The marketing is what it is but I do consider schemes which attempt to manipulate voting or unfairly extract payments from the reward pool (as I strongly suspect to be the case when something like "upvote bots" is part of the mix), to be parasitic scams. They're maybe not scamming their own customers but they are scamming the Steem community and platform with this crap.
Upvoted Bob because of his good work in bringing sunlight on this and in part because of his use of the scam tag.
Keep up the good work Bob.
Thank you smooth.
I'm glad you feel the same about this. They are misusing the platform and completely missing the ideals behind it, which can possibly affect the longevity of the platform, so it worries me. I think this should be commonly known and outcast, but that's just my 2c.
Thank you for your ongoing support, I appreciate it and look forward to creating more content for you all :)