Hi, thanks for your comment and, in general, I agree with you. The essence here is that there is a mutual interest in participants promoting this post and themselves. If one of them were to ask me if they really had to promote MAP, then I would have made an error of judgment in letting them join in the first place. This hasn't happened yet; indeed, some have written dedicated posts describing their experience here.

In this very particular case, I am aware of the chatroom and the admins and people in it, so promoting this MAP6 there should yield positive effects.

So, yes, the nature of the Steemit stream is that posts need to be promoted in order to achieve some level of traction, but resteeming is not the one and only way of doing so. Thanks again!