Have you heard of the transparencybot? It is posting on just about everyone that is using a bot service for their posts. It is like a spam post on the blog and does not look good.
I'm not sure if anything can be done about it, but I'm sure many people are not pleased with the added spam to their blog posts.
Us 'minnows' do not have much power to do anything here...
I am with you on this. I am new (been at Steemit for a week) and I already figured out if one doesn't use a bot, its going to take forever to do anything here.