Want to be on the Hot or Trending page?
It takes money. Lots of it. And every so often, luck. Let me show you.
Here's what I did
- Opened the Hot and Trending pages
- Clicked the profile link for each hot/trending post on the first page
- Opened the Wallet page for each profile
- Pasted the estimated account value for each profile into a spreadsheet
- Calculated the average, minimum and maximum
Here's what I found
Trending page
$81,539.88 is the average value of an account on the first page of Trending
- 19 profiles
- $81,539.88 average account value
- $270,904.31 maximum account value
- $0.85 minimum account value *(explanation below)
Hot page
$68,163.12 is the average value of an account on the first page of Hot
- 19 profiles
- $68,163.12 average account value
- $309,076.67 maximum account value
- $314.19 minimum account value
This is just quick and dirty number gathering but as you can see, it sure does seem like to get into Hot or Trending territory it is very much pay-to-play here. The only outlier here was the account valued at $0.85 which just happened to be a brand new account that got lucky with their introduceyourself post likely voted up by some movers and shakers.
Draw your own conclusions with these numbers, they're quite eye opening.