I absolutely agree with @originalmrspice. If you have to spend that massive amount of money to go trending your content probably is crap. And even if it’s still valuable it must be marked as advertisement or promo or how about “pathetic”?
And this massive abuse is decreasing the value of steem. That’s why all people who care about this platform should use at least some at of their voting power to flag this trash using @heimsindanger’s tool.
I will keep flagging everything beyond 80% bot rate no matter how “good” the content might be until it’s finally sorted out or marked properly!