Hey @davemccoy, totally agree with you on this! I myself didn't use many bots to upvote post. I use one to try it out and experience it. I can totally feel the pain of having a good content and didn't get much attention from the community and earning very less unless you have a local community to support each other.
Some upvote bots use the fund for fun projects which is good I think. Some just purely earn money from authors. I personally think renting SP to manual curator is a good idea to them to support top quality authors and reward them.
Hey @williamsyee! Always good to see you :) ... and my point is that they will get what they incentivize and encourage with the rules. There are many great ways to use this system, and your way is perfect... I'm trying to get them to think about sponsoring someone like you that is focused on "building quality or quantity" and seeing if they can get a few little centers of support set up to organically support people.