Many people are dissaponted and frustrated while others are happy. Thats the situation and I read about 5 or 6 posts regarding the bots/human war.
I used bots before and use them now once in a while. I dont see anything wrong with that. Bots are supposed to be for Minnows to help them promote their posts and gain some visibility.
- Whales using bots! Thats what I find wrong, because they have enough SP and will rank on the top automatically.
- Bots upvoting bad content or plagiarism is wrong as well. And as they are bots and dont check every post, what makes it difficult to keep everything under control.
My suggestion is:
- Limit the usage of bots. Put an SP limit for users. Whoever has enough SP and a good upvote value shouldnt use bots.
- Push all promoted posts whether by bots or Steemit to the "promoted" section. That way everything will be nice and clean :)
As a web developer myself, I know it would be hard or almost impossible for an automated system to tell what posts were being promoted by bots and which weren't and to create a long-term solution such as an SP user limit for bots and pushing bot promoted content to promoted, because the bots are an external system.
I'm sure there is something out there that developers are working on. Most likely from the private/user sector. Perhaps the core devs have their eye on this and are watching to see how the community responds... maybe.
Thanks for your suggestions! It's important to be results-oriented sometimes.