Thanks a lot !
It's clear that bots are not ideal, I personally am a fan of your direct engagement approach (and Asher's way too), but for spreading the word about witnesses, it's hard to put in place (or at least I couldn't find a way to apply it to our subject, for now).

Let's say the bot (I must insist on the fact that to subscribe you will have to engage by posting about your choices, that's the compromise between automation and interaction we chose) is just here for the first phase :

• Shedding some light on the witnesses,
• Educating people about the possibility of voting to support someone who shares the same vision of Steem as they do,
• Making contact with witnesses, with people concerned about the future of Steem, and try to synthesize all different points of view to be creators of new ideas to better Steem.

But first and foremost, we would like this to be the trigger and the fuel for other initiatives that we are already working on.