I here ya. It is a little disconcerting when two-thirds of the post on the main page are all about Steemit. BUT (and this is a big but), I've been here for about a month and I have to say that my favorites posts are usually about...you guessed it...Steemit. Why? Because this thing is both addicting and different. It's like nothing that has ever existed before. It's taken me a month of reading to just begin to get my mind around it. And, contrary to your suggestion, I think there's a lot of noobs here who are EXACTLY like me in that regard. They want to read and learn about Steemit. To some degree, the more we feed that beast the better.
Having said that, I do go out of my way to vote up unrelated content, and I think all dolphins and whales need to make a concerted effort to do the same.
Very valid points here! I don't disagree. I'd just like to take those posts off the homepage and if you want to read about them, you can dive into the topic and read all about it.
If we had stickies as @donkeypong suggested with a welcome/getting started/intro that mentioned digging into that section, I think that still gets the job done without sacrificing some of the other mentioned benefits that could come from the proposal.
Good thoughts. Perhaps rather than the trending page showing all posts ranked in order of their trend it should show the top two or three posts in each category/tag ranked by order of trend. That would ensure more diversity on the trending page.
Yep. My proposal is that we get people to just choose those category/topics. So what you said, with the ability to choose those topics instead of them being chosen for you.