Agreed in part. Redditors would be less offended if they found out virally, or stumbled across a site that displayed the possible value of their posts based on some modelling analysis. The bot would offend, even if it was allowed.
Maybe this is where this adoption initiative could head - sponsor a scientific analysis of the possible monetory value of social content, using reddit data and steemit's payout mechanism. All 1.7B reddit public comments are available for download reddit archive torrent for this type of data analysis.
"A scientific research/analysis of possible ways to rewards monetarily to reddit content contributors." sounds good. I think this could be a good attempt for Steem. I would like to be part of this effort.