Thank you for that. It was eloquently put.
With respect to the code of conduct again I'm going to restate that this is a semantic thing.
Obeying leash codes is complying with the code of conduct, but you can't expect that bot owners are going to know you don't want their bot in there any more than you could expect them to know you don't want them in there.
If you don't have a way of signaling "hey i only want people". Then the bot doesn't have the information to make said decision anymore than a person would.
Furthermore, we may be mixing the idea of bots up by lumping every bot into the same category.
If a whale can sell his single upvote worth $200, or a bot owner can sell 2000 minnow upvotes for $200 the incentive is there for the bot builder to build 2000 minnow upvoting bots. Because that's an easy way to make some cash.
What I'm saying is get rid of the damned upvoting and one liner and meme posting bots, and instead point them towards more useful tasks.
What cheetah does is an excellent example of something that 2000 minnow bots could do 2000 times faster. But you don't want 2000 minnows all flagging the same post.
So you divide and conquer the workload. First bot to find plagiarism wins the right to post and is entitled to any upvote love from the community. You'd never even know a bot was doing it. The activity would look exactly like a concerned member, because it would be a concerned member who turned their computing power over to the purpose of cleaning this place up.
See what I'm saying? Your idea of a bot is this 10 lines of python code that exists for a single purpose. I'm saying let's put the same PEOPLE interested in these activities to work doing something more fun and productive. And believe me there are a lot of fun and productive tasks that could be done here. A lot of problems that could be solved, but a limited view of AI isn't helping people to expand their horizons.
If you want a bot to stay out of your posts, at least the bot registry gives you a way to contact the owner and let them know. Otherwise what you end up with is the situation we have now where no one knows who owns what bots and who to call on when their bot goes berzerk.