I just hope you do a better job of judging quality than other vote sellers. I want to see Trending full of good posts and not over-promoted junk. I see you had to buy your way in there ;)
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I just hope you do a better job of judging quality than other vote sellers. I want to see Trending full of good posts and not over-promoted junk. I see you had to buy your way in there ;)
Hey @steevc. I totally understand your concerns. The junk loaded Trending is a plague for the platform. Assessing the quality of a content is a challenge, especially if you have many to assess. As we develop, we will try to build some tools to help us in that task. Such tools are already in the pipeline, we are looking for building an integrated tool in our admin dashboard to help with:
There will also be random checks on user blogs and we will cancel membership of any authors breaking our rules and quality requirements.
Hopefully, Steemit Inc will also develop new features to help with reversing the current trend.
If you could do this transparently and still have it work, it would actually be useful. Bad actors will eventually figure out fragile but hidden algorithms. It's generally not seen as a good form of security to hide implementation details. Good IP, but not necessarily the most trustworthy.
The pre-scoring is just a first layer to help the human being that will actually perform the upvote actions. We don't want a fully automated upvote process as as you said, it's not necessarily the most trustworthy.
Thank you for your valuable input.