Excusing one abuse with another is not a great argument, you will have to admit. And this is not about my personal succes, this is something that strongly relates to the longterm succes of the whole steem plattforms. Sure, big time selfvoting is not a great thing too. But Value that is transferable (social, financial, relating skills) is something that is less arguable (see f.e.x Bourdies Social Theory) than advertising or abusing via Bidbots in my opinion.