RE: Are you willing to use your POB stake to remove Rewards from Posts if Needed?

One of the main reasons for the regular authors on trending/hot is due to an autovote from @richardcrill at 75-100% of his vote weight. This typically rockets these posts up the listings and further boosts them up trending if they're followed by a vote from any of the other whales.

I'm on that list of authors with the autovote and I try to keep up the quality of my posts to warrant the positions, even though I know that my posts are not a scratch on some others that I'm seeing. I'll swallow that doubt and use the influence to help the platform in other ways.

I know that @proofofbrainio does a great job of curating, but there is only so much brainpower in the day and the responsibility and pressure to curate every post here must be rough (it's physically impossible to do quality curation on every post every day). I can understand completely if some days the energy isn't there.

Further delegations to those who are manually curating frequently will help spread the vote weight but there will still be the autovote factor and the responsibility of the whales for what is on trending etc.

I'm not fresh on ideas for alternatives to a trending page but I do think the 'Hot' page is worthwhile and could receive some upgrades.