Great idea for the seperate reward pool!
I also agree with you on the quality of posts being rewarded unequally. One suggestion i would like to make it to arrange the trending page by some other order than highest payouts. Maybe comments or page views? Something that is more engaging than a simple high paying upvote.
We used to have an ACTIVE tab which listed in order of comments.
Any idea what happened to it or why it was taken down?
Nope. Just gone one day.
We're still in beta. It might come back :)
I agree with you. It would be good to pay for the articles for the level of quality. Each time, the user himself determines how much to give a certain article. That is, to exclude the possibility of poor-quality articles in the trend to give a big payment. Then it will be more fair and creative original posts will start to read more people and give worthy payment. While this is utopia for Steemit. Rich fish will command a parade, and small fish and creative swim, as they can, without support.