It will ruffle some feathers, sure... but mostly the ones who see Steemit as an opportunity to get "money for nothing." And I'm only talking about the "paid upvote" bots here... not individual people's curation bots.

And yes, there would need to be some kind of "upvote service registry" which could be a "community watch" effort... there are enough content creators here who sick and tired of this stuff.