in all honesty SMTs probably make it a moot point. But it wouldn't be as simple as banning upvote botes - the only way to do that would be to roll back the last hardfork and eliminate delegations and that ain't happening. BTW I just realized I failed to upvote this post before commenting, I wasn't trying to be a douchebag LOL just rectified that with an upvote. Love the original upvote bot art.