How can we improve the "Promoted" tab on Steemit? by valth

<a href="https://musing.io/q/valth/p3g88ues5"><b>How can we improve the "Promoted" tab on Steemit?</b></a><p>The "promoted" tab on Steemit is not really living up to its potential at all. Most people don't really look at it, so money spent on promotions are pretty much wasted. However, one important thing is that money spent on promoting things are sent to @null, which means that the SBD is burned. This is very good for the Steem ecosystem, so we would all benefit from it if more people used the Steemit promotion. So, how would you personally change this to have a better impact? Let's make some great suggestions, and maybe Steemit Inc. will listen? </p>

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@rishi556 · Jul 4 '18

How can we improve the "Promoted" tab on Steemit?

Having promoted as a tab sucks, thats not how advertising is done. Ads aren't placed all by themselves in a place. Nobody would go there. Look at T.V. ads, they come in between shows. Thats how promoted needs to be done.

Rather than a tab, the promoted posts should show up in between posts in your feed, trending, like how other sites do it. It should be 1 promoted post ever 10 regular post. The goal with promoting is to get a bigger audience and that should do that.

The promoted tab is a very steemit thing though, so it can easily be avoided by using another frontend which won't show those posts for those who don't want to see them, so theres one issue. But some people do use promoted so we might as well help burn some steem and drive views their way.

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