Good points, a very important issue that rears its' ugly head when it comes to all online activity. The bot presence on steemit of dead accounts is definitely there (I actually wrote a few brief articles on the platform, if you'd like feel free to check them out). I saw 11% of accounts started last year posted 30 or more times, making that barely more than twice a month. 1/9 of the platform brings value to the rest, funny how that turns out, huh? I think there should be more selectivity, more of a cost to join because giving these accounts away is encouraging the exact same thing. I would like to see an "Untalking Dead" initiative on here where accounts are placed on a 90 day chopping block one time as a warning if they are not used at least once a every ten days (on the average) at any given time to post original content, or they can void this by delegating all steem in their account. Sounds very harsh, but the vast majority of dead weight on here could easily be cleaned up if the community wished to.
That, or we could apply a bleeding of the stake (or halting interest payments on SP) for inactive users. That would achieve the same thing over time and encourage users to be active. Unfortunately, I don't see such a change ever occurring but it's an interesting idea.
Steemit could make things harder by using different verification schemes prior to being able to receive payout or they could stop giving money away to accounts. But as the same time, we want Steemit to give away their money in order to decentralize the power of the platform. Things to consider.
Yeah I am likely pretty hardcore on the thought, glad to hear your response, keep posting the great thought provoking material many of us think but surely can't articulate in a practical, coherent sense like you @greer184!