Yes it's mob rule and you know it very well.

Steem has stake-based voting. It's rule by owners and you should know it. If you don't already know the difference between rule by owners and mob rule, I can't help you.

If you don't wait for it. Millions of steem invested in bidbots will get dumped on you maybe then you'll realize how mob rule destroys any economy. Esp. hypocritical mob rule like this one in which you not only self-vote but also buy votes yourself.

Yes, I self vote every post I make, which is maybe 1-2 times a day but so does pretty much everyone else. 80-90% of my voting power is used to vote on other people's content. I only use @ocdb, a non-profit distribution bot, the very purpose of which is to distribute stake from time to time but only using small bids and a couple of times per week. I stay out of Trending under #newsteem because I'm self-aware enough to know that my work has no place in Trending and I have no need to pay for advertising anything. You bid bot an average quality post to $100 and Trending a week after the inception of #newsteem. They you cry bloody murder when it gets downvoted to $60. Have you no awareness of what has been going on here in the past few weeks?

Your prediction that the stake invested in bid bots will be dumped does not seem to be realizing. Bid bots seem to be on their way to becoming curation projects. @smartsteem is a prime example. It's been doing a lot of manual voting lately. Under the new rules, that is more profitable than ever. Delegators to @smartsteem get their profit from curation rewards gained by the account. @ocdb has been manually curating as well.