RE: Dear Community, Let Your Voice Be Heard | Top 20 Witness Communication
Back in the days there were a way to promote your posts by bruning STEEM (it still works, that's PROMOTED tab used for) I even promoted my last post that way. Unfortunately, in the bid bot era, it is more profitable to pay for bots to go to the top of TRENDING page, instead of burning STEEM to go to the top of PROMOTED page (IIRC it costed me $0.13 to do that).
When it comes to gamification... ugh, there's a lot to win using it properly (FYI: @arcange & @surfermarly) . Gamification is a frontend thing, and I'm proficient in the opposite side of stack, so unfortunately I'm unable to contribute (other than complaining about lack of it), but even basic solutions like @steemitboard is making a difference (famous "I don't want to be a deadfish anymore").
Great points. I even forgot about the promoted tab but I do remember using it a few times and burning a bit of steem. That shows that it totally can be done. Thanks for the reminder!
There also used to be a burn steem post that happened on a regular basis. Those are the right ideas imo :)