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Would an asterisk next to their score/name be consider too harsh? With how few comments many of these people are making per week you almost think they were not using steemit at all compared to some of the others. Where in reality that might not be the case. Otherwise is the automation easy enough for you to catch most of it and remove it from their scores?

With that said should human engagement vs bot engagement matter? Some of these witness are using automation to warn users of a phishing attempt, or achievement, or other stuff as well. I guess this would be further how do you wish to define “witness engagement.” Is it just enough that they are attempting to do something overall for the platform or does it need a more human element to it?

Indeed :)

This is why i don't wish to remove/amend/asterisk anything if I can help it. I would rather have notes accompanying the list stating that this is what these accounts do - bot/spamfighter/awardgiver etc.

Is it just enough that they are attempting to do something overall for the platform or does it need a more human element to it?

A question for each individual visiting the numbers I think :)

Or you know have a much better way of going about it then I was thinking :)

That seems like a fair way to go about it.