RE: Proof of Consent of Participants and the Danger Click-bait F'U Posts.
if I would bring 4000 new users which are chicken lovers, would you like to see on trending only content about chickens? would you like to see on trending only content about chickens?
Absolutely yes! (It would not literally only be chickens any more than it is only Steemsports or has ever been only anything.)
The Trending page is statistical summary of the unpaid posts with the highest stake-weighted voting. Nothing more. If the community grows rapidly (4000 active users would likely grow it by a factor of five or so), then whereever the growth (and interests of the user base, as well as potential growth) is greatest should and likely will dominate Trending. I don't care if that is sports or chickens or pizzagate or boobies.
Trending is not an Editor's Picks page or a page that shows the variety of all topics that are being discussed on the site regardless of popularity. You're looking for a different page (that may not currently exist)
What is important is not what is on Trending, nor that Trending is a featureless blob of all sorts of posts that are approved by @noisy. What is important is that it can, and does, change and adapt to the shifting interests of the, hopefully growing, user base and stakeholders.
Betting popularity contest is even worse, its not even fair, because it can be manipulated by voters.
I thought this too but I was corrected. The popularity contests were not judged by the voting. They were judged by an external poll.
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HAHAHA
A poll which allows 1 vote per IP, probably not near as many votes as the internal vote. I know for a fact I could manipulate this either way by myself.
So what?
People really lack perspective on this. Does anyone really think there is a correct answer to "Who is the Steemiest?" That cheating and manipulating the answer to that question is a matter of great importance?
It is a silly game with a low barrier to entry where the primary function of it is to provide some entertaining content and act as a faucet and distribute a bit of rewards to a lot of people. Which it will certainly do regardless of whether the poll is tampered with or not.
Also, let's say hypothetically people really cared about "Who is the Steemist?" Are you sure you would be the only one manipulating the poll? What happens when one @halo fan manipulates it one way and another @denvermax fan manipulates it the other way? And how are voters supposed to know which manipulation will prevail? But I digress, since again the result of the poll doesn't matter much.