It is either that or different criteria is used to determine what appears on the trending page. Instead of using worth of upvotes to determine what is trending or not, they can share the criteria to get on the trending page into three parts; number of human upvotes, number of comments, number of Resteems. The number of upvotes will determine how many persons actually like your blog, the number of comments will determine how many persons engaged with your post and the number if resteems will determine how many persons found it interesting enough to share.
This system will build community and also money will no longer be the factor to determine visibility but rather interaction and quality will be.
In this solution, those who came to make money at the detriment of the platform and those who came to grow the platform will be separated.
This is just an idea and I don't know enough about how the system works to say that this could help. I believe though that if posts that have heavy traffic and interaction, not money, is on the trending page, then the visibility excuse will become useless and then we will know who the enemies of the platform are.
These are my opinions, though.