If something is not done, pay to play upvote bots will be the beginning of the end of Steemit. Why the Frack will people spend time and energy creating valuable thought provoking content, if you can just post BS and pay to get it trending?

It's all very sad. Make me reconsider whether I really would like to post my novel here. Maybe I should just start gaming the system too.

Oh yeah, that pesky conscience of mine.