Thanks man and I agree. The trending page has never been about quality content just about people knowing how to get there and I'm fine with that or in other words it has never bothered me.
Everyone is on their own journey.
Neither did the blockchain care. It still keeps growing with a ton of development behind it.
I don't understand the talk about n^2 either.
Under n^2 the posts of high Steem power holders would do even better than they are right now. And the posts of minnows even worse but with the consequence that they will lose the voting power they enjoy today.
Linear makes the most sense for me and SMT's can be used to figure out hundreds of different economic models and people will gravitated to the ones they want.
Right on, man. Remember the days of having 10,000 Steem only to have your vote worth one cent? Jeez, I'd hate to go back there again. And imagine how those with way less SP would feel? Sounds like a dystopia to me. We saw what things were like back then and I'd hate to return to the "ice-age". Let's hope common sense prevails. :)