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Voting should take place inside the post, at the bottom of the article. Bots can't clink links, can they?

Would encourage engagement as well!

Good idea, though I think you can program a bot to just about anything. There is at least one bot programmed to write comments.

They don't need. Steemit works over a blockchain. Upvoting is one of the transactions someone can do to a post. No need to read it.