Yes I guess it could've better if we implemented ABV first and started HUNT token distribution on votings categories before we even scaled up to this point.. (before we started delegation sponsors).
We just didn't expect this much SP delegations before, and the problem just started happen after our voting power became very high (We had a decent community members and curation quality when our community was small). I'm not sure how things would've been if we started HUNT distributions for postings / commenting categories first.. maybe there could be less problems like what you said, but people could've been still abusing the system to get more HUNT tokens..
Yes, thanks for your thoughtful response and I really do understand your situation where you at right now. I think the voting bot situation is a general problem within Steemit and there are reasons why these Bots are good and not so good. I hope you will find a good solution for your platform (maybe when SMT is ready than moderators could enforce "anti-Bot-rules") till than I wish you all the best with Steemhunters. Keep up the good work!