RE: Proposed new section/method for seggregating posts starting with the trending page
I'm always mildly amused by suggestions to fix certain aspects like this. Let me clarify that. I'm not amused in any way about the suggestions themselves (they are all great ideas), I'm amused that so many of the suggestions I keep seeing for the months that I've been here are things I created in about 1 week in my new steem aggregator (steemfeed.social)*. It's still in a pretty beta state, but it highlights that these requests aren't technically hard to implement. It's just a matter of steemit finding the hours to do it. When I first got here I assumed that steemit would be imminently introducing all these sorts of things (including notifications; which, by the way, I've created browser plugins for ;) ), so my steemfeed project has only ever been a half-hearted effort, if that. But if I had of known that after many months this sort of stuff would still be missing, I would have focussed on steemfeed more and put out a more polished full on front end (with voting/commenting etc). As it is, because I only have limited hours myself, I am devoting most of my time this week to porting my notification plugins to iPhone and Android, and then moving on to another project that will hopefully earn me some money so I can continue funding these projects. All still with the (mistaken?) assumption that steemit will finally implement some of these requests.
*(although with my reputation filters they successively weed out the lower reps; but they could be easily modified to do the reverse and successively weed out the higher reps)
Hey, thanks for your comment. As you may know, there is a difference between a proof-of-concept site and a live site that supports a full range of features and more than a few users such as steemit. Anyway, you could help build these features and win a bounty, and during the process you will get noticed and have other good things coming your way. Just curious, how would you better filter the trending/hot/new posts by reputation? Also if you have other good ideas to fix the trending page, you could make a post about them on Utopian to participate. Cheers :)
To be honest, I haven't thought about those pages specifically, only an overall approach. When I made the filters I didn't really anticipate your point that higher reputation doesn't often equal better quality on those pages. I was operating under a general principle that higher rep content is on average likely to be better than lower rep content. I'd have to think about it some more, and I'd need to find out exactly how reputation is calculated (apologies if you already mentioned it in your post; I'm so busy coding I have to skim read long posts). Do the extra votes that these common accounts get by constantly being on the trending page contribute to their higher rep? If so, without any qualifiers, the rep system might need reworking (or an alternative concurrent system implemented). This will have to be a project for another day for me. My head is esploding with other projects at the moment ;). I wish you luck, though, in getting Steemit to implement some change. Hopefully an upgraded UI is coming in the not too distant future.
Yeah..there are a lot of ideas but for the moment we have to work with the current API. @noisy mentioned of an upcoming update on that but I don't have a timeframe. About reputation, yes, in general, for every upvote you get your reputation grows. And the problem we are faced is that on the trending page are mostly the same few hundred people, which stagnates growth overall. Thanks for the support, take care.