I do not think of voting bots in the same way that this meme depicts. I think anyone can succeed at curating and a bot is only as good as his programmer and the investment that went in to creating him. Bots distribute author rewards and hold a stake. This means that they do bring value to the platform. Thank you for this insightful meme.
I have a hard time to agree with that. Bot owners -in general- do have a big stake, but they are not using it to "curate" the platform. In fact, they are 'selling' their vote power - in blatant detriment to the "Proof of Brain"concept, which is the heart of "fair distribution of pool rewards".
If you sell your vote to anyone wiling to buy -in order to promote low quality content- the "Proof of Brain" is destroyed. Rewards are not going to feed the producers of "good content".
Well, this is my current view... I keep thinking a lot about this, also reading here and there.
Indeed, there is a relevant fraction of the Steemit community discussing this theme.
Thanks for your inputs!
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