The people in charge of SE and SM both have a history in vote selling.

Not that both of them don't do any good but there is a flip side to it that most people are not cognizant of.

I think Matt knows that there are irreconcilable issues with vote selling as he had conceded that it is not good to delegate to a bid bot if you plan to be active on the platform.

However, I am sure he is savvy enough to understand under the former system that considering the time and effort that it is a no brainer to just sit on your butt and delegate. That is if we are considering economy if effort in our ROI.

HF21 Steem is a bit of a different beast but it seems the same forces that had previously spoiled the good are reconfiguring themselves in different forms.

I am glad @lordbutterfly brought this up as it is something every Steem user should be wary of. We want sidechain tokens to exist such as a mutualistic organism. Like remora to a shark eating the parasites.

But what we have is many profiteers migrating to a new model of parasitism..well at least that is what I suspect.

Guess we give it time and see how it develops.

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