If more people click the promoted tab, it will gain some value so that people may promote their posts more. But this is a bandaid effort that won't solve the underlying issue of promoted posts. The implementation of them on steemit.com is not close to optimal.
The way posts are "promoted" was flawed from the start, and there has been no improvement since. People don't click a page named "ads" on other sites. There needs to be some way promoted posts reach people not necessarily looking for them.
An obvious method of giving advantage to promoted posts doesn't even appear to be used. I thought this was actually how it worked this whole time: the promotion amount could be added to the potential payout to rank those posts above posts having only a potential payout less than the promoted+potential $ sum. I don't see your post sitting with +20 here, but I should: https://steemit.com/trending/steem
I voiced these concerns when the promoted tab was first introduced, and a few times since, but I don't like being a broken record either.
I agree 100%!
I don't know how exactly they will implement it, but I think that is their plan. This is mainly just suggesting we work with what we have in the meantime :)
They could put a promoted section after the actual post but before the comments
the posts that would appear would be based on the tags of both posts. It would work as a related section as well. That could help smaller authors and ones looking to get bigger more quickly.
I agree, that would help. I think they might be planning to add something like that. This is more something we could do in the meantime.
True, although I think a beta version of this would help out a lot and would be easy enough to make.
This update is the first step towards that. They are working on it :)
https://github.com/steemit/steemit.com/issues/66
;) good idea
https://steemit.com/steemit/@blueorgy/do-we-need-to-do-more-for-our-promoted-content
I fully agree that this would be an obvious tweak that would make promotion much more efficient. I assume it would only require a few lines of code to numerically ad promoted amount to the potential payout. The promoted amount should then still go to @null to reduce debt, but until then it should of course be used to increase visbibility of the respective post outside of the cage of an promoted tab. For transparency reasons the promoted amount should still be listed separately in the ´potiential payout´ - drop-down.