The great part of this free market experiment as people begin to boycott bots the creators will either change or die. They will start putting limits on how much you can pay for a vote or limit account buying to accounts under a certain repuation or account value.
Bots and the creators will either evolve or die. I think bots are a great system to get your posts noticed on steemit until a better sorting system is developed or way to get good content in front of users.
What about sorting content according to people's (human beings) interests instead of focussing on the payout?
Haha kind of like facebook, twitter, and all other successful platforms do. Not trolling just admitting you're right.