Do not despair!
I'm working on a post concerning the identification of abusive bots.
Hopefully this will provide some ingenious person a way to identify and flag bots.
While not a perfect solution, it may help to reduce the profotability of automatic bots.
here's the post!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@torquewrench1969/tips-i-use-to-identify-bot-accounts