How I see it, there are only three (3) ways to get to the trending page right now.
Stories about the quality post have been proven 100% are not working. There are exceptions but rarely.
This post is driven only by the desire to help Steemit platform to be fairer than it is now and to have a more user friendly interface.
You can end up on the trending page ;
A) If you pay bots, and not only one, you must pay at least a few of them
B) you are a big whale or big whale support you
C) you are part of the community like #ADSactly or similar
A) BOTS
I have nothing against paying the bots, I know that many are discussing this issue and that opinions are different. Maybe this proposal (suggestion) of mine will solve this problem. I sure hope so.
Suggestion
It is actually nothing revolutionary, as it is solved on google, under the paid posts should be written (paid post, add or something like that), maybe it should be labeled in a different color so people would know that the post arrived on trending page thanks to bots.
B) THE BIG WHALE VOTE
No one can forbid nor do I think it should be forbidden to big whales to vote, of course, but it still not suggest that the certain post is quality one just because big whale voted for him.
Suggestion
Here we should have some criteria and it should be expressed in money.
For example, if a post gets a vote worth more than 10 US,(it can now be more or less depending on the limit we agree on) should be also written (Whale vote, dolphin vote etc), and it should also be labeled in a different color.
C) COMMUNITY VOTE
It is a fact that many communities have curators and they filter quality post by themselves, but there are some that have trails voting for them without checking the quality.
Suggestion
The same thing like in A) and B) situation it should be labeled and written community vote.
Final thought
I hope that experience of reading and spending time at Steemit would be much more enjoyable if we use this labels and that the trending page will be what the once was- A place for good and quality posts!
You must agree with me that today it isnt!
