There are some landmines that people need to avoid aren't there...lol. Know it's not funny when it happens to you, but luckily the effects aren't forever and can be overcome.
Trending page should be completely removed IMO and replaced with a new one. It serves zero value other then making whales much richer. Think any and all paid promotion should go to a Burn account and the SBD/Steem used for the promotion should be removed from circulation. There would be zero financial gain from the paid promotion and it would be integrated into a real trending page. It would be true paid placement/advertising and the platform as a whole would benefit from this as the amount of Steem in circulation would decrease each time someone did this.
I guess you will need to become a witness and put that idea up for voting. 😋
That just might be on the long term growth map that is in my head. Will need to make it a team of like minded people and not a single person witness account. Would like to pull in some talent and enough vests to make an impact right away.