I'm for obliterating the industry. I was cool with the industry when it was not as easy for vote buyers to get screwed over. People cannot effectively calculate their ROI, which is a big no-no. Businesses like being able to quantify their returns. Steem is a big gamble of whatever becomes viral, and account network effect has become ever increasingly more important now.
To me, one of the coolest features of Steem was a promotion service that did not actually cost any money but was mutually profitable as well as helpful to content producers in building awareness of their content. Then y'all fucked that up. The only damn viable utility of the STEEM coin went down the shitter and the only witness with the wisdom to protest was matt.
Using bidbots is not safe. You gave everybody that hates the idea of free market services because of their marxist ideals a big fat red button to blow up our rewards. The upvote services will at least get the fee they charge, but the buyer can have their posts demonetized by flags. For the content producer, that means no profit, time wasted, money lost, working for free.
Want bidbot services to continue to exist? Then offer BUYER PROTECTION for the customers. They need some kind of guarantee, either that you will retaliate against flaggers, or that you will compensate losses.
Until I see anti-flag buyer protection guarantees, no vote service purchases for me...