Until Steemit Inc actually pulls their fingers out of their behinds and actually fixes the problems facing this platform, we can talk about how things could and should be on Steem, but ultimately this platform is going to continue to be a cesspool of rampant reward pool abuse and power imbalance. The problems on this platform are design flaws, the kind of flaws only STINC can fix and thus far have shown they have no interest in fixing or cannot fix.
The biggest improvement that STINC can make to this platform is de-incentivise self-upvoting and further incentivise upvoting other peoples content instead. For as long as it is more profitable for a whale to self-upvote than it is to upvote someone else's content, bidbots are the least of our concerns. But I agree they're a problem and we need some kind of official framework around them.
Hi @geggars, @ura-soul , I share your view, and have some posts in this issue Link Here.
This is the situation we should have on mind.
We need the Steemit Community to understand CLEARLY and once for all
how their valuable contribution to this platform is being ripped off from them.
One of the reasons why self upvoting isn't being addressed is that it cannot be addressed - since all that is required to circumvent any controls is to open other accounts and vote for those instead.