Steemit is in trouble without fresh content: Superusers stagnate content and are bad for the platform

Many of you might have noticed a peculiar thing: The same 20 or so posts have been sitting at the top of the "trending" list for almost a week, with very little change. Those that are breaking through are things that have vastly vastly more votes by regular uses and are barely squeaking by even so, while superusers' spamish posts dominate the top spots, acting as pseudo-sticky posts.

This is a problem no matter if you are a regular user or a superuser with tens of thousands of Steem power to rocket your content up: eventually it will cause users to look elsewhere for fresh content.

Aggregators live or die, ultimately, by how fresh and interesting content is, and the opposite of that is content which sits on the front page for a week while other, newer and more interesting content languishes 4-5 pages down, mostly due to only having a mere hundreds-of-regular-users votes, rather than the thousands required to organically reach the top, or the one or two superusers required to reach the top.

This is a problem will that only compound as those superusers push their own posts and sockpuppet account posts to the top, gaining ever more Steem power, such that the number of regular user votes required to get a post to the front page becomes ever higher.

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