I rarely head over to the trending page usually stick to the people I follow occationally picking up a new person based on a comment they made on another post and down the rabbit hole I go.

I did venue out this morning though and for the first time used my down votes. I felt guilty at first. who am I to judge? but I also realized that if they have the right to post shit and an ad then I have the same right to say.... really?

I have to admit that in my first few months on steemit, under my own name, I have tested the waters of the bid bots mainly because a guy I followed used them and I saw $$$$$. I thought "hey, this guy knows what he is doing" but after doing my own research I didn't want to "win" that way.

I think we will only get better from here. I am exited for the next Hard fork that is when this community with really start to hone in with communities, and I hope that by the time that comes around much of the spam and shit posts will be taken care of.

I think once newer users and thoses with low SP realize the potential of Steem out weights the smaller payout we will really see something magical.