Great post schattenjaeger.

I believe that vote-buying became necessary when Steemit attracted so many users that the created tag became literally unreadable.

And at that time you actually had to be the golden boy, to get votes from bigger accounts, because only then, you'd get seen by other human readers.

In contrast, today - the only thing you need are 2 things:

1.) A solid post
2.) Enough SBD / STEEM to boost it with

No more waiting and hoping that a big curator upvotes your post.

Everbody can decide their own success on Steemit - thanks to vote-buying.