Also accurate, and the first step to understanding this chain, is decoupling stinc's reference prototype, now on its last legs from the amazing things going on all over it elsewhere, built by witnesses and users like Dragos and myself here and many many others. 

We're some of the ones losing sleep and skipping meals for days on end in attempts to save this place before it's too late, over on github lobbying for chain and condenser code changes to benefit users, building tools and new dapps, building huge communities of users and teaching them how to operate in this environment, aiding in encouraging young users to mitigate our dismal retention caused predominantly by issues only possible on this ONE interface, and hosting and speaking at conferences and attending meetups to educate on the street and everything we can more or less, and far less prevalent on any of the other dozens of ways to use it. 

I'm pretty assured that Dragos didn't do this experiment for *himself*, he already knew the situation and understood the bots. He did it to document it for newcomers and to prove some points, which are in turn being discussed and elaborated on here. I know this, because he and I have been here a long long time now and discussed much of this before. We spend time in the witness channels, we know the bot owners and their funding whales. We speak to them. We know why they do what the do, and what the math is.

The main problem is we have people coming here who DO not do this homework and it will never make sense to them. They are the ones leaving then to give a bad rep to the whole place. When if only they had never seen stincs crappy site, they would have never heard of bots or rep over on dsound or zappl or whathave you.

This is evidenced by the 10000 times a day I have to teach "steemit is not steem" to people like the gentleman on this very page who asked "*so this is ok with the makers of steemit? and is guaranteed ?*" 

WE (including that misguided inquirer) are the makers of this chain. Steemit inc needs to go shut down and leave us alone to do the work.