You're right, but when you start in steemit you're told that it would reward good content and that content would be on the trending page. You check it the first time you use it, cast some votes on that trending shit, before realising the reality is really different because of the bots.

I agree with you that communities are 90% of steemit, but that's also a bit of a "flaw" from steemit itself...

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