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RE: The Bot Voting Debate - A possible solution?
My view is that, rather than trying to shackle the bots, shackles which they sooner or later learn how to game, a long-term solution is to reward human interaction. If this does not receive $ in the short-term, although that is a pity, it is not in the final accounting important. I am convinced the long-term value of STEEM is totally dependant on the community being robust. The problem, behind the problem of the bots, is how to get rich-guys to actually read the posts. A thorny problem.
That's why I have been saying for ages a long term interest bearing non vote power contract would give other ways to interact with the economy. Steem Power incentivises bot curation. They could instead sacrifice a little potential reward for a lesser but reasonable amount. and the difference stays in vote rewards.
Disabling their bots from curating would make the "rich-guys read the posts"... They would still want to curate, but would have to pay attention to do so. That is what the curation reward is in exchange for - their attention which they don't give because they can have a bot do the work.
Well maybe. I think what I'm suggesting is that if the attention economy became more valued, in terms of non-steem reward, perhaps social standing, then the whale upvotes would follow.