100% agreed.

Bots completely break the principles of good curation, and they're eventually going to kill the platform. Rather than being a social media platform, SteemIt is quickly becoming a platform whose best-selling content is more advice on how to make money on SteemIt.

That's not good for growth. Nobody outside of SteemIt cares about these articles, and anyone who wants to use the platform for anything outside of making money is going to be sorely disappointed.

I think the community really needs to take a step back, and look at what's good for their bank accounts versus what's good for the platform. Removing the bot industry and bringing back manual curation could do wonders for creating real content on the network. SteemIt could be hundreds of times bigger than it is if it can find appeal with a broad audience - But so far it's floundering in these efforts.