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RE: Steemit and the bots.....there is so much more to learn!
In my opinion, an upvote should mean that a person read your content and found it worthy of an upvote. It is my view that buying a like is no better than lying. The people who do this are trying to succeed by manipulating the system instead of making quality content and engaging the community. They should be ashamed.
I do understand what you are saying, and as you can see from one of my first blog posts, I did not like the self vote option at all. Here is why I came around, 1. Steemit.com says that other than posting illegal stuff, there are no rules, and 2. this is an opensource, decentralized experiment that is not going to be perfect($SBD pegged to $1 USD for example), and not only will the system balance itself out(even if that just means everyone does it) or, and I think even more likely, it will create further opportunities for innovation.
Of course, if people are not actually creating quality content and not adding value to the blockchain, that is different, and some bots will even ban users for this reason.
The guy I mention in the article is one of only 21 Steem witnesses for the network, he is whom I learned everything from and validates it is all above board.
Of course the site needs to continually make improvements, but those take forks, so until then, this also will help showcase what will happen if things stay the same or make obvious what needs to be improved.