If you ask me, advertising is already part of the Steemit ecosystem... Be it voting bots or the Promoted section.

I do not like the idea of ads interfering with the way of my content consumption like banner ads all over the site or more irritatingly commercial breaks as in YouTube while watching videos (how foolish was I when I completely moved from TV to the internet because I was pissed with ad-breaks).

If advertisers open accounts the same way we do and promote the content the way we do, then I don't think we have the right to stop them.

At the same time, the system should have mechanisms to ensure that advertising dollars do not take over the platform in a way that indie content creators are just gobbled up by big money.