How will this affect genuine 'bot' followers such as @qurator. Qurator is a valuable service for minnows and plankton, they up vote quality content and police the members of their community. However, they do operate as an automatic up vote at times.
I believe what you are talking about is fantastic, and yes we do need to explore ways of getting rid of useless content on Steemit and the silly bots the follow them. However, I am not sure I want my account used in this experiment as I see it impacting my qurator community which is a valuable and useful community for me.
Please consider an opt out on this or an alternative way.
This feature will be opt-in only, and we will work with all legitimate services to ensure they are uneffected by this! We will NEVER force any new features on users without them opting in. You will have the ability under settings to toggle these traps when we release them to our system.
Also, the lists we will be building are not going to currently be used by anything, they will just be a list of known bots. Good, Abusive but not malicious, and Spam/Scam Blacklisted.
This sounds good. Thank you for clarifying.