Oh, I was talking in general. Most people says ". I don't like or hate them", simply hate them, there is nothing lovely about them. They did nothing good for the ecosystem. It was an alternative when some early-birds dominating trending and since then bid-bots dominating it.
Probably about a year ago, again I'm not sure but probably heimindanger decided to "clean" trending.
found the article :)
https://steemit.com/steem/@heimindanger/operation-clean-trending
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