Think of the "Trending" page like this. If only ugly, run down ships call here, would you think of dismantling the port?
Oh no, you got the analogy all wrong..
Its not about the old run down ships that are docking in the port. Its about the toxic waste dumped in the harbor that is killing all the fish and stopping quality traffic from coming into the harbor.
Not only should the port be dismantled, it should be bulldozed, its remains quarantined and a plaque placed high saying:
These are our failures. This is our shame. May it never come to pass again.
What "it should be" is beyond my point. We have been here long enough by now to know that changing something so central as Trending is akin to persuading turkeys to vote for Christmas.
Perhaps it will happen one day. But what do we do in the meantime?
Are we going to keep writing endless lamentations about how this place is going down the drain and how things should be done better all the while nothing changes?
Here I am proposing a pragmatic approach to make the best out of a dire situation which indeed illustrates our collective failure as imperfect, wretched human beings.
You, me, him, we know we write good, original content that is better than many shitposts being pumped to trending.
You can either wring your hands in despair and lament the situation in litanies about how things should be.
Or you can put your money where your mouth is and contest the Trending, fight for it with your SBDs!
Yes. Thats what you do when things suck. You point it out. And the trending issue can be fixed very easily. Its a steemit thing not a steem one. Steemit inc can choose the algo they use for content placement. They could very easily just make a seperate no bot trending.
They could, but they won't. Because some people like it the way it is. And their voice is strong enough to prevent change.
I'm sure you know Hirschman's "exit, voice, loyalty". You are advocating "voice". My article says that at some point "voice" is dissipating productive effort and holding us back and "loyalty" is not absurd and would be much more beneficial to everybody who is not so pissed as to "exit"