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RE: Live with complete freedom, the way to make it big on Steemit!
I think part of the rewarding pool should go to the most viewed and/or replied posts. Because it reveals how interesting to the platform it was.
The problem with that particular rule – and I would generally support it under other circumstances – is that there is no way to determine the difference between a human looking at a post and I bought looking at a post. We already know that bots can post new content and comments; we see them doing it all the time. Driving the reward pool to "most viewed" and/or "most replied" would drive the bot swarms to sell views contentless commentary, which is already happening to some degree thanks to mutualism groups who vote up each other's comments, either via automation or manual.
Again, I think the core problem is trying to figure out "how interesting to the platform" a thing is, where the real question is "how interesting to an individual user is it/was it/could it be?" We have all the signals we need to start developing an answer to that question.
I'm still not sure it's a question that the platform wants an interesting answer to.
I agree. Obviously the drive-by upvoters who just use the list to try to earn rewards aren't proving anything. Oh well, I'm a newbie minnow, so what do I know?