Thanks for the upvote, it is giving me back some confidence in Steemit.

and I agree completely.

I am not against business ideas, but bidbots mess up some of the fundamental ideas of Steemit and therefore they simply have to find new ways of using their SP. Even in the most liberal countries you are not allowed to dig up the roads because you think there might be gold underneath.

The reward should reflect peoples valuation of the content - that is the whole idea behind the distribution of Steem. Mess with that and you destroy the system.

Even though I have been here for three years making hundreds of original, professional level artworks and powering almost all of it up I would rather leave this place than succumb to threats from some wealthy racketeer. The way he responded just shows that if newsteem is to work, him and his business model should be something of the past. If not I will simply leave. My 14,000 SP is worth nothing thanks to the bidbots anyway.