Hi, thx for the suggestions!

• we are taking into account the following and voting behavior of bots already. Also (since we're only "live" for 7 days now) are still "tweaking the knobs" for optimal settings: WiP!
• no worries if you get followed by bots / people you don't know of: doesn't hurt your UA rankings in case you "act like a human being" over time;
• the "whales" (in terms of SP) do naturally get followers, even for doing nothing but owning the steem / sp & sbd: because "people follow the money". We initiate the UA algo with a sub-algo called "WitnessRank", but those need to be "active" and "up-to-date". We're also testing out an improved & dynamical "dampening factor" d which decreases the "UA Trust" of witnesses as they are "inactive" over time (where "inactive" is defined by a number of metrics, which we are evaluating weights to for optimization).

Steem on!