You understand I own half of the steembottracker.com website? I did that early on because I thought then as I do now that as long as we're in HF 19 that's the reality of how the platform works. More importantly the bid bots are a transparent way for anyone to receive advertising and a way for investors to be rewarded without having to scroll through content they don't give a shit about.

It makes it so that the price of steem is elevated and now anyone on the platform has the ability to get attention to their posts not just a handful of connected whales that were circle jerking and vote selling on just a handful of people.

I fought HF19. I launched posts calling it a circle jerk and a clusterfuck. No one listened, and I don't think that Steem is going back to exponential rewards. So, the best thing to do is work with bot owners to implement white lists, blacklists, and try to take away shit posts.

I have a right to spend my money to buy votes which supports this platform as a whole and makes it so that people want to own steem. You can't simply make bid bots vanish and even if you could you'd simply shove vote selling into backrooms again.

I agree things should be done like making a separate pool for downvoting to make it easier for price discovery without costing anyone any curation rewards and for adding a down vote button which would impact rewards but not rep so you're not threatening the livlihood of an author when you flag.

Overall, these are good suggestions that will help, but they aren't as important as what Steemit is workin on now, namely velocity, communities, and SMTs, so I support their plan and will wait till those other projects are done to fix curation.

In the meantime, if you're pissed about spammers taking advantage of the bots, which hasn't really been possib;le for the last month, then I suggest you use bid bots on good posts otherwise the terrorist will win and can more easily purchase votes.

I have a radio show on Sunday night at 9pm EST. Come on air and talk to me about this and i'll publish the recording. Show's in PALnet. Maybe I'll see you there.