A Matter Of Record

@trendthis has never engaged in any 'backroom deals' for votes, nor have they facilitated any sort of quid pro quo scheme for votes. This is objectively false. We exist solely to reward top tier authors and give them the promotion, over and above the noise on trending they deserve.

We exist solely to coordinate the voting of high quality posts. What we will not do, is to continue to operate under the siege of any account, no matter how much authority they claim to wield for the best interest of Hive.

Our crime, reaching out to authors for them to join us in our public discord to discuss the featuring of his high quality posts, the same opportunity afforded to any author via our open discord channel.

It is with regret we must announce that all activity for this initiative will stop immediately pending positive resolution of these accusations, and suppression of our messaging ceased and/or reversed.

With that we appreciate those who helped us improve the trending on STEEM, and then for a fleeting moment on HIVE. In any case, hopefully we can continue to make trending better in some way, shape, or form.

No apologies will be offered or given, and no permission to operate will be asked.

@joshman/@trendthis