SteemCleaners or some other consensus group needs to have enough SteemPower to counter the amount of abuse on a daily basis.
End users don't want to and shouldn't have to sacrifice their rewards to clean the platform. WIth an elevated peg giving massive post rewards that certainly won't happen now.
But isn't this some kind of capitulation? (To me it seems everybody here is blaming somebody else... the end-users, the bots, Steemit.Inc,...) Shall we see it as an experiment? It looks like the end of it is already clear by now. Wouldn't that create something like a domino-effect? If Steemit becomes a trash and merchandising platform... why should users come to it, when Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter already exist? I like the idea of SMTs and new apps created on the Steem blockchain. But when that happens to the flagship called Steemit, won't it happen to the other apps too? Will the blockchain create more freedom or just more freedom for already existing markets? When we don't do something now, our non-doings can create a butterfly-effect. Do we want value and proof of brain or proof of money? Proof of money often isn't proof of brain. Proof of money... the internet is already full with this. In my opinion everybody is responsible. But those with the most influence are more.