I understand your frustrations about the situation and you are getting a lot of flak for stuff you can't control, here is what you control...Your bot services. Yes both of the shit post in question along with many others had a pretty big upvote from your services last night along with the use of other bots that you have no control is filling the garbage page...oops trending page, that part you have no control over, I get it. Just like they have the right to send you money for a vote on their shit content, you have the right to not vote it for poor quality and send the money back. I applaud your efforts into blacklisting spammers and plagiarism and I understand you don't want to remove the votes on the garbage post but you also have the ability to get them a first class ticket to your blacklist for poor usage and abuse of your services. At the end f the day, your bot, it reflects on you and your contribution to the platform by upvoting garbage into oblivion. As you stated in the sea of comments " I have curators that go thru 1000 posts to find 5 good post for the curation digest" with that line, you are kinda of validating what many have been saying, that your bot gets abused by shit posters. Think of it as a first time user will check out the trending page and want to be on it...what example are they seeing? what will they do?? the same thing as those who got there. A potential investor if they are smart will look at the trending page before investing to see what is considered quality...what will they see? Would you invest if that was the only thing you knew about the place was the first glance at the trending page? Maybe they lose money to use upvote from bid bots maybe they don't, I personally do not know but it reflects badly on the platform overall and we all lose in the terms of the loss of value of steem the more of a shitshow it becomes. I sincerely hope this controversy will bring the issue to light so a solution can be found.