I'm new to the whole business of how steemit works. Seems simple enough. I see something I like, I upvote. Still working up to it to put some decent content up myself. But to your topic seems to make sense that bots and self voting should not even be allowed. I am just guessing that taking away that would shock the community and ability to pump up earnings.
Hi @potplucker,
Yes, it seems to me that the shift into removing upvoting the self and using bots is not possible, due to the amount of selfish, greedy and impetuous folk who would protest, but they would be protesting against a move towards a much healthier commnity of creative and appreciative people and credit would be given more to those that create quality posts and not so much to the plagiarists, thieves and the copy and pasters.
I really don't understand how upvoting can be seen as something conducive to a better community, but then there's a lot of things in the word that I don't understand, based upon the behaviour/s of people.