I'm not sure why @luegenbaron believes "bid-botting" is verboten, I've never heard a coherent moral-theory on the subject (it seems like free-market-economics to me).
why should we stake at all then? just buy the votes you would have upvoted.
Your motivation to stake might be to run your own for-profit bid-bot (mercenary vote-for-hire endorsement-promotion-advertising service).
COMPETITION = GOOD, ammiright?
It seems weird to me that the only way to promote my posts is to divulge my personal credit card info to steemit (to buy a banner ad). Why can't I just pay with steem?
If the free-market breaks their precious "all-trending" page, they should re-calculate their formulas.
Cap all votes at 1 steem max (just give whales more max votes). That way the "all-trending" page won't look like "the-whales-personal-faves-parade".
Blaming free-market-forces for "breaking" your system (game) is completely backwards.
IDENTIFY YOUR AXIOMS AND ENGINEER A SYSTEM THAT WILL PRODUCE THE RESULTS YOU WANT.
Expecting vigilantes to police your broken system is insane.
Also, imagine steem without voting. Imagine they just Hard-Forked voting right out of the whole thing altogether.
What's left?
A lot of really awesome stuff, that's what!!
The delegation system is amazing (way better than pa.treon). The steem-token transfer system is amazing (way better than v.enmo or credit-cards or banks). The blogging system is amazing (way better than tw.itter or fa.cebuk). It's all super-awesome!!
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