People are always going to make money off stupid stuff. You can try your best to try to stop them from making money for stuff that you may disagree with or things that may or may not be worth any or some or a lot of money. But how do you even determine what is more valuable and what is less valuable? That debate can take us down the path of subjectivity, relativity, progressive liberal democratic leftism and so on and so forth. Like I said before, you can try to minimize the alleged spam and crap. But is that the kind of life you want to have? Do you want to focus on being a Steem cop so to speak or would it be better to focus on the posts you do like? You can and I do not totally disagree because I kind of want to do what you do here.

I agree and I may not like some or most of what trends.

The trending posts may or may not encourage newbies to shit out junk as well, to some extent, but that is life is it not and that is what freedoms and choices is all about? How many are encouraged to play basketball all day each day for years and years and maybe too often and too much on the hope they can be in the NBA someday? That is one example. There are many examples.

Your Worst Post Badge can be rewarded to Nothing Burger Trending Posts and people may be encouraged to see that they shouldn't upvote those posts perhaps and some people will agree with you with the badges you give them or whatever you want to call them or whatever you may do and do do perhaps. So, I am not totally against what you do and try to do. I am just questioning the foundation to it and it can work maybe to some extent. It can be tough to do it depending on how you do it but it could catch on and go more viral as more people follow you to create Nothing Burger Badges or Shift Holes.

Where and how do you draw the line between what is personal or not? In capitalism, in business, you make money and you do whatever you can maybe to make money at work through services and through goods, products, etc, and that may or may not include bots it seems. Bots are part of that economical system, right? If bots are part of that, then does that make it personal or too personal? And does it matter if it is personal or not? The voting is a money thing. And money may or may not be personal but does that matter? We find ways to make money. Does that mean we deserve the money? Who decides who deserves how much money? Do I decide how much you deserve? Do you decide how much money I can get or cannot get? All of this can and might become too subjective and relative through opinions and perspectives of our views on values and principles. People believe and value things differently and therefore see some things as more valuable and other things as less valuable. Look at the auctions. Look at the antique Road Shows. People can spend thousands of dollars on paintings and old spoons and old coins and all kinds of things. If I had an original Star Wars item from 1977 or around that time and somebody buys that item for $8,000 USD, you might want to give me a Stupid Badge maybe and you could say I do not serve thousands of dollars for one small item. Like maybe a metal Star Wars lunch box from the 1970's or something assuming there were some. And assuming you are not a big fan of Star Wars. But this is just an example of how something could be considered maybe priceless as a masterpiece or maybe not as art and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I believe in making a lot of money even on the top of other people. And that can appear to be scary and ugly and not fair. There might be a difference between taking bribes and asking for bribes. And it also may depend on how you define the word "Bribe" as well. I say, let it be. Each person is responsible for who they may or may not vote for. And if a thousand people vote for a Nothing Burger Post to make the payout $800 USD for example, then maybe it is the fault of each voter, each upvoter, rather than the fault of the Original Poster (OP), the poster, the author, the writer, the content creator. Yeah, maybe the creator sucks too but each user has some voting power and has the right to waste and to even vote up themselves as well. And yeah, people can vote up crap. That is what people do. They have the right to do that but can be wrong in it. I agree that they might be wrong in doing so but it is part of life and the pursuit of happiness and humans are lost in depravity as well. And George Soros is a scary man.
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