@jennamarbles If you don't mind, would you check my blog to get the other side of this debate? It boils down to these solutions to control bots don't work. Upvote bots are voting because they follow a tutorial and most of them make nothing, because they vote immediately instead of waiting 30 minutes for the cool down timer to finish.

This means someone is trying to learn to program and doesn't care about the monetary rewards. Give them something more lucrative to do that is bot appropriate such as detecting plagarism, identity theft and sock puppets would be a far better option.
Anyways click my name, check my last few blogs out, get both sides of the story and let me know what you think.
Thanks..

p.s. You linked Dan's response to me villifying bots, but didn't link my post that triggered it, if you would be so kind as to add the initial post from me, I would be appreciative. This way I don't have to chase down and explain myself over and over again because Dan misunderstood some things I said and I didn't catch his response until it was almost too late. So my final rebuttal is way the heck down at the bottom and buried by like 1000 other responses.