It's not hard to see that it also plays right into the hands of the vote bid bots by making their curation rewards outweigh the immediate and direct profits of selling votes, it might make them even more powerful and entrenched. The fact is that there is a feature designed to promote posts in a healthy way but that feature needs to be polished some more, and then again it might not work, as then the promoted section will be over-run and the bots might still be that extra advantage over the other promoted content that people would run to in order to be bumped up above the rest so we are at "there will always be vote bots".

This exemplifies what I remarked to the idiot virtue signaling charity a few comments above, about "good ideas", which hardly are good or considered and aren't really good ideas but in reality are piss poor excuses for ideas, least good.

I don't think it's against the spirit of decentralization, and I think one trap people constantly fall into with this issues is blaming the faceless mass of investors for the way things are and I say challenge that nonsense even when its merely insinuated because it fosters the polarizing us vs them mentality and that division cannot possibly be healthy for growing a community.