Code is physics - that's inescapable. Physics doesn't prevent me from punching random strangers - there's something more going on than "Code is Law". Communities evolve their behaviour guidelines.
My own feeling on bots is that they are a good visibility tool in an environment where visibility is hard to get. If we fix the visibility issues (that's complex) then the reasons for bots, barring pure ROI plays, disappears.
Bots aren't spamming the comments are much as they used to - which is great. I think that was probably a bigger issues for the optics of steem than the fact there are bots.
I'm a bit worried about upvote bots being used once an author has a sizeable audience. But I'm also happy that the value is being recycled (mostly) back into the steem economy.
I've been toying with a thought experiment around visibility: how many users would accept a small "promoted post" section in their feed? The thing about promoted posts is that people have to "burn" their steem (smoking?) and so they are increasing the value of steem by doing that. I'd be willing to try just because it might increase the use of promoted posts and smoking.
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yes, in the feed is where promoted posts should go... or in the hot\trending areas, where people are already looking... not on it's own separate hidden tab...
A smoking corner? Sounds reasonable to me :)
im ok with it because i basically never look at my feed, unless it comes thru gina