It just took me ~4 minutes to read your post. And I have yet to follow any of the links.

And this is the issue I have with voteBOTS.
What was the point of you typing the post if it was not actually read?
Why didn't I use a CommentBOT instead of spending 2-3mins?

Better yet why don't we get some AuthorBOTS to scan the net for great info, and write great interesting articles (with perfect grammar etc) for the CommentBOTS to make comments on and the VoteBOTS can then vote on them?

We can all go to the beach! yippee.

or wait..... maybe we want a SOCIAL site, with SOCIAL interactions.

But that would require HUMANS with a desire for a SOCIAL site.

The human race has been dumbed down to the attention span of a "HEADLINE" by social media. Simple info overload TL;DR style.

If we want social to be better & more social we need to encourage it to be so, rather than accepting a 140char max input / reading criteria

Ban the voteBOTS would be a great start IMHO