Another suggestion from @thecryptofiend is to consider burning SBD to promote posts!
yeah... and we can actually do amazing things about this. But not only on Steemit, but also on eSteem (cc: @good-karma), or Busy (cc: @ekitcho). How?
eSteem and Busy also should display in some place those promoted posts. This do not have to be always visible, you can ask once a user, whether they want to support STEEM network by displaying promoted posts in some place.
For example if eSteem would notify me once a day about post which spent on promotion the most, then as a user - I would not be very much annoyed, but as a STEEM shareholder, I would be happy that someone spent money on promotion.
Actually notifying all eSteem users which has this option enabled would be totaly different model on promotion - take all or nothing. Actually people will start to bidding, because they will start to guess how much will be enough to be on first place at 00:00 UTC every day.
Even if they will "loose", they will be still proportionally promoted on Steemit :)
We are a shareholders of Steem - please give as a tools, thanks to which people will going to burn more SBD :)
Interesting approach for early adopters. Not easy to understand and adding friction for mainstream audience.
The Idea is OK in my pov. Have to discuss it
Consider this: option to enable displaying promotion post can be buried in the Settings - with additional information, that enabling this help support Steem network.
You can ask a user once, whether they want to consider enabling that, but only if:
I will emphasize this one more time. This can be disabled by default :)
Great idea! Implementing new ways to add value to promoted posts via the other platforms would be huge!!
but I think other platforms should try to use a little bit different algorithm than Steemit. Displaying in separate tab promoted posts in order... is IMO the most ineffective way to promote posts :) but at the same time I understand this approach.
For example I would like to see an option, in Busy or in eSteem, to put 1 or 2 promoted post in random spots on my trending page. If I would like to cheat myself and force me to take a look on promoted posts without a acknowledgement that they are promoted - then let me do that - this will allow me to do honest curation and support Steem network at the same time :)
There is some conversation about different approaches here: https://github.com/steemit/condenser/issues/1072