These do not get to the issue what so ever.
The issue is not getting more people to steem. The issue is to keep people, and to get them to power up. If people see the shit on trending and nothing interesting they will not be interested in powering up.
I really cannot believe that you think this is in any way better.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You "Gold" might be other people's "Sh*t". It depends what people are interested in.
At the moment - Trending etc covers too broad a range of topics. We need a way to narrow the focus to what that particular person is interested in - which is what I tried to achieve in "Drive visitors deeper into Steemit"
If they see lots of info they are interested in - then they are much more likely to keep using the site and eventually power up.
We do have tags - but Steemit could do a better job of driving people deeper into the site.
On this we agree.
I simply believe:
Note my suggestions are focused on the content - not shifting the chairs around on the titanic by tweaking reward percentages or free downvotes.
Seriously.
You say you want people to power up.
Then you abuse those of us that do.