No - it feels a bit "spammy" and perhaps overkill.

Exactly what I was thinking (though at current limits it would buy me 30 or 35 more slots for delegator beneficiaries 😉).

I think that once you get the algorithm right, then it probably wouldn't be necessary anyway.

That's what I'm hoping too.

I can feel the potential with this project. Whilst I think that greed with the existing generation of voting bots will continue, this feels like a viable alternative that should benefit the "real Steemit community longer term.

That's how I feel, too. It's obviously not a panacea, but there's a huge amount of buried value out there that can strengthen the ecosystem if we figure out good ways to "mine" it.