I think we should ask Steemit to put some of their stake into professionally run down vote accounts liek steem cleaners, and give them a narrow focus. This is a bid bot abuse flagging bot, this is a plagerism down voter, etc. And have some extremely transparent rules about it. it'll return rewards to the reward pool, and discourage the use of bots on shit posts and 6 day old comments.
I think I prefer the idea of a slider that authors can use. You can set the level going back to the curators on your own posts. So, rather than witnesses hardforking in what the rule is just leave it up to the authors themselves and let the market figure it out.
My idea is to implement it at as a settable value at the blockchain level with a default value preset. That will avoid breaking existing front-ends and let them enable the slider at their own pace (or not at all if they don't wont it).
Close enough :)
I'm on board.