Excellent post and important topic!
I never look at the trending posts exactly for this reason. Any upvote on them just favors the already well rewarded posts. If @peakd could create the opposite, e.g. posts with hardly any rewards but of a certain length or level of interaction, that would be great.
And yes, I check in the meantime regularly the KE-ratio (with this tool) of users I don´t know before I give any bigger upvote.
An additional but somewhat provocative idea could be a regular (e.g. daily) automatically generated (according to some rules) list of potentially over-rewarded posts and users with some free downvoting mana could scroll and pick some for downvoting - I know that many are afraid of retaliation downvotes but maybe some whales/orcas could interact or be ready to act against retaliation downvotes by upvotes to those brave quality curators. Just brainstorming.
The rules of what is considered as over-rewarded are of course tricky, but the level of repetitiveness vs. original content and a lack of comments in comparison to the rewards could be a first indication.
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I would like to see this too! I would say a certain lengt and level of interaction. And also a couple of hours old.
That's good! I think it is quite a hassle now. It would be nice if that was visible with some other metrics like engagement next to the rather useless rep level.
This... or they could work together to do the downvoting themselves.
If there is a group of whales/orca's that minimizes the rewards on a post, chances of retaliation would be minimal I think.
But for now whales often upvote posts that already have large rewards. So there needs to come a change in habits.
That is an excellent suggestion and a really positive way to approach things which is unlikely to cause disappointment, argument or retaliation.
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