The idea was that promotion shouldn't be free and it sure as hell shouldn't be profitable!.. Use a bidbot if you like to get your post noticed but know that you will loose money if it's not a well written post because people are out to get bidbots right now...

I agree, it's not what you know it's who you know on steemit and until things like bidbots go away that won't change because its the whales that own these bots. We continuously line their pockets with real money from a free vote being sold!?!. Selling votes was the reason @dan left and created EOS, cuz he could see how that was going to ruin the platform and it did!

I do think we an option for post promotion but it should never be free (or profitable) or you will have nothing but spam on steemit.

Honestly we (the 99%) should start a downvoting trail for all these circle jerking whales, that would help a lot of the issues on steemit because it would take away some of their power and make the community feel like they have some sway on the platform..

I understand why you want post promotion but the option of bidbots are not viable for the steem ecosystem and we know that so we have to come up with something new, we can't keep beating a dead horse...

Just one crazy hippies opinion though ;)