Yeah, well it takes longer than an hour to read 30 posts. Particularly if you're commenting substantively. So, that's silly. Fact is that folks that are interacting socially on Steem tend not to be folks with day jobs, like me. Now, there are a lot more people that have the time to read and post on Steem than there are people with large stakes, and people with large stakes tend to have tight schedules that come with maintaining those stakes. The twain scarcely intersect.

Basically botting is the only real way to control voting of substantial stake for ROI. The ninjaminers' dream of moon is broken by their rapine, so they're trying to come up with easy fixes that will get people to buy their stake. However, people are drawn to social media for reasons other than financial, and this does not mesh with the lusts of ninjaminers, leaving us with this bizarrely broken system.

The funny thing is that if the ninjaminers were able to forego their pecuniary obsession and implement the social media mechanism they baited us with, the moon would eventuate despite the extremely objectionable ninjamine, because people focused on social interaction would create a large market for Steem. It's exactly the focus on financial manipulation of rewards that discourages the growth of the social media mechanism that is the sole potential means of imbuing Steem with value, and the incessant extraction of rewards that should be encouraging authors to come and grow the market directly drives the abysmal retention rate that keeps Steem price nothing more than a dim reflection of BTC.

Reverse the rate at which rewards flow to authors/substantial stakeholders, and the substantial stakeholders' stakes will become far more valuable because far more people will want to buy it. Instead of 90% of rewards being manipulated out of the rewards pool by whales, let 90% of rewards flow to content creators. Simple, effective way to grow a market. Capital gains is the primary mechanism that has encouraged investment since time immemorial, yet the greedy bastard ninjaminers can't bear to see tokens flowing into the wallets of creators and not flowing into their wallets, so they suck them all into their wallets and in so doing keep the price from rising by keeping the market from growing.

It's retarded.