Well I'm surprised that not everyone is involved in a bot because it basically printing money that is why a lot of huge SP holders delegate to it.
I have a couple of witnesses who are bot owners or involved as delegators as well and I also use bots because I am now at that point that its hard to get a curie vote because of my reputation and I have not yet seen a whale benefactor haha.
But I still try to get a good quality post.
It's hard to see rubbish in trending and sit there not using Bots, I use them sometimes too.
Printing money now, so there is none left later?
Interesting thought on the printing money and I had this kind of discussion with a mentor regarding the pros and cons of botting.
I rarely look at the trending because you either see heavily botted pieces there or self voted/circle jerked by certain individuals . There are certain people who are as high as 25%-80% in self voting and voting for about less than 5 people.
Yes 'trending' has been ruined by both of the above. It is very rare that an article 'deserves' to be there due to community support/approval.