Sadly, no.

I agree with inertias comment about buying votes for the posts of others to 'hide' them in promoted. That's not gonna end well.

The same big stake authors would appear each day with very little change - their votes are earned via the same people.

Personally I think 'Trending' should be renamed to 'Adverts' or 'Promoted', and the failed Promoted link be discarded.

Thinking out loud, dangerous on 3 hours sleep, but what about a UA score backed 'Popular' as the gateway page?

Trending aside, I'm hoping the new community developments and alternative front ends bring in methods to find and manage displays. 'Toggle bot posts' on/off.

I wrote about this a few months back, but sending bot posts underground won't send them out of business imo, as long as there is money to be made, the delegations and bids will keep on coming. New methods for larger stakeholders to make money need to be invented, this could help reduce the BBs influence.