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.