If you want to help people teach them how to write good content and build communities on the platform. Buying votes are going to help you in the short-term more than it will help them in the long-term.
Just like all your get-rich-quick videos on YouTube is not really helping Steemit. It just makes it look bad and scammy.
For example, If you really wanted to help people you would just point them to AnonSteem for instant account creation instead of trying to charge them $50 to create an account on a free website. Just because you apologized later when people called you out on it does not take away from the fact that you tried to capitalize on a new person coming to the platform and not knowing they had that option.
When I want to help someone join Steemit instantly I actually use anonsteem and pay for it out of my own pocket, then when they make their intro post I make a post about them and send people their way, then when my post about them pays out I transfer the SBD to their new account, actually paying them to get started. I have done this more times than I can count. That is helping people.
What you're doing is just trying to make a buck off of them.