I would at least like for some small tweaks that could probably be done on the front ends to help newer content creators.
To encourage trending author turnover, trending should not be based on payout, but other metrics such as lifetime payout, reputation, average recent post payout, etc that make it harder for established authors to keep reaching trending. For instance, if an author has a trail that gives them $50 no matter what they write, they should not get trending for a $51 post. Now if their post is worth $75 (1.5X their average post), that might be trend worthy. The most well known authors don’t need to be on trending anyway. We all see @blocktrades posts, etc.
Maybe there would be a payout based category so people can still find the top earners.
We need to have content creator turnover and hive influencers should not overshadow new authors. It would be like Kim Kardashian constantly trending. That would be counterproductive and unnecessary. That is the world be live in at the moment.
The shortage of consumers/curators is a problem. If you had even a few thousand more curators deciding what's currently popular, you'd see the trending page change constantly, throughout the day. There's no need to tweak that, just need to attract more consumers to make it actually work.
That’s a good point. Do you think higher curation rewards would attract more people to the platform?
I think the curation rewards combined with the fact a content creator with skin in the game can reward consumers with comment upvotes is quite generous at the moment and if more people found out they could get paid to be entertained and didn't have to throw their money away to support those they enjoy, those people would be interested. You can't sell the idea as 'curation rewards' though. That's our local language. There are people here who did buy in so they can sit around and have fun, while being rewarded. Rewarding the actual consumers is one of the most misunderstood and unappreciated things we got going for us. Give away one free beer at a baseball game and the stadium is packed.