If all it took for posts to show up on the trending page was "lots of votes from the masses" you would start to see all the technically smart users create armies of bots and upvote their posts with thousands of votes.
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not if you add reputation-weighted voting algorithm.
Reputation is not part of the consensus, though - which means it could potentially be hacked by a malicious miner/witness.
Also, it would not be very hard to boost reputation in order to manipulate votes if it meant it would be used in rewards. (As an example, I believe one upvote from someone like @blocktrades can take a new user from reputation 25 to reputation 50.)
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Yes, that's because there is currently no incentive to mine up the reputation of bots. Change the incentives and you will rapidly see bot armies with higher reps.
but crappy bots usually have a 25 rep score. It's hard to get a big boost in rep score without being active.
That would change very quickly if having a higher reputation score meant you could influence rewards.
true true.