The bots and the way people can pay to have content upvoted degrades the whole point of steemit where good content that interests or excites the reader(s) receive rewards however now we find ourselves ranting how these random ass bots come and post everywhere saying pay me 0.03 SBD and i will resteem / upvote / follow ... IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!
and im not saying all bots are bad for example @cheetah and @originalworks that stop spam and search the internet for similar content to stop copy and pasters are great as they up hold the integrity of the platform
Rant Over ;)
The problem is that the system doesn't work like that. For now the platform lacks a way to distribute content in clever ways. The upvote bots allow people to be seen in the hot and trending categories.
I agree that these bots are somehow counterintuitive to the platform but it seems that this is exactly where the platform is going to and it will increase ten-fold and more if they don't change the underlying mechanics.
Is that a bad thing? Not neccessarily, it depends what we as a hive mind do with that. So far it is a fun anarcho-capitalistic ride.
fun anarchy-capitalistic ride. has got to be one of the best ways of describing something :)