As Cork's witness partner, I find myself at loose ends over the bot issue, because I don't like them, either. However, the market demanded them, so here they are. I'm working on other initiatives to try and bring organic curation back into play. But in the meanwhile, I do support Cork's decision to bot this post to the top of trending, because Steemit is hemorrhaging users and new signups are down by 50% between March and April. I think part of that has to do with what people see when they're directed to to the trending page and it's the first thing they see. So yes, I'm all for putting some of Steemit's heart on trending--the communities, the philanthropic initiatives--the good news, in other words. Not just our dirty underwear. LOL I hope to see more posts like this one parked on top of trending in the days to come.
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As a pragmatic plankton that believes that upvote bots are the ruination of this platform and destroy the dream of its creator, I concur with both @sircork and @rhondak. So let me leave this for All the commenters...