When I was a more naive Steemian, I was concerned both auto-voters and voting bots were going to take over / ruin Steem. However, I was forced into using both of them to succeed here.
It doesn't even matter, because you can't stop bots without centralization.
I don't know what we're supposed to be doing on this platform anymore. Is this all just a proof of concept for Smart Media Tokens?
RE: Why Do We Bother To Create Content At All? Better To Abuse.