That might all be true. But @berniesanders using bots to indiscriminately down vote each and every comment, including critical comments like mine, is not the answer either.

Quite the opposite. Both sided deploying The Bots Of War will destroy Steemit.

I too think that steemit should favour manual curation. But I fear it is to late for that. We would need some painful (for the whales) changes to salvage Steemit.