In all honesty, I'm surprised it wasn't given some kind of ability to reward. I'd like to think that someone thought it would be best not to, though, since everything else we do here is based on upvotes or stake weight.

I was told this early on as the reason as to why it was never implemented.

I know the reputation ranking is considered to be broken by most, but having resteems a part of that would make sense to me, if we were to ever find value in reps. Having the resteems dictate what's on trending makes more sense to me, too. We'd just have to have an answer for the alt account issue.

Yes, to bad the rep. system was never better utilized. I agree RS is a signal the user finds the content valuable even if they don't want to reward it with money they at least could make it a signal it has virality to it and treat it as such.

I don't know all the ramifications of any of that. I'm sure someone could point them out. I'd rather, though, if any of it is a good idea, or could work, how do we get there? :)

Well, maybe we can convince the power's that be to help us develop something around this 😄 . Good discussion and thanks for replying!