I have an idea for Content Discovery that doesn't involve the trending page directly but rather a way to funnel the kind of trending material you would want into your feed.

What if you create Focused resteem service based on different topics. Ok you are probably already about to leave hearing the word resteem, but just listen for a bit.

The problem today if you follow a resteeming service is that everything that is sent there get resteemed. That means number 1 it's A LOT of post that will drown your feed. Number 2 you are perhaps interested in only 2 percent of the topics posted there.

This creates a problem where people pay to have their post resteemed and the promise of exposure to thousand of followers. The fact is that it's probably only a few hundreds of real people that might possibly see the post and they are probably going to be in the same boat as you hoping to be found by someone a little bit higher up in the Steemit ecosystem.

So let's see how it might look if a focused Resteemed service is made. Lets make an example. Resteem Focused Steemit.
So the rule is that everyone can send in their post if they think It is good enough. The cost would be 1 Steem dollar. Each day only 5 people are choosen and resteemed. This means that you might pay 1 SBD but not get resteemed, but if your content is good it can be choosen and resteemed.

Now hopefully there will be a lot of people following Focused resteem Steemit. Because they are interested in this topic and they want to see the best content themed Steemit, which is unbiased of how much SP the person has that wrote the post, but instead it's based on the quality of the content.

OCD is already doing a great job to find and bring up good content to the Surface. However, the content is mixed and not focused. And thus we might not want to follow it.

With this kind of set up u could choose to follow a theme based account that will funnel the kind of material you want to your feed while in the same time it allows fish of all sizes to swim onto your feed as long as the material is good.