Hey everyone, I've been thinking today how Steemit could help good Minnows and Dolphins to grow.
Let's face it, the trending page is almost a reserved space for a bunch of people.
I take a look at trending almost every day but a big part of the content I see there is a limited list of users who are whales or supported by them.
I have to agree that their content is quite often quite good as well, but I'd like to see good stuff others create as well and the hot page isn't really delivering on that.
My suggestion, therefore, is a trending page for each of the main user levels.
First of all, directly clicking on trending will still get you to the current trending page, so no additional complexity required here. Also, the design of the bar won't change we don't need any additional links there.
But, when hovering over the "trending" link a dropdown list appears:
Ignore the bad style of my bad HTML mockup but it would basically open something better looking as this enabling you to go to the trending minnows, dolphins and whales pages.
This would help the best minnows to turn dolphins and the best dolphins to become whales even faster and help to distribute the reward pool more equally between everyone.
Now, this is the easiest part of this, as a community we would have to decide how to correctly classify people.
I will write a proposal here, but I'd appreciate if we, as a community, could discuss this and I can adapt the proposal during the 7 days with the additions of you guys.
Whales: Over 100k SP, or over 25k SP and over 5000 followers
Dolphins: Over 5k SP, or over 1000 followers and over 1k sp
Minnows: Everything under the above
I hope I can get some good feedback so I can adapt this system to perfect it, so it might really become an option.