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RE: Why I Think The TRENDING Header Should Be Changed To WHALE PICKS
You are correct it is not really trending. It doesn't have much to do with quantity of votes and thus people interested. Though Whale Picks is kind of negative in connotation. I don't care if that choice is there since I don't tend to look at it. Yet I think a better and more accurate title might be something like "Highest Earning" or something like that. Since it seems more about payout than actual quantity of people interested.
"Whale Picks" is only negative if you market that way. Steemit should go with a branding strategy built around whales, including a Whale logo and a "Whale's Picks" link replacing "Trending". Everybody wants to be a whale, in this place, so it is already built into the zeitgeist that is Steemit. Instead of fighting this, go with it, use it, capitalize upon it. There is no major company using whales right now, except perhaps Shamu for Sea World and the mis-recognized whale that is Charlie the Tuna.
This is true.... we all happily show our badges with minnow, whale, dolphin, etc. It could be spun positively and then labeling it as such might not be a bad move. Yet without that it becomes subjectively positive or negative.
I do think it is funny my badge shows me as a dolphin. When really to be a dolphin I believe I need at least 100m vests. I only have 16m.
I always thought of you as a dolphin... eyes of the beholder! :)
As far as power... the break down seems to be as follows: https://steemd.com/distribution
Newbie (0.01 - 0.09m), User (0.1 - 0.99m), Super User (1 - 9.99m), Hero (10 - 99.99m), SuperHero (100 - 999.99m), Legend (1000m+)
So if we translate that to the ocean we should have a lot more levels than minnow, dolphin, whale.
Whale would obviously be the Legend.
Dolphin I usually thought was the Super Hero level...
Though there are a lot of missing levels so perhaps Dolphin could span several of those ranks.
It'd be cool to actually break this into many levels and have badges and such. :)
EDIT: Plankton, Minnow, Fish, Dolphin, Whale, Kraken :P
oooooh the KRAKEN!
That's the top spot or 10 lol
I agree. Steemit is a game, so we might as well capitalize on what it is in reality.
"Highest pending first payout" is technically the correct objective title for it.
I don't really know why it was ever called Trending. The name doesn't fit at all.
I mostly agree with the OP that treating it like the payout leaderboard that it is would be the first step toward recognizing it shouldn't be viewed as the main or only ranking. It is just one way of looking at active posts.
but Whale Picks is exactly what it is, IN REALITY.
Yes it is. That doesn't mean it is good for the platform to call it as such.
I think it's great. It's ocean-themed. Just like Dory.
Yeah, I think I had some of the negative whale bashing memories from people posting when I thought of it being called that. Which is part of my reaction, plus it is possible (and likely more so in the future) to end up on trending without a whale vote. So calling it whale picks will encompass almost everything there but, there will be exceptions. It seems to be focused exclusively on highest payout posts... which almost always will be whale picks.
If we did a PR campaign to spin the minnow, dolphin, whale type things as actual ranks and achievements then this might actually be a cool label for that column. It'd be cool I think as others have said to gamify the system more. Have achievements, badges, etc as part of the platform. :) That is primarily just a website thing and would not need to be implemented at the blockchain level.
Third reply... sorry. It is theoretically possible for something to get onto the Trending page with out whale votes. It'd just take a phenomenal amount of up votes. Yet it is still possible. So if we called it "whale picks" it is possible (though currently highly unlikely) that you could end up with something there that wasn't actually picked by a whale. :)