The problem isnt the bots themselves its people and their greed - posting shitty content and just buying upvotes. Because of the decentralised nature of steem its hard to manage and make any rules around the bots. Some of the bot owners check content for quality but most to not.
My suggestion for steem was to create an 'organic' trending page that took account for bit votes and would give minnows more visibility:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@conradt/make-the-trending-page-great-again-organic-trending
Thoughts?
I understand why you feel this way. But this is not a blockchain level issue. Its a front end issue. Additionally, the goal of the communities feature will attempt to solve this in a better way. I think the front end experience is secondary to making sure the blockchain is scalable, which is why we havent seen communities feature launch yet. There are a lot of moving parts and steem is a very complex system.
So I think you have the right idea, but there is a better way to implement it.
Cool thanks for clearing it up for me :) Yeah Steem it a complex machine and everything has consequences and is probably hard to implement.
Yeah it was just an idea as Im not an expert on Steem or programming etc