I'm sorry about walking around and being negative. I didn't look into those new changes communities/SMT etc and I don't know how they will effect us.
I really don't care about trending page since I never check it even if I do I don't expect to see something worthy.
There are solutions to everything, if we annoyed by memes. I gathered an idea from some other project that posts contents under a main post like a comment this way people can share memes without destroying their feed or annoying their followers.
I've been thinking about a design community (actually a dribbble clone-ish something) and my goal is to make that place invitation-only and count only application's users vote to display worthy content on its trending page or wherever they need to be displayed (..obviously it won't attract any current investor). It's about ethics, I'm actually a designer so I'm a noob developer thanks to steemit and I can see those things can happen, these guys literally knows to talk with computers with 0 and 1s but they choose to be greedy without noticing the potential of steemit. I've seen that you are worried about loosing investors but if they earn 1 by investing 1 with bid-botes, and after we get rid of those bots and inequal situations we may attract more people so their 1 investment could worth more than 1. I still didn't invite any of my friend or family member into this mess. Because I know it's not about share something and get rewarded. Yeah my english fails me again. So I'm just gonna end it here, hope it's not going to give headache to whoever try to understand what I've just wrote :)