Yeah a lot of salaries in play, imagine if such a thing were to happen, how many bidbot owners will feel endangered and resort to even more obvious abuse, trying as hard as possible to give the appearance of plausible deniability while the scheme is by and large visible to anyone with a bit of sense and some curiosity.

I guess what I am saying is that changing the Promoted Tab to be the current homepage of steemit.com should be up for a vote, and since nobody wants to hear the idea, I will get a larger microphone and start moving around this place pitching it to anyone, because everyone is who will have the voice. If it were to pass without any discussion even, that an overwhelming majority wants to implement this and sees the clear benefits which by a simple front end change can solve what has become a crisis in terms of what the purpose of a vote and what abuse is (curate and abuse is invalidating that function, generally by paying oneself simply to pay oneself), it brings up to light the purpose of the Promoted Tab which will drive up our economy if people were to spend minimally in the promoted tab, vote selling would be forever looked down upon as a large majority understand what promotion is, which is healthy for the economy and doesn't inflate one's reputation or Wallets artificially while the other is literally a SCHEME of paying yourself and that is before the fact that it invalidates the function of curation and rewards, and the users of all these bots know this, because if they were to not play roulete with other's voting power and being the very DEMAND that allows these bots to function while fleecing them off and funneling the cash in an endless cycle not into powering up accounts but into the pockets of a few who are shown how little they care about blatant abuse because they can point to the demand.

Last year we had the Whale Experiment and all it required was a few whales to actually care about the economy. This time it will require literally a code change that takes less than 10 seconds and which can be undone at any time, how hard can it be to run this for 30 days and observe the results? The potential outcome would either be marginal to negative if it doesn't immediately have a noticeable effect on vote selling while creating a demand, an actual demand for using the Promoted Tab, But which wouldn't even need to be called Promoted anymore but Index.html and give people a chance to promote, if people promote crap, they will get downvoted, if people vote sell still they can get downvoted, it's simply abuse, it's the exact same abuse that gets excused by "it's their stake, they can tank the economy if they want with it, how dare you say or do anything other than that", and thankfully if the downvoting works all we'll hear about it is how it's not fair, which is fine, because life's never fair. How about that, no-brainer, only promoted posts can appear on the homepage which is ACTUAL exposure and not blown up curation, but it can be and this might actually drive whales to curate instead to be competing with one another for more stake. If people really want the exposure lets to make a demand for it, then promoted might actually mean something and not be mitigated to the back while whales probably go there to point and laugh at steemit.