The point of this post is to point out to all that read it, that the Trending Page is massively over-rewarding people now that Hive is about 80 cents to 1 USD.

This is not a dig or a slight or anything bad aimed at anyone.

This post is Limited to 6 HBD earnings.

THIS CRITERIA IS NOT FROM ME(and I don't recommend downvoting these posts on Trending either), mind you, this criteria is coming from the Downvoters that left comments on @ura-soul posts and other posts by Downvoters with large stake. @ura-soul/your-comments-on-the-cancel-culture-and-zeroing-of-viral-posts-on-hive-by-curangel

I encourage you to look through 100 posts on Trending, and you will see that MAYBE 5 to 10 of them are not over-rewarded. It might have made sense to upvote people at 100% from a Whale when Hive was below 30 cents, as the post rewards for that might only be 5 USD to 10 USD which isn't much with a 50/50 split. Now that Hive is worth a lot more the people who used to do huge upvotes all the time on others are causing a large imbalance in over-rewarding others while downvoting and going after a few that they don't like in our community.

https://hive.blog/ AKA "over-rewardedposts.blog"

So when are we going to have a serious conversation as a community about over-rewarded posts, and how Downvote wars are not the answer?

I'm going to blow your mind, the most simple fix for MOST of this issue is to encourage people to set the "max earnings on a post" to a low amount on posts that didn't take long to write, aren't high quality, and that don't add value to Hive. They can STILL get onto trending if their post only has 1 HBD limit, as long as they get large upvotes from others it gets on Trending and gets more exposure. The Downvoters are also in violation of their own rules for Downvoting, they have posts that are over-rewarded that didn't add value to hive, didn't take long to write, weren't high quality, etc.

I set my post to not be worth much, 6 HBD with a 50/50 split earns me 2.40 USD or so(I'm rich!!!). This post I am writing took more effort than most posts on Trending, and that says something about how broken things are right now. I probably edited, removed words, added words, redid things for about 40 minutes before posting this. Not saying I'm a good writer or anything, just saying the time it took was a lot longer than most on Trending. I had a lot more written down with links and references, but I deleted it and condensed it to make it shorter. Everyone here can just browse through Trending and see for themselves as it is pretty obvious who is over-rewarded.