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RE: The Trending Page is 100% Well-Established Users
I think it's inevitable when there's a 'club' of big users who always support each other. They will make much more than most of us can on a post and that gets them trending. We do have a rising 'dolphin' class who should be gaining influence, but whales win every time. The Steemit community is still very small. If it can scale up then we may see more variety there, but there is a feedback loop where trending posts get more votes. I'm less likely to vote on a post that already has a big reward as I'd rather vote up other good posts that are not doing so well. I'm not too worried about my curation rewards.
Digg had precisely the same kind of 'club'. It is commonly agreed that the power-user collaboration drove the exodus from Digg.com. Unlike that site, all of our power-users are financially invested in the platform though, it is in their financial interest to mitigate the impact of such a phenomenon.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptobarry/the-rise-and-fall-of-digg-com-a-lesson-for-steemit
People have to choose between short term gains and the good of the platform. There's a danger that some new site will come along that offers something better. I think the ideas of Steemit are sound, but people are generally the weak point.