I am not familiar with the service you mentioned, but whitelisting/blacklisting sounds good and also there is nothing wrong with rewarding good content. However, the idea of just ordering votes in general is harming the Steem ecosystem, because it means that lot of people will abuse it for quick gain and don't focus on long term vision of Steem, building connections. Most of them cash out and never invest/power up and give back to the community. If you buy votes and power up with the thought that you want to grow your account, influence on platform and being around for the long run it is a little bit different, but most of the time people are greedy and don't believe in Steem enough. Also the ones that are running the bots are profiting mostly and not the community. They take the big cut and feed scraps to people that use their services. Most of them don't even check where the votes land. I wish there was a solution to this, but bots are unlikely to go away anytime soon.

I am more for organic growth, but at the same time I find it unfair that good users don't get curated and some greedy people take away from them via bots and abuse.

I can't say what other people should or shouldn't do. It all depends what is the idea they have in mind when they order those votes. All we can do is to keep in check with the morals, ideas and common sense we each have.

Hehe, I actually have never seen the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I have heard of it a lot though. Maybe it is time to finally watch it :)