In the end botting is not preventable, so instead I am trying to establish a well-meaning bot. should steem change in a way that makes voting bots stop working then I will be glad. Until then I hope minnowbooster is the better alternative.

This is a very nice piece. It kind of entails the "If you can't beat them, join them" mentality, but also tries to improve the way things are done so that everyone gets better. It's kind of like the Google Fiber of Steem. We don't want to put our service everywhere, we just want to scare the cable companies into being more fair with their pricing. haha

Anyone who goes to Steemcleaner's Discord will see Reggae and other members of the Minnowbooster team there working with Patrice on a daily basis. I think they really mean it when they say they want to curtail abuse of their system.

Awesome post! Thanks for sharing!!