You want to invite big corporations to come in and drop thousands of dollars into the Steem market and start blasting the top trending spot with ads for condoms?
Although I do think this is a pretty damn neat idea and it does help combat others profiting from others work under the guise of help I can't help but think that unless this has been in the development pipeline for a while and all possible angles have been addressed this could end up maybe being too hasty of an implementation..
How long before some eccentric billionaire comes on here and subjects us to an entire trending page of goatse and getting rick rolled? Or before we see automobile manifacturers plastering our trending page with their latest and greatest sets of wheels..
Pandoras box got opened I think... I'm really interested to see how this all ends up working out. Tons of positives here but also invites some pretty devious stuff and the possibility of ending up like facebook where every other post is some sponsored bullshit I don't want to see.
The trending page and promoted page are different. Even if someone pays tons to promote a post, it will not change how trending it is unless it starts getting lots of upvotes. It would just show up high on the promoted page.