The fact that about 80-90% of the reward pool is tied up in vote selling is a goddamn nightmare...

To some they call it the free market, they will even reason in their savant retardation that bidbots help maintain a demand for steem, these people suffer from myopia, they can't see that curation rewards are the way to the content consumer's pockets and if they see that then they can see that without enough curation rewards there's no demand for steem, as for the "but bidbots are filling up a market niche", much like prostitution does the same thing..