It wouldn't work just on comments alone, no. Also when something reaches the height of the trending page, more people will notice if people exploited functions to get there. If the rep of the user needs to be above 50 or 60 for comments to count could that work? theres the reputational risk if people see a user spamming basically. And if it makes the trending page, it will be seen, and maybe flagged
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Reputation is a great feature, but not everyone who participates is going to have a high reputation score. Curators and investors who may not post and comment will have no say on what makes it on the trending page.
I see (and ty for explanation) At a certain point then trending will actually mean 'promoted'. As any curator who has a hefty weight is going to be someone who earned the SP from posting, but more likely a whale, or investor. The latter would basically pay to influece the trending page, sure, and that is great. But it woud be misleading to have that as 'trending' tab
I noticed that there's the active and hot sections which don't seem to reflect post activity very well. Further developing the tags in more specific and effective ways would help. Not necessary to shut-out other means of influencing content noticeability.
i can barely guess at how the 'hot' and 'active' tabs filter.
Replying to your lower comment
I don't know what active does but Hot is a pretty simple algorithm. The posts start in the same order as New (newest first), but each time a post gets an upvote, it gets a boost back toward the top of the list. How much of a boost is determined but the SP and weight of the upvote. Posts that don't get upvotes will slide down fast, while posts that continue to get upvotes will stay near the top, then eventually slide down as well.
I'm pretty sure active puts posts that were either just created, edited or had a comment added put at the top of the list, which then just continues to scroll until the next edit or comment, again just bumping to the top of the list.
Simply hitting edit and update post with no changes will put you to the top of active too.