I completely disagree with this
Regardless of your content is hot shit or not, trending space should never be free, ever.
What is Trending Then?
In my opinion, the trending page should be fully organic, by allowing paid posts on trending page we are just spreading a false message to the whole community members as if these are the recent hot discussion on steemit but sadly which is not true most of the time.
In fact, this is the exact situation of steemit trending page for a long time now and I know many are complaining about this specific topic many times.
If you want trending position to be paid then what's the use of the promoted page. Now don't tell me promoted page here is different, I know it and I just want to give example.
Let's take an example of other centralized social media, in theory, don't pay for twitter's trending page, neither for facebook or youtube.
Now we are in decentralized media(so-called ) and being one of the influencing people of this platform you are saying trending page should be paid??
Trending represents the currently popular topic/discussion of the entire community and hence it should always be organic.
You can't put certain people on pedestals and say it's ok for them to use bid bots for free trending space but not others,
This is what I always say if you set any rules then, it should be equal for everyone. But here, it seems like rules/barriers/....whatever you say are only for small fishes.
Spot on, and well said. unfortunately people on steem have been indoctrinated into seeing black as white and down as up in a lot of cases. Peeps have been saying all of this for years and the vote sellers have just been laughing and saying 'what you gonna do about it'.
That's an over simplification, but you get what I'm driving at... good sense is thrown out of the window when a bunch of powerful people see an opportunity to get richer off the back of a system exploit.
Ya I can see where it seems like I think trending should only be for ads and not content creators with that sentence. I updated it to better reflect what I meant.