What goes on under the hood here is just a little too intricate for me to bother with Sulty. As long as the choices above board are intelligently weighed by intelligent people, that is fine by me.

Voting bots, nah. I have not noticed any of those clever enough to know the difference between poo and peaches, so using any of those for levering myself into a better position is out. It just does not feel right.

I came into this community trusting that the system was designed, nobody cheating, to work just fine in favor of those with good intentions. And I still trust this is the case.

Fact is though, just as in the real world you don't put on a bullet proof vest going to the local coffee shop and neither do you leave a guard by your table when you go to the loo, so steemit has it's vulnerabilities that innocent members of the community trust nobody will misuse.

But just as street crime in the real world is on the increase due to moral decay in general, for reasons not always easy to put your finger on, so on this platform a growing number of pick-pocket/shoplifting types have discovered as lucrative a place to ply their trade as on a thronging open market square.

A-a-anyhow, my policy is to keep plying my way as soberly and as 'clean' as possible, spending more time at it (as hopefully my part of the 3D world will shortly allow me - harrowing couple of months behind me, with a visit to my children living more than 2000km apart still in the pipeline!); the way things are, regarding those who cheat at scoring, the best I can do is to do what I can on the educational side and vote for big guns who could perhaps help change the rules and the environment in favor of curbing bad behavior.

Sorry for perhaps drifting little off topic here, but I trust you will understand.

Thanks for the clean looking tips!
Cheers!