The lack of human interaction I think goes against what Steemit stands for. Helping people get noticed for their contributions to the chain. Bots are preprogrammed, like computers, really can’t do anything unforeseen. Nor can a bot make an assumption about useful content or for that matter the lack there of.

As a programmer myself I see the bot being a front door into the steemit community for the advancement of spam / phishing / unwanted advertising.

Although the blockchain is fairly new in the speak of technology, the concept of digital human interaction has been around for a long time. Even in the early days of widespread internet use with AOL chat rooms. At first it was great no bots, no spam, no adverts. Once programmers began to develop the overlays(API interactions) for the respective platforms, spam and scams were soon to follow.

In my opinion...Steemit accounts should have to be a real human individual. Yes, I do not think my cat Gutterbutt should have an account. Although he’s a great cat, he can’t type well, and I really don’t think he’s qualified to upvote anything but a tuna.

Anyhow Hive account@ronel, great topic!