So, Im terribly new here but I can see that there is a big problem in steemit with the sold votes and the upvoting bots, I had this idea from reading "The heck is going on with steem" and now that I red "voting issues in the community" Im convinced that there is people thinking about this issue.
Here is the Idea summarized
It is possible to develop a software solution to promote the ethical behaviour of the steemit community through the human interaction with the steemit content.
As @guyfawkes4-20 points out, the problem with the voting behavior comes from the social aspect of the community but since at he moment the content that is promoted and featured by the algorithm is completely controlled by the bots and the bought promotions it is necessary to generate some kind of change so that proper behavior can become the new standard.
From the whale voting experiment and the experiences with @grumpycat we learn that the ethical standards of the community are diverse and decentralized so we need a flexible solution that allows the preferences to be set by the users.
As long as the human interaction with the content is valuable for the system we can develop a filter for the steemit content that identifies the ledger transactions behind the post and can react accordingly for example, if certain customizable criteria are met we could be "protected" from the content 
This could be triggered by multiple variables.
*like lists of actors e.g. if the post has recorded transactions with accounts in grumpycat's blacklist, I dont want to see it
*[we should also have whitelists of system bots and stuff like that]
*ratios
*If the artificial promotion of the vote is more than the community support, block it
*If the whale support for the article is higher than twice the minnow-whale rate in the network demographic, keep it away
*we could even have some very very strict rules like
*if it got artificial promotion, filter it
Still, this is only useful as long as the value of the network depends on how many hoomans are seeing the shitposts because this is a solution for the human interaction in the network not for the financial problem since the bots could be directed towards eachother generating inflation loops that would attract most of the tokens unseen by the people.
Conclusion
From the community aspect, it is possible to develop tools for the steemit users to help us enforce our ethical principles
Thanks for the post @miquih2o. I quite like your ideas as a potential fix for the issues. However I would like to see proper regulation and reliable resources for information on bots.
I'm still very new to Steemit and have been observing what I can about the voting system and the massive amount of bots; and I'm just really confused.
It feels like there is a lot of research to do in understand the role that bid bots play in Steemit!
Good post, great thoughts @miquih20! Thanks for joining the @greetersguild contest also by the way. I see your point, and yes that is something that will in time resolve itself. What we as small fish here need to realize is that low steem prices are a huge benefit in swinging the scales of power on here from the few to the many. If we can wrap ourselves in finding ways to grow, obviously without sabotaging others and being jerks it will be very fruitful for all in the end. You seem to be a very solid person, one that the platform greatly benefits from having around, so I personally would like to see you monetize your account as much as possible right now. Great post, I got a minnowbooster upvote due to the great content and entering the contest!
I am @ayoplenty, nice writeup. why dont you join this contest going on @greetersguild to make people in the comminity see your post and mention my name as your referal. Looking forward to that.
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