This is insanely interesting.

This estimating is showing that the number of posts with 1+ comments reduced by 73% if we remove comments from bots. Therefore 73% of posts have received a comment from a bot. The total comments have reduced by 85%. That is massive. That suggests 85% of comments are left by bots. Suggesting only 15% of comments are human

As a matter of fact, I am seeing this place to become something else entirely, because of bot activity.

At first sight, this could be awful to look at, but in the last few days, I am starting to notice a certain pattern here. Like a change of dynamics. Like a website with a different kind of movement. Not bad. Different.

I think Steemit is slowly but firmly losing its human factor, and it is replaced by automatic behavior. Upvote selling, bot activity, commercial delegation.... So, maybe this would be the new parading around here. And maybe it is not all that bad.

Imagine this:

The new user would have to be ready to engage in certain activities that give him tokens he can use to buy or bid for upvotes that only bidbots can give. Or getting SP for a fee. These tokens would be granted by posting content, sharing it, getting views or clicks, bringing new users and commenting, in an automatic way (Not by human upvoting). The only way he can get SBD by upvoting is in the case he upvotes his own comments and content.

The other users can upvote (sort of) of flag your content, but that does not give you or take from you any SBD. It affects your reputation. The bigger your reputation is, the more you can earn for your activities on the site.

The bidbots will be regulated, limited. Maybe they would pay a fee to the site for the right to upvote with monetary value. A place on the trending page would be bought. You pay for exposure, and everybody knows it. No more hidden stuff.

Just some wild toughts. Maybe it is not that bad.