How is that even possible today? :p
For what it's worth, I do feel sorry for you in that you are clearly the most pro-active bot owner in dealing with obvious spam accounts.
I understand the frustration of many seeing utter shit in Trending which is promoted by one person, and clearly not the content that the community wish to see at the top.
HardFork 17(i think 17) gave us delegated Steem Power, thus the birth of the bid-bots. What people forget is that it also gave Steemit and other accounts the ability to delegate stake to projects like @dtube, @utopian, @dlive, @sndbox, @curie, etc.
In addition to that, the ability to delegate SP to individuals (something I do to 10+ accounts for no financial gain) has seen a massive boost in engagement in my part of the Steemit world.
The prime example of this was a recent delegation of @fulltimegeek to around 50 accounts with 350,000 Steem Power - the mission being to do the curation and engagement work of 1 account x 50.
Personally, I think that delegated Steem Power has offered more good than bad. The future is not steemit.com, it is the applications that are here and in the pipeline, that will need delegated Steem Power to kickstart them.
Feel free to send @buildawhale over to my 'house' for dinner tonight :)
I agree partially. It brought the bit-bots. And some bit-bot-problems with it. Maybe these problems can be solved without "killing the bots". Maybe it could be regulated in some way.
Maybe there lies a big future in applications and the pipeline, but I am sure there are still many people who are interested in Steemit and don't want to see it drowning in shit-content.