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RE: Slaying The Bots: Saving Steemit, Busy, and Other Steem Concentrators.
Apt description of the problem but, being one that codes a degree of automated voting operations for various reasons, such as rewarding non-self voting for example, I have mixed feeling about the solution.
I think a more gradual solution could be achieved by requiring the bid botters to decline rewatds so the bots function is more promotional in nature.
I'm doubtful this will change. Many bid bot owners use their bots stake to self-voting their witness making it difficult for those that represents the non-bot interest to have adequate influence to make these sort of changes.
The problem is that you can't actually reliably detect bots. So you cannot reliably detect bid bot users. Anything attempted to do to detect them is looking for a pattern. All they have to do is change that pattern. Also doing this it becomes increasingly likely people that are not bots or accounts that are not bots will be false identified as bots.
This is NOT something anyone out there has reliably solved. If they did they'd have a high million or even billion dollar product.
This is why captchas exist. They do not detect bots, but they make a barrier it is difficult for bots to solve, but easy for humans.