Thank you, @richardcrill, for daring to care about this platform, demanding quality and taking the unscrupulous to task.

Just earlier, today, I posted this notice on the wall of a witness who was guilty of, precisely, what you speak of:

"I wish on a platform like Steemit, with its noble values, money didn’t talk so loudly. This in a sense is what we escaped from in other places, real and virtual to try and pursue an ideal experiment, here.

I wish, too, that bots were seriously looked into. How can quality content providers or artists like myself, who might have talent but no money, compete with money-hungry, unscrupulous folks who buy votes & upvote themselves, regularly, to the top of trending lists?!

I know the world is not fair, and I don’t believe in complaining, but I believe in the promise of Steemit and have only been here a few months & hope to stay & grow."