I delegate to Smartsteem and have no qualms about it..
- Vote selling is going to happen , it's better that it happens in a transparent manner so everyone can participate.
- A better critique would be of the spam fighting/promotion done by any bid bot
- Steem community needs to make up it's mind , do we want STEEM investors or not ? Investors keeping locked SP is good for the price as far as I can tell.
- I am a capitalist pig , who wouldn't be able to put hard earned money into STEEM unless there was some mechanism like smartsteem.
Yes , one might say that bid bots as a whole are keeping the price down so the price would moon if there were no bid bot and each token would be worth 100x , for that I say , that's just a theory , it's not impossible but we have no way knowing. We did not have bid bots for a long time in the start were we mooning in that timeframe?
Would we have the same issues if this whole system was called advertise your post vs bot boost your post?