It is forced content. Forced content is bad most of the time.

Great! Keep it up. These changes should have done a long ago... But it's never too late..hoping for a great future! Steem on!

> We have not accepted any payments in return for being featured, but we are open to this possibility in the future.

Noooooo!!!! Big mistake, Hudge. Think big, think about millions, not hundreds. Make a dedicated space only for relevant stuff (*if you really think you need that option)

Great, it's always good to be informed and up to date with everything that happens in this wonderful chain of blocks. I will take this reference publication to inform our community in Spanish. Thanks for informing.
Good vibes.

>Featured Posts are actually a rough implementation of a feature that will launch with Communities called “Pinned Posts” 

The '*Featured Posts*' implementation here on Steemit, is perhaps a helpful addition and being unobtrusive in nature, I don't mind it at all; as a matter of fact, I welcome it.

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I am sure the folks at D-live would have just loved this feature. Con the team into thinking they are doing something for steem, then con the people, and then cut and run. 

So the next group that has an idea real or fake gets to pay to promote to each and every steemit user and then maybe get a vote from them because they think that steemit supports the poster, and they very well may support them, just like they initially supported D-live. Steemit **Vetting** has worked so well in the past.

There appears to be a problem Houston:
![missing posting athourity.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQneUXv6Mr8LALddkD3bjpww5BV9dHvXa5mztWxuYf8ep/missing%20posting%20athourity.png)

edit: as you can see I can comment, but not post. Why?

I tried busy.org, and steeve.app also and no go on posting a post. Any Idea why. Missing Posting Authority Issues again. I have seen other new post. I even shut down restarted, logged off, resigned on, and still no ability to make a post yet I can comment something is wrong. Is my post to long it is over 4000 words long and has one picture? What is the issue?

somthing do that because steem price decreasing you have to maintain steem price at least 1 dollar why you not preparing for smt btc growing but steem still going down don't forget if price ever decreasing then steem going die.

I think it is a good idea. Also some type of notification in our top menu that is ONLY steem updates would be helpful as well.

I think this is a really great feature to make sure that important updates are not missed by users. Even if we follow certain accounts, important updates may still be missed if you do not open steemit for long enough. In such cases these updates are really helpful. 
Like the Steemwallet update or Steemconnect issue which had caused a lot of panic an year ago. 
This feature is absolutely spot on. 
**Just hope it is not abused for promotions of random posts**

Feature PAYING for Future ?
Any Another Improvements ?

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A lot of innovation for steem! and then why is the price still falling? I do not understand absolutely nothing

Thanks for considering my suggestion about pinned posts. I hope to see that soon in steemit !

We think this is a wise way to make full use of the 10-15 Million monthly page views and eyeballs steemit.com as a top 5000 website. 

Any communications by the Steemit team can now be better communicated to Steemians who are using Steemit.com. Which has been a major pain point by the users from what we have observed.

Maybe one day @coingecko would have a featured post on Steemit.com too when the need arises😉

You need to finish fixing the WALLET @steemitblog I still cannot 'reveal' my keys even when I type in my master key it does not reveal the keys in the permission area. Not happy with this update at all.

keep goin👍

It's mostly spam, and basically advertising. If it's not something I MUST know as a Steemit user, don't force it on me. Not impressed.
Even muting the offending accounts doesn't get rid of it?
I resent having to 'x' these, essentially popups, all the time.
If I was actually being paid to use Steemit, sure, maybe you could advertise to me and waste my time. But Steemit isn't free, we all must buy in and keep our money locked into the blockchain, before we can make our first post, comment, or vote. Nothing happens on Steemit for free, especially after HardFork20.
So come on, leave us paying customers alone. Spam to somebody else. You're just driving more users away. It's like adding an additional tax on a people. It slows things down, makes people upset, and ultimately ends up harming the economy.
Come on, get rid of the spam. Set a good precedent for the rest of the users. Quality matters.

Hm yes, thank you for proving that payout and curation (visibility) are completely unrelated as all frontends are controlled in a centralized manner. 

Now eliminate curation from the consensus layer and put it on an optional sliding scale to be determined by the content creator.

Is there any way to stop the featured posts from coming back after I clicked the x? I'm getting real tired of having to remove posts I didn't want to see in the first place multiple times a day.

I'm sure this has to do with my privacy settings on my browser but why should I have to change them just to stop seeing shit I didn't want to see anyways?

I can't know if I speak for others, but I DO NOT LOOK AT THE FEATURED POSTS. Please **continue to use the side-bar** for important messages.

I tend to agree with those who say that Steemit Inc. should NOT be manipulating what shows up in the featured posts page. It is already flooded with much of the same stuff I don't care to see. The side bar is the BEST place for posting important information that needs a place OF ITS OWN and NOT be mingled in with other stuff.

Steem has such great potential; please don't tank it with your "improvements". It's bad enough I need to be annoyed by having to scroll up each time I need to access the menu in the disappearing header.

@onepageX

How long do you want the post to stay featured?
Whose post will mostly be featured, the moderator or the quality content creator?

I agree with what @soyrosa said:
**(PS: The best way to get people to see content is if their favorite Steemians/influencers resteem a post. Making sure a resteem works like a retweet, with a personal comment from the Steemian that resteems would be my preferred functionality to add to Steemit.com in order to get more 'viral content' - people want to know why a person resteems a post so they can decide to open a post from an otherwise random author.)**
I am so small a user, even though I've been here for nearly 2 yrs, I only make a few pennies a day.
When I go to my feed (which is rare because) all I see is resteem after resteem right down the wall, people I know and like resteeming stuff, but WHY? I don't have time to open each one of those things, and the TITLE'S are often obscure from the content.
If I resteem something, let me say WHY I thought it worthy of resteeming.