@twinner
you really made excellent points and remarks in your post and glad you had great time at steemfest... i cannot agree more with your submissions to @ned on best ways going forward and i trust @ned is already looking into the challenges of self upvoting and leasing/buying upvotes which will impact on steemit negatively... keep it up and thanks for sharing...
Thank you very much for your words @kenhudoy. I assume that ned was not real aware of the existience of these kind of bots.
he should know afterall steemit is his baby project and a wise man like him never forgets a cute baby with huge potentials...;) welcome as always....