Just a half vote. Free voting power!
I think people are far more likely to get attention using the promotion feature on Peakd.
If I was at the helm I'd give content creators their own slot, and allow them to choose a promoted post from a list of promoted posts. They select before publishing. Then give the content creator a cut of whatever revenue the promoted post generates for hosting the ad on their blog. If several select that ad, they'd get a smaller share, but it would be seen by more people so could potentially be rewarded more, increasing the value of that share. Or rather than burning tokens, those tokens could be shared with those hosting the ad. If someone wanted to be near the top of the list of ads to select from, they'd pay more.
The reason I'd do it this way is because the trending page is only one page hosting the promoted post. Having it placed within several blog posts increases the chances of that ad being seen, because it's in several places at once. And the reason I'd have people select ads is so they don't end up with something they wouldn't want to promote on their blogs. That would also help prevent abusive ads(promoted posts) from appearing anywhere.
I actually wrote about this approach during the bidbot era, many many years ago. Even suggested clicking the ad (promoted post) would act just like the vote button, giving the one hosting the ad a vote. That way you're not shooting yourself in the foot for hosting an ad and potentially driving eyes elsewhere before they get a chance to support your work.
That would create an internal ad market and source of ad revenue and provide those who need it the ability to get a metric shit-ton of exposure. Plus create demand for HIVE and even provide frontends with a percentage and therefore a source of revenue.
Far more effective and efficient than randomly stumbling into a 2x reward post like this and voting. Wouldn't you rather have a Holozing ad tucked neatly inside 1000 posts? Keep in mind many don't even look at the trending page. They might be browsing communities, their own feeds, other frontends and so on. Or say there's a proposal you support and want others to support it, and they paid a bit to promote their proposal post. You could then place that post in front of your viewership alongside your normal content and the one asking for funds doesn't have to annoy people with spam.
Creates endless opportunities.
I believe reddit and twitter do this too.
For zing, we have something interesting in mind I will get to in another post, idea partly stolen from old bitcointalk.
Far better than turning the trending page into a page full of tricks and gimmicks and majority of voting power going to the shittiest content available. Bidbots 2.0 lol. Became a joke then. Buying "visibility" turned into nobody looking at the site.
Yeah but during the bid bot era we didn't have the 25% downvote mana, hence I wonder how it would've played out with this method.
Author giving out too much of the post rewards to curators hence they voted it too high and the content is garbage? Downvote.
Author is promoting a new project on hive, something worthy to have on trending and giving 10-20% extra rewards to curators, take my vote.
etc
I get it, but even for something worthwhile, it only creates the illusion of the project being popular. So they go forward with their big idea and the next announcement is crickets, or nobody is using their stuff. Then they have to resort to tricks and gimmicks again, only to once again receive the "this is such a great idea and truly inspires me to continue" comments, but nobody is using their offering.
Or the project might look legit but it's phony. All they want is attention. I'll never forget one rapper dude buying votes nonstop then insisting those were his fans. Dude was convinced he was the shit because he was "trending."
Organic approval and support is important. Helps gauge whether you're on the right track or not. I've been using Threads but won't buy premium and one of the main reasons is because it comes with that fake approval in the form of "more rewards."
I totally get where you're coming from. And I also know we won't be seeing a more productive method of promoting any time soon. Not arguing. Just sharing my perspective. Did people vote for this post because they like the idea or because they got a free lunch? Regardless of what the answer is, it still created a situation where you can only wonder.