Regardless of your content is hot shit or not, trending space should never be free, ever.
@theycallmedan, That's a point. I never thing trending space want to be free. I looked some users was in trending page with declined payouts. But seemed they used promotion bots burned steem lot for increased reputation. I don't say everyone included this list. Within 12-15 months I never used bid bots for promote my posts. If I never deserve to receive rewards, I consider to change my posts without frustrated. Actually #newsteem need to be well deserve to everyone and burn more steem for promote creator's contents seriously abuse task to our blockchain.