Trying to throttle the bots is becoming critical. If something does not happen the value of steem will go towards zero. If you do not open a post, are you really a consumer? I am not sure what the answer is here, honestly. I know I had some steem on poloniex quite a while back and that I learned about the platform much later. Looking at the currency evolve and seeing blocktrades offer "power" as an option is kind of hopeful.