Hello friends!
Just a friendly PSA from the one and only Lady Steem!
I am not sure if you have been on Dtube's trending page today, but if you haven't, go there now. Tell me what you see!
Is it the same squiggly looking colorful lines over black background videos? Both in the trending and hot sections? (I know they are called graphs, but I have to keep somewhat of my luddite appearance bahaha)
The creator of these videos is none other than @haejin and it appears that he has made his way for the first time, to dtube.
Hooray, you may be thinking, he has 27k followers, and makes awesome vids about what cryptocurrencies to bank on. (That's all relative by the way.) Yes, it is true that he has a huge amount of followers, and that he does make posts that are popular, but this is a serious problem guys.
Right now, @dtube uses an algorithm that boosts posts that fit into it. I am not sure exactly what that consists of, but I am assuming that it has something to do with the amount that a post makes which constitutes that it is "hot" or "trending". At the rate in which Haejin posts, he could literally take up nearly every space on the "hot" and "trending" pages, leaving people with only the ability to see the videos from users they have subscribed to.
Now, he may not continue to use Dtube, so I may be overreacting. Call me an alarmist if you'd like, but I thought I would at least get some noggin's ticking about the issue, and get some feedback about solutions if this really is going to be a thang.
If nothing else, it reveals the danger in some ways of algorithmic post promotion based on amount of money earned vs. views etc. It would be quite easy to manipulate the trending and hot pages if you had enough money.
As always, thanks for watching!
xx~Lady Steem
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