RE: How bots are being used by bad actors here on Steemit as a loophole to earn Steem.

[johnchamberlain]

I think so, the incentive system, rewards for curation and participation also called the attention ecconony by other platform developers is interest. Was listening to a talk by Sam Kazemian, CEO of everipedia earlier, think he described it as being as complex as designing blockchain delegation and voting, something along those lines anyway.