Interesting - good that people are finally taking a stand against bots that are just harming Steem and taking way to much from the reward pool and sending it to low quality posts - this is like the opposite of the vision of Steem!
I think if all the bots were actually run and managed by humans then it would be fine - acutally reading and approving votes rather than just anyone getting upvotes - this doesnt work!
It can be hard with the blacklist too - Minnowbooster tried to make a stand a while back and ended up blacklisting so many people that didnt deserve to be blacklisted, while others slipped through the cracks
Thanks!
Even with manual approvers, they would still need to meet the demands of delegators and so the standard would be to suit these people.
Blacklist/Whitelist - pointless exercises.
Thanks. Its a lot more complicated than it seems on the surface. ..
There are certainly some good manual curators out there, but also lots more bots who appove anything