A project created to stop/counter a different project will never reach as far as if it had its own goal.

It’s like trying to create a sheriff instead of genuinely trying to find a solution to the problem.

People want to get compensated for their writing, so until some type of “basic income” is given to users, then people will continue to figure out different ways to get paid for their words.

Sure spammers exist, but most of us (😂😂😂) on Steemit, who spend hours on the platform really value our own words. If we didn’t value our words, we wouldn’t spend so much time commenting. People get compensated, either with community, dreams of future investments, or actual incomes, but people need to be compensated.

Using upvoting services has an art form to it. You have to find the profitable ones, you have to get “whitelisted” you have to weigh the investment, you have to watch your payout go down when the price steem goes down, etc etc etc. People don’t “just” profitably use bots - they have to work for it!