I thought the Proposal System was removing a percentage of rewards away from actual content producers, to pay folks for their Steem contributions. I thought those ads around help pay the bills, which alleviates some selling pressure. Preaching to the choir is a terrible idea. You'd never see Youtube's development information on their trending page, you'd see a variety of content meant to appeal to a wide audience. It's great that people do things for Steem, but we now have a proposal system and the authors already took a hit because of that. It's unwise to push actual content authors away just so we can sit here preaching to the choir. Actual content is what helps get clicks on those ads. A mix would be ideal. It's too bad we didn't have an 'announcements' tab where people could go to get their fill of new developments.
Yes! Trending page should simply reflect what the community values the most.
Some people never have enough.
Well, I'm not against folks earning for contributing. There just needs to be a balance. Without that, there's not much to motivate someone to contribute what they feel is worthwhile. All content producers need to know their product has the potential to draw in outside eyes, and those eyes could eventually be distracted by ads, and those ads help pay the bills, and those bills being paid allows everyone to own a token that's worth something. All of it matters. If I see a video with people joking around and it has nothing to do with Steem, that matters. A song matters. Science article. My posts! Your posts! It all adds value. Entertainment, in general, is big business; and that entertainment can be anything.
Exactly my friend.
I'm sick and tired of posts about steem. We already have had the trending page like today and it didn't help much.
And I'm afraid that some people just don't want to understand that. They profit in both cases. They can post and run the bot.
History does prove it didn't help much in the past. History also tells us, in times of change, there's more talk about the platform. So in all fairness I believe it's a bit early to begin these often pointless trending page debates all while hoping things begin to balance out over time, in order to gain the benefits a balance brings with it, down the road. It has also been difficult for some folks to understand the importance of that balance. Some of them did provide the tools to do a lot of damage in the past. That's the past though and I can only hope lessons were learned.