You did a great job of discussing all the issues. I like many of your thoughts and have argued for them myself (like registering bots). I also realize that many of the solutions you propose can be worked around by the bot makers, so I think that is the biggest hindrance to adopting your solutions. On the positive side I think that yabapmatt is in the process of coming up with his OWN solution to address the issue of the bots taking so many rewards unfairly. I have only seen the hints of it, but I do think he's aware of the issues you've discussed and hopefully he comes up with something awesome for humans! :)
Good post and you should add the #spt tag and also post it in the post promotion on the SPL discord so that more people can see this!!!
Thank you for your comment, davemccoy!
I truly appreciate it. Yes, the captcha ideas are not perfect. If they compare the route of exploiting the system with the registered bot, or trustless scholarship route, I hoped that they would choose the registered bot or scholarship route. So the latter has to be easy and rewarding enough.
I didn't think about #spt tag. thanks!
Absolutely, I hope that Yabapmatt has a great solution too!