“may”

lol...it already does. It always has. It always will. 

I would bet that an overwhelming majority of featured posts will be Steem- or crypto-centric crap that most social media users couldn’t care less about, including most Steem users. 

And I say this knowing the 3-year+ track record of STINC and the people/projects (as well as the *type* of people/projects) that they support. Just expect to be unimpressed and likely irritated by this “new feature” that probably should have existed three years ago. But for over 2.5 years, Steemit.com was only supposed to be (according to STINC) “just good enough.”

I wonder what has suddenly changed their mind this year.

I'm sure some correspondence to the steemit team via email would personally shed a light on how Steemit will feature posts. After all, it is steemit.inc's responsibility to utilize steemit.com as best as they can.  It would be interesting to see how different Steem platform will feature different types of content as the free market of user preference plays out.

An auction system to get on the featured position might open up Steemit to advertiser $$$ from outside the ecosystem.