@themarkymark. It is really unfair if this bot thing continue and people get away with here on steemit. For the minnows we are just trying to gain recognition with quality content,they are being cheated if people who use upvote bots have their way and their say.
I think steemit should devise a way to blacklist completely from the system.Punitive measures should be in place so that those of us who do not use bots looks stupid.
All platforms have advertising and promotion and the ones that use it do better than those who don’t. The fact it is being abused with crap is a problem though.