100% agree and it gets to me to the point I ignore trending and hot, which is a shame. Its primarily because people join with one main focus to make money with very little passion or enjoyment for blogging. Especially as we are in realm of cryptocurrency.
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I learned within one week to NEVER click Trending, Hot, or Promoted. Those are just advertisements and the payouts are not real, since most of the votes have been bought. One issue that might help is to base and show the actual profit from a post: the payout minus the amount paid for bidvots. Ultimately, we probably need 1 human = 1 account, but that is apparently never going to happen here. Yes, it is hard to do that, but supposedly it will be possible with Oracles. There are benefits to some automation, but the problem is that at this point automated voting seems to be having a for more negative, exploitative effect than a positive one.
And thus the cycle, gaining visibility requires substantial upvotes or curated by the great teams like curie and steemitbloggers but we can only pick up so much. The idea of non profit upvotes from bots would break the cycle of spamposts getting generated. Then it's the battle of quality Vs popularity ;-)
I follow individuals and communities such as curie and steemitblogger so that I have a high quality feed. I also check comments and ginabot to track what's happening.
Yup that's a great approach :)
Such a sad reality
so true @niko3d!!!