So, with enterprise advertisements come other endeavors. Public relations isn't just buying ads. Youtool, Fakebook, and Twatter are engaging in public relations campaigns presently by banning reams of their more critical users.
There are already professional flaggers on Steemit paid by sources off chain. It is ludicrously easy to crush almost any account that doesn't have significant financial backing.
This is why I'm even commenting. Whether you bring this to fruition or not, those forces are going to be impacting Steemit at an accelerating rate.
How about this: give me some ideas to protect the social media mechanism of rewarding content creators from being coopted by marketers. Consider it a necessary adjunct to the business of mining attention on a social media platform, since if the platform devolves into mere mining, folks'll bail. It's already on it's last legs. Most upvotes are delivered by bots. Curation trails, and the like, are bots.
You see the growth in new accounts attracted by an idea whose time has come: social media that monetizes the content providers themselves. Us. However you probably haven't learned yet that Steemit retains about ~10% of accounts YOY. 90% of folks bail.
Your idea to better market upvotes isn't going to positively impact that issue on it's face, and will be dependent on that issue being resolved for it's success. So you have the very basis for your proposed business teetering on the brink of collapse, and no one could be more motivated to fix the problem.
Society needs to occur organically, or it will devolve into ever more blatant commercial enterprises. We complain about minimalls and the frankly creepy stalking advertising is based on, and making Steemit an automated marketing and cryptomining scheme isn't going to elicit good content and engagement between people as society must to fulfill our needs as a species.
So, how you gonna reconcile this reformation of the bots with the fact that the bots are degrading society here, and already doing it at an ever increasing rate?
I'd sure appreciate some good news here.