The entire "all bid bots / tribe bots are bad and must be downvoted" idea is just extremely inconsistent. How about AFIT to STEEM conversions, those must be nuked aswel pretty much killing the Actifit project. Also the entire idea is based on a premise where honest curation can be something that works with this system. You know good that a vast minority is willing to power up and browse through all the garbage 'pos2mine' to find a hidden gem to curate it. Steemit is much more find like-minded people to connect with and support each other. With the non-linear reward curve this is pretty much allowed for whales but not for smaller mid-sized users because votes are worth less on less popular posts which makes no sense.
Also, manual curation groups are not scalable and it's clear that they aren't even reading posts but just upvoting the ones who are inside the circle or writing how great steem is. (See Ironical Post).
I agree with stimp1024 (see below) who is an investor himself on the fact that there is a need for something that gives passive investors a reason to invest and get a return as steem has a big inflation. This war of ocd is just crazy, I fully agree that there should be some rules in place but this is really getting extreme and also begs the question where to draw the line.
For big accounts this is all great because all downvotes basically flow back to them along with the fact that it's more profitable to auto-vote those posts. New and smaller accounts are just completely left for dead.