If we were live we would have tools to and incentives to address this such as a bot registry and way to track bots that are gaming the system and swarm into action, by reupvoting.
Mmmm a bot registry... so decentralized. Maybe we just do some kyc on sign up too? Require uploading id's, social security numbers for taxes?
You can kill the host to harm the parasite all you want. Id rather just hit the "mute" button on the bots. Sure beats being the judge jury and executioner like cheetah. A bot that actually spams more text than most of the bots.
Lets not forget, cheetah can whitelist you though..... so thats good I guess. If anything harms steemit, its going to be the gatekeepers who decide to use their whale weight in order to downvote just because they dont like bots.
It's intended to be voluntary. You register the bot you get to play the bot games, you get access to our information, get to learn what we know and explore something more challenging than copy/paste 10 lines of text from 3 month old blog posting.
Your bot starts acting up and someone knows who to talk to.
No we don't upload ids but it is a free leash and dog collar for your pets in case they get lost.
Nevertheless this is a blockchain, there's no way to enforce anything except by changing the economic incentives in such a way it benefits people and you'd have to talk to the devs about that.