What these guys are do is simply more than excessive vote buying. I have no problem if people buy votes to promote or even get ROI for their posts but their crap content is so shit! No way I can be calm. Of course the bid bot has a client relationship and if they pay the bot votes but they should add them on a black list moving forward if e.g. @steemcleaners adds them to their black list.
For sure they make no profit from buying the votes - what concerns me most is they defend their work as quality or ART lol - OMG - i would laugh a bit if i would be not sad looking at their posts. This has to stop in my opinion - I can not do a lot about it apart from saying it.
I'll be willing to back off a bit on my standpoint about vote buying if it means we have a way of calling bullshit on bullshit content raking in excessive rewards.
I think we need the flagging accounts to be non-posting so they cannot be flagged and so nobody can be accused of benefiting from the delegation. @hendrix22 has a couple already. I'll support others that do this.
Wouldn't it be great if one could buy flags?!
No way that could end badly :) I'd expect someone to offer it if there is demand. Money talks
Money talks loudly... and wars never lack budget, so you are right, this could end badly ;)
I guess we'll need a flagging culture for everyone, as strong as the upvote culture. For now, steemit is just too positive for that, and everybody is scared of being critical.
(sorry, some unfinished thoughts)
This sounds like a possible soloution.