Yes, the goal of Steemit should be to stimulate the network effect of newcomers joining, being rewarded, then regularly posting content, encouraged, like Pavlov's dog, to post more. Ultimately, everyone on the Steemit platform benefits from that, because a rise in active users encourages prospective investors to believe that Steemit (and Steem) will one day take over the social media world, so they invest in Steem, and the price of Steem goes up. Bidbots discourage new users from participating, by dispiritingly displacing good content with mediocre content on the trending page, which in turn drives away investors. Steemit has the lead spot in tokenised social media, which I am dead sure is the way of the future, which is why I joined Steemit this week. In the future, all social media platforms will be tokenised, because advertising based social media will be killed by adblocking, and the like. In the future, instead of advertising, brands will buy tokens on social media platforms, and distribute them to visitors of their contents' pages by the likes, votes on comments, or whatever. When Cocoa Cola and Apple buy Steem and set up contents pages on Steemit, because they perceive Steemit's active user base large enough to be worth interacting with, that will be when the network effect will be unstoppable. The imperative should be to achieve network dominance before other Social media tokenised platforms (EOS is coming) catch up by creating an eco-system which rewards content creators more than Steemit does. Bidbots are a poison in the blood of the system, stagnating growth, and allowing other platform builders time to catch up. Steemit is winning, and we shouldn't blow it. We will all win big if Steemit achieves the network effect. :)
EOS is coming :) Sell all your STEEM and buy a keyboard with an Enter key that works LOL