reach the trending page ever.
It takes more than 1000 Blurt to reach the trending page. Good posts do not get a chance.
Can't we get a front end, that can bring tags up like TV stations. and we get the top trending posts from a varietys of catagories, front and center on the trending page. While encouraging vote traders to tag their posts Vote4vote or something....sort the iduvts from the not so iduvts and fix the trending page.
This is a good observation, currently the Spanish community maintains an alternative version blurtlatam.com and we could consult the programmer to see if this is possible.
What you said is quite right.
By such services voting is "centralized" because 1000 accounts give their power to one super account. How many posts can one person read and how many can 1000 people read? As you rightly pointed out this especially affects new users who will never get a vote. Without new users, blockchain faces stagnation or death.