Marly thank you so much for your input and feedback.

Like you I don't love the bots and have rarely used them in order to do the voting myself.

I consider it one of my key responsibilities to upvote as well as my privilege.

Also thank you for your upvote, they are always a special treat to me.

I personally have been on the fense with these bots. I understand that some investor may need to be able to buy steem and put it somewhere without doing daily work. I was recently at a meetup where I met a hedge fund that has lots of steem, and for them it would almost be unethical to vote. So for them the bots are awesome it is awesome. They get to make money on their investment without any work. That may increase investment into steem. So I see the financial aspect to it from both perspectives. I don't see how bots can go away or how to design steem in a way without them. Do u have any ideas?

Like u i wish there was a way to just count “real” votes and use this to evaluate and reward content. I think these buying of votes distort and corrupt.

However the financial side of things is also helpful, because online on twitter where we can literally buy votes or followers here the meaning is different and always requires investment. If not then the design of steem has issues overall. I a would be curious to see what Dan things of this and what he has in the back of his mind to re-design this economically.

I wouldnlove to chat with you about this some time and get ur perspective on how this could work.

Again thank you for all the wonderful things you have been doing here.

P.s. congrats on making it to the front page the other day with you steem story and congrats on doing it without buying votes.

Much love!