Bidbots are against content
Before bidbots, if you were to ask someone what the best way to earn on Steemit was, the answer would have been to create good content or to make good connections. If you were to ask someone now, it would be to make good connections or to pay for your upvotes. The content aspect of the site has been rendered null and void. Bidbots make Steemit - and other dApps on STEEM - a place where you can pay to get paid, rather than where you create or curate content to get paid.
Shooting people is wrong
We all know that owning a gun does not mean that you should be allowed to go around shooting people. Ownership of property does no equate to permission to use that property to harm others. Therefore, "it is their stake, their choice" and "it's their property, their right" is an illogical stance that has clearly not been thought through by the ones who are saying it.
* It's called a "reward" pool
The creator of STEEM would not have named the daily reward pool as such if it was not for rewarding users. But, a great deal of the reward pool is now allocated towards paying customers. Thus, the reward pool has been seized and is now being sold rather than distributed as rewards. A good way to think of this is that the reward pool is very much akin to the fruit of the Earth, and was intended to provide sustenance to the best content creators and community builders within the ecosystem. Vote-selling equates to the theft of those trees and their fruit, and the demand that we pay to have something that this very platform was designed to distribute for free to those who deserved it most.
* Curation Rewards are for what??
The creator of STEEM foresaw that their would be greedy bastards out there who sought to abuse this system for personal gain, and thus, curation rewards were implemented as a means of incentivizing fair voting. They even went to the effort of adding time penalties to save from people voting on content they had not read and therefor could not determine its quality, again highlighting the effort took to ensure that voting on content remained fair. Why would anyone go to these lengths, or even consider curation rewards at all, if the reward pool was intended to be auctioned off to the highest bidders? It's rather clear no one would have, and so vote-selling is not a natural progression of this ecosystem as many liars have tried to argue. it Is in fact a form of abuse that the platform was designed to counter, and that only after some shady hardforks did it become a viable option for abusers. If we are going to allow bidbots to continue then there is no excuse for the culprits to also be receiving sizeable rewards for voting fairly- in return for them voting unfairly.
Neglected Responsibility
If you are an influential member or an ecosystem where thousands of people are trying to earn money for them and their families, then whether you asked for it or not, you have an obligation to be responsible with your stake, for the ability for everyone else to earn is largely effected by the choices you make with your stake, and thus the quality of life these people and their families will experience also is. If one considers that too much responsibility, then one could simply leave. But beyond the neglected responsibilities of abusive whales on the platform, you and I and everyone else are also neglecting our own. For we already know that Steemit is the first of its kind and an example to the future. So when we set a precedent that the needs of the one are more important than the needs of the entire community, that lesson will be learned a thousand times over by observers of this ecosystem and may find its way solidified into the future economies of the world. But if we recognised our responsibility towards one another, and opted as a community not to make decisions that hurt the majority of us, then that is the lesson that will be learned by observers, and that may ripple its way through economies of the future. In short, we all have a responsibility to one another and to the rest of the world who will use this experiment as a blueprint for tomorrow.
* A final attempt to convince you
If responsibility or fairness is not enough of a motivator to do the right thing, then you are probably a cunt and should seriously indulge in some self-reflection. But perhaps your dignity will matter to you. If you think these whales who are behind this are not laughing at you on a daily basis, then I suspect you'd be wrong. I know I would find it hard not to laugh at you if I was getting away with such rape and being praised for it by the idiots I was impoverishing. Another reason they have to laugh at all of us is the ironic nature of this whole fiasco when viewed through the lens of the Steem whitepaper. Rewards were said to be intended to go towards content creation and community building. I have already explained why the content aspect of this site has been made redundant by vote-selling, as now the best strategy is simply to pay to be paid. But if you consider the fact that every time someone buys or sells a vote they are essentially saying that my share of this reward pool is more important than it being distributed fairly, they assault the very notion of a community spirit by their action, then we can see that vote-selling is in fact a community destroyer and not a community builder, and thus, the ones behind this, are earning the most influence on the network, every day, for betraying the whitepaper and the initial distribution plan in every way possible.
I can think of another hundred reasons not to use bidbots, and now that I will be writing an anti-bidbot post every single day, you can expect to hear about them soon.
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