Just to clarify, if vote buying is done reasonably, we will ignore it. We however pass anything where the vote buying is not reasonable.

To come back to the rest of your comment, the funny part is that we tried to attract investor into SteemSTEM. We give back 65% of the curation rewards to the delegator. Of course, we cannot compete with the bid bots in terms of ROI, but we were hoping to get some big shots into it, for the beauty of the SteemSTEM project. It failed in terms of attracting big shots. However, we received a nice support from our community, which is somehow a success.