because it will have "Video will play after ad" or "Promoted content" slathered all over it.

Precisely my point. And there's a certain irony in that, in the sense that Steemit was built on this whole "freedom" and "non-censorship" thing... transparency.

And then we're basically hiding that a bunch of people pay $100s to make themselves look popular. No... your shit isn't "popular," it's just promoted to the heavens to appear that way.

I've always thought that was bogus.

I also think people should be completely free to buy as many bidbot votes as they want... that's their issue and choice. But let's call a spade a spade.