I came here from the original article. It is good to have a contrarian voice here. The bot question is one that must be solved. The non-contributing leeches (bots?) should be shunned. I think this platform has a lot of promise. The financial aspect will get people to leave traditional social media platforms and come here and in the long run get more people into cryptocurrency and of course Bitcoin since it is the main crypto. My latest post can be found here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@bitcoinmeister/video-from-january-where-i-recommend-that-twitter-incorporate-a-cryptocurrency-system-into-their-platform-and-where-i-describe