I have no intention of using bought upvotes here on HIVE, for fear of getting smashed to $0 by the downvote police. I don't really have any whales or big players following me, so it's the only way I can get my blogs read on steem. I wish there was a way to pay for a bigger audience to view my posts with no financial loss. Steem has gone back to the old West ways of "anything goesc, and I'm OK with that.