RE: 10 little idiots: trying to answer | if everyone delegates to bidbots?
Solution to the problem IMO.
Why can't the promoted page work for exposure if it's truly about exposure? Well personally I've never looked there. So how about ditch the promoted tab and merge it into Hot and call it a day.
Now a minnow can buy some views but no ROI for them or any vote sellers. If the post is high quality and deserves upvotes the paid spot on Hot or Trending will get the post rewards, if not then they know they need to work on their quality.
With one payment you get X amount of views on Hot and with a high enough payment the post can be featured on Trending. A clear cut fee structure based on the popularity of the tags you want to be featured for. You want to be featured for a hot tag it costs more then a lessor tag.
Think of this like the paid spots in google search results. Paid spots are merged into the non paid spots.
Then burn those SBD helping the entire steemit community as the liquid SBD would decrease.
Member can actually pay for true promotion to increase viewership and everyone gets higher value as the Steem or SBD can be burned reducing total float.
Win-Win
The bots take away the feedback required to improve, it rewards whatever the author dishes.
But, but what about the liquid profits??
This payment would be to a burn wallet of Steemit and there wouldn't be any upvote given in exchange. You just get promotion for your payment. 100% true paid promotion.
All the bot owners claim that it's about promotion and getting exposure for the little guys. If that is the case then no vote in exchange for payment is needed, just the actual results of reaching Hot or Trending based on the size of payment.
Good luck selling that one ;)
Edit: Oh, I agree btw. Promotion price is paid to promote not to get profit from the payment.
Oh I know that...lmao. But it honestly is the perfect solution to giving the exposure that paid votes is supposedly there to achieve while not effecting the reward pool.