Human nature says that most will not be squandering their upvotes on authors who never reciprocate. The folks using these services sacrifice community votes which is why I don't recommend them for those who also wish to grow by community.
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But they are taking up nearly all of the trending right now and I guess that is important to new uses. I’ve also seen several people judge our platform because of our trending and laugh at it. I mean there’s many ways of working the issue and it’s something people can chat about and we are chatting about it here. Another thing is changing the way the trending system works making it more on comments than pay out or making it a mix of pay out comments and upvotes. This is all just discussion
Not all of those posts suck, not even the ones using upvu.
I sometimes translate the posts by oldstone and they are among the best on the platform in my opinion. However, because he uses upvu I only curate him on the rare occasion my feed is barren of good posts.
I saw someone translate a couple and it was really gibberish maybe I’ve judged them all on those. I mean just something being in another language doesn’t make it bad. But the thing is it’s early days and it could get bigger and bigger in a few ,months time
I just thought of a newer way to connect with you on this.
What you are describing is more of a front end issue I think than a chain issue. Let me explain.
I noticed that my friend Freakeo who co-runs the Blurtlatam curation project and witness has his own front end.
https://blurtlatam.com/trending/
If you compare his trending to the trending here you will notice a little bit of a difference. This tells me that each front end could modify what they find allowable or dis-allowable as far as what trends and is hot and such. I would be comfortable with front ends (the owners of that property) deciding for example that any posts that utilize upvote services, or self votes with stake large enough to hit trending do not get to hit trending.
This would respect property rights of those delegating and self voting, while would offer a view of what the owners of the front ends see as trend worthy.
On a different note, I also view this as an early time still. An example of this is I'm sure you noticed my penchant for truther themes. At the other chains it was primarily found in familyprotection, informationwar and deepdives communities.
When I first got here, other than rycharde the landscape here was bare of these topics. I waited patiently as I explored other cultures and languages and found other good people. But as I predicted, the main appeal to myself has been a growing group which will continue to grow. As more come, as each of us grow in power we will see this reflected in our loosely held communities of like mind.
Yeah that’s an interesting solution. Like I said I don’t think discussions are a problem they often Lead to solutions. I do think your right as I’ve seen some ppl share screen shots of trending and it’s 100 percent posts like the ones I showed you but then mine doesn’t look quite so bad as has a few other posts at least mixed in. Look at @outofthematrix recent screenshot for example
It was his screenshot why I questioned if he was using a translator. I saw Oldstone on his list and would hate to think just because he uses upvu and writes in a different language his posts were considered low quality. His posts are very long and display much critical thinking.
I do miss the communities sections on hive i rly rly values the communities tabs for me solved most those issues as never even went to trending it’s something I think blurt could use when bigger
I never had that issue quickly after figuring out how to be noticed by those who interested me. My follow feed is so full I really can't even keep up now.
Like without singling anyone out just picking at random this is one of blurts highest trending posts ..
Tracking, tracking, raining.
It's mother's day. The children come.
Noisy.
Grandchildren ask me to play with toys
Get it out.
It's my grandchild's birthday. I get a robot gift.
Let's play together in a single bungle.
Grandma, grandpa, excited.
Walking on the clouds
Of course manual curation still gets a range of posts but if the whole entire trending ends up like this in 6 months I just personally don’t think it looks great for new ppl joining the site, maybe they could simply change how trending is chosen.
I mean it’s just my opinion I would be disappointed to see the whole trending page this. But I’m just a tiny blogger with small stake and an opinion lol