Always good to get people thinking.
Buying votes is something that can happen on all of STEEM... it's not something localized just to the steemit.com interface. Many of us don't even use that interface anymore.
"Buying votes on Steemit: is it all bad?" = "Buying votes on Steem: is it all bad?"
i agree @jarvie actually I tried to be very careful and clear about when I was talking about Steem or Steemit. Since they are both from very different from each other. Steemit just happens to be on the steem blockchain.
I use a mixture or busy.com and steemit. com but I'm sure with time a lot of this will expand even further away from each other.