I'd upvote this. But I just bled out all my power on myself! haha kidding, on others.
You share some very valid points and I thank you for taking the time to do so.
When I log onto blurt, I have it set to go right to my feed. So I never see the trending page. Is it possible for the foundation...I mean the founders to have someone just recreate the tending page, based of comments. So post like this with the most engagement can come showoff ummmm.... how engaging the platform is. I think that would not only look good, it would be interesting to new comers checking out the site for the first time.
I mentioned to ultravioletmag a little time ago that if one looks at trending on my friend Freakeao front end Blurtlatam it looks a little different than blurt blot.
https://blurtlatam.com/trending/
So it seems to me that the front ends (who own the front end) can design one that would reflect what they would wish to see as trending without violating anyone elses property rights. They could for example perhaps have a rule in that those who self vote or delegate to a VTS don't get on trending. Although I do think that would push some quality posts out. I mentioned earlier that Oldstone writes some fantastic stuff. I vote for him on t he rare occasions my feed is low. He would actually be part of my feed if he didn't delegate to upvu.
As much as I've come off as an ass. I'm still happy I wrote this post, apologies to @megadrive still. Point is I and many others have learned a whole lot, including what you write here. So even though you are repeating yourself, this is new information to many including myself. So, I thank you for that sincerely. It's bolstered big confidence in my investment and the management here, and there for I just bought and powered up more.