Is it ironic that the spammy steemitboard bot is the first reply? An unchecked rogue robot, ruining a decent platform. You have opt out? Opt out of spam on a post about a bot that downvotes incorrectly flagged spam.

People had to opt in to read my blog and make their own judgement.

Other than earnings, where is the social value in these automated mechanisms?

Last I checked, people still had brains and could think for themselves.