I've been experimenting with some scripts that create an alt trending page, filtering out known bidbots, known delegator vote bots, self votes, votes by accounts linked through witnesses voting proxy settings and account recovery settings and votes part of an upvotes burst and clockwork votes. The result, a trending list more closely representing true curation looked a whole lot better than the real trending at each test I ran. I'm seriously considering an automated This is what Trending should have looked like this week weekly post. The idea that false curation, in whatever form, is in any way beneficial can easily be shown incorrect. We should be bidding for curation time, not for false curation. Get a real person in the loop.