Not sure it is still in experiment mode really came out of an idea a few of us had about addressing the bots that are the most annoying, no vote and leave comments seconds after at the top trying to get up votes with something like "Wow so nice post!".
This will be an ongoing evolving idea, but the idea could help us at least identify people who are abusing the system. This will also tie into our internal reporting system which we are also developing internally. The hope is that IF we can build something even halfway useful others may join in and build on top to expand the idea to really help the community!
Every member of ShadowBot will be able to generate these traps which will hopefully allow us to identify some of the abusers of steemit!
Thanks for the input really hope you stick around, you seem very knowledgeable and we really appreciate all the input!