There is already enough attention given in the form of flagging and banlists for use of bots, the real question we need to ask ourselves is who these people are and what are their financial and educational situations and why that plays into their behavior on the blockchain. Because if you really think about it it is mostly because money is hard to come by in many places and educational systems aren't strong in many countries, and they are wasting their time posting, our time is wasted having to determine if it's spam or not, and the network's bandwidth and storage space is wasted transmitting and storing all of the garbage.

If we flag every last spam post and beggar for eternity then guess what, there will still be poor people on this earth. It is only a part of the solution. Flagging is essentially a big stick that you're running around hitting people over the head with repeatedly and it doesn't change the nature of their own human needs if they have or know no other ways to earn money. This is part of the reason why I am proposing some initiatives of my own, I have posted some very rough details but I believe that if I get this right then we can take a step in the right direction in offering positive incentives to people to not spam endlessly in the hopes of getting a few cents. You need positive reinforcement for good behavior and personal restraint from posting worthless posts in addition to the negative stick of the flaghammer.

I believe that a UBI can work in conjunction with directed charitable activities on the steem platform in order to help alleviate poverty and provide opportunities that would not otherwise be afforded some of these groups in a multi-directional attack on the core issues that these people are facing.