I was just reading this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@chitty/if-you-have-the-votes-that-is-all-that-matters
And it got me thinking: What if the trending posts were actually sorted by the number of votes instead by the number of influencers?
This would allow great content to be decided by the masses instead of the few. If the masses decide a post is good then it will raise to the top and subsequently attracted more influencers. This would also allow brand new users to potentially have more visibility instead of making $0.00, being disillusioned about the platform, and not interested in investing.
As someone commented on the linked post
The 80% of the members only have 0.17% voting power here
This might be a good solution to this problem. Thoughts?