I've used a few downvotes on trending topics that seemed egregiously bidbotted, but it makes me pretty nervous to do so because I don't want to make enemies of people who have the resources to make my life here miserable if they want to. But the trending page is still dominated by announcements (which are arguably "legitimate" uses of bidbots) or Steem boosterism, which I generally don't find interesting and which people who aren't already here would probably find off-putting so I think that's still not a great trending page if the goal is broader adoption even though it's "organically trending" among people who are already here. Maybe the old trending stuff was even worse, I only looked occasionally so I don't have a solid basis for comparison. It would be nice if some of the advocates for these changes would find a way to concretely measure how things are better/worse now.

I am still pretty negative about the economic changes.