I suggested a simple and sensible soultion which would get things rolling: make the steemit homepage the promoted tab, thus driving a demand to actually use the promoted function and in turn steadily increasing SBD demand and bringing up the value of STEEM while consequently removing any excuse of using bidbots for promotion.  Making such a change will signal that the stake holders have gained much needed approval to flag the abuse, because in reality how much flagging are the vote sellers and vote buyers gonna put up with once the only excuse behind it is not veiled thinly in promotion and everyone knows it's about bidding and throwing the dice on getting an ROI. If steemit doesn't act and continues to sit on their large stake it's hard to imagine people coming together, because I have no doubt that the large majority of people are inherently good, however they are also not going to stick out their neck when it could cost them everything and that's why steemit needs to take charge and use their stake to promote flagging abuse. In an ideal situation they would have given everyone tools to effectively do that or at least incentives to downvote.