Steemit is mostly bots, with a few unsuspecting humans in the mix.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but the veil has been lifted and I suspect this to be true.

Between yourself and @paulag, the picture it is painting is not optimistic.

Its more like automation gone rogue, rings of bots commenting to each other, spamming one-liner throwaway "Good post like pictures" among other canned replies.

There's been theories about unfettered automation taking over the world through nanomachinery (the "grey goo" scenario), what we have here is the Goo-ification of social media platforms.

It needs to be addressed, or the whole endeavor is doomed.