Selling wholesale has replaced per vote selling,

I think L2 tokens replaced Bid Bots. Bid bots was way before my time so I’m not sure how they even worked. I'm not the person that came up with this l2 token being a form of vote selling theory but it seems like a good one.

I was a bro holder before Ray rugged so I used to be ok with this behaviour. That's how bro worked. If you owned the token you would get upvoted.

Splinterlands still sells votes, and has all along.

I’m not sure spl used to do, I don’t think they do it today. I think their manual curation could be better but it’s not my place to criticize their curation efforts. They should be able to curate what they want. If something is getting curated that shouldn’t, then someone can downvote that post. I love spl and want them to be here. But I’m 1 stakeholder, what they do or don’t do is not up to me but everyone.