It's great to see an intelligent counterargument from a voting bot provider as typically they are silent on this issue, and vastly outnumbered by the amount of people crying out to ban voting bots.

This is a multi-variable discussion but typically I see most people latching onto one piece of the argument and then completely ignoring all other aspects along with their potential benefits.

Like you say the issue is around inequality of reward distribution on Steemit, which is definitely broken. I was very turned off at first when joining the platform (before investing $1k of my own money) because you start with 15SP, which isn't even enough to earn curation rewards. Then as you earn SP, the delegated amount drops away.

So you spend a lot of time literally earning nothing in terms of net SP, and the rate at which you earn SP at first is incredibly slow which is very demotivating. I think more needs to be done to help people get off the ground when they join Steemit and this should be accomodated with increased controls to prevent people having multiple accounts.

If you get an intelligent and balanced critique of this post from someone, will you share it to continue the discussion? It would be great to get some feedback from the devs on this but I haven't seen anything to date.