I thoroughly understand your concerns about vote purchasing. It's a topic I see you write often about.
You've made your stance on buying votes for your own posts fairly clear. Here is my question to you today: How do you feel about buying votes for others?
Let me explain. I still have relatively low SP. My upvote is only worth $0.07 currently, and that's only because STEEM is irrationally overpriced right now due to speculation. I'm getting some really crazy rewards for silly little comments here and there. But if I see more value in someone else's post than I am able to provide organically, is it wrong for me to use one of the 300% multiplier bots to help curate that content?
I bought a vote for someone once, awhile ago. It felt like I was giving them a gift but when you're new and something grand falls from the sky, it might only offer false hope. You will not be able to buy a vote for that person every time, much like I can't get around to everyone's posts. They will work hard on the their next post and return to that feeling of being invisible when the magic vote doesn't come knocking. The handouts can destroy work ethic and morale.
Your vote is worth 7 cents. That doesn't seem like much when you're surrounded by so much money. It feels like that only because you're comparing it to something. It's best if you can find many minnows that are willing to work together. Build roads now and maintain them. You might get .001 Steem for a curating reward when piling up on something with many votes but a larger share when it's just a few voting on something with 0 votes. There's no reason a post should have zero votes with this many minnows around. Use chat, work together, share links... slowly build yourselves up. It's like a video game. Level up.