There will never be a consensus on this topic because the variables are too different from one another. On the one hand you have people who actually curate content and do it "right" and those people should not take a hit for doing what practically any major source of "news" does... curate content. Look at any platform like MSN, Yahoo, Bing, Google News/Trends, AOL and the list goes on and on. They all curate content as a primary business model- at least for those specific pieces of their properties.

There is a fine line between curating and blatant theft and that line has only gotten more blurred with the rise of social media. I think it will ultimately end up policing it's self simply because most of the people who just rip stuff off do a piss-poor job of it anyway.

I mean, if a bot could be developed in such a way that it would benefit steemit then great. I don't think that'll wind up being the case though, we'll wind up with something in place that just does what YouTubes copyright striking does and before you know it we'll see posts getting flagged that simply do not deserve it.