Fair. Was actually having a conversation about how minnows and new users can gain some traction on a platform that's currently small enough to be manipulated by so few users. If we limited voting bots to users with under (XX) SP or filtered for minimum reputation, that might help.
Another way we discussed was following the recent Viner invasion to YouTube, the idea of creating an automated "voting ring" system that experienced Steemians could use to bolster their friends when bringing them onto the platform.
One complaint I've had about flagging though is that it costs SP to flag too, which could limit moderators abilities in some circumstances. But as a bit of a newbie myself, I'm still just ankles deep in all this.
I think it's important to be clear about what the problem is. Only then can we start talking about a solution. The problem, as I see it, and as do many others, is that Steem Power is poorly distributed and a very small number of accounts control the vast majority of it, and therefore have the vast majority of control over the entire system.
In that respect the voting bots actually help immensely - they give everyone the opportunity to utilize the voting power of those whale accounts. If all of the whales used their SP to run voting bots instead of using it to mess around with the reward pool as they see fit I think things would be a lot better.