But profiteering, generally using bots as a vector, has increasingly transformed it from having world changing potential into a cryptocurrency mining mechanism.

Yeah, it's sad... maybe I should have not powered up and sold the rest of my stem when it was at the top... :/ The long term future doesn't seem prosperous at this point... Not a platform for real change for whats better first, but about making money first with real change second hand...

I am pretty sure that if I win on this issue, and bots are evicted from voting on Steemit, Steemit will win, and society as a whole, as well as investors, whose Steem will be quickly worth a great deal more than it is now.

I hope that it works out that way. :)