Let me be the first to congratulate our robot overlords, who let me post through their largesse of benevolence! </end sarcasm>
Thanks for such a substantive consideration of this issue (and the shout out =D).
What do you think of @liberosist's proposed VP decay system?
Edit: I looked for the post on mitigation of bots you mentioned at the beginning of this one, and didn't find it. Can you link it for me please?
https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatageek/building-smarter-bots-for-steemit-if-bots-are-to-stay
I will get back to you on the decay idea :)