I don't censor posts. I negate value added to them. So maybe that's still in alignment with how you feel about flagging. I won't say people should be flagged to oblivion, because that would be censorship.
Yeah, I resteem very sparingly. And unfollow excessive resteemers unless they actually are good.
And in the end, I think I knew these things deep down while using the bots. I was greedy (though really as you say it didn't even gain very much)