At the inception of these vote selling bots, I was against them. Go ahead and trek back in my blog. You'll find it.
I even tried to do analysis on how much all bots were hurting the community. It was too hard to identify all of the bots back then, but there were many. And like now, nobody cared, the rich kept getting richer and the poor kept quitting the platform because of discouragement or lack of return. And some of those who quit were actually highly beneficial to Steemit.
By nature, all voting and posting bots are hurting the little guys. Because these bots are profiting the rich and giving the poor little-to-no reward while the rich reap 100+% rewards for each 5% minnow reward. It's terrible..
People like you are always finding ways why the world is unfair!
Truth is - STEEM is not perfect but there are enough ways to earn Steempower and SBD - without the need to be a wealthy person.
Fun fact: 3-4 months ago I had less than 200 Steempower. 6 months ago I started working on smartsteem.
It took me at least 1500 hours of work to get to the point where I am now.
You call that unfair? I call that hard work.
Unfair? Did I use the word unfair?
I looked really hard in my comment and didn't find that word once. Where did I say unfair?
No, if anything, I said Manipulative. Opportunistic. Selfish. Nope, never used the word unfair.
Maybe as part of those 1500 hours you spent, you might have tried to improve your reading comprehension?
Cheers, mate!