Sort:  

i figured as much, but how are you counting a reply/comment?
I would use a filter just based on length to get rid of most of the bot spam. counting all of them will contaminate the data and skew results. with the bot voting being neutered, we can see a big drop in bot spam, which would appear as much less comments unless you filter out the likely bot comments

Think you've got it there. My numbers are gross numbers off steemle.com

I have noticed a big fall in spam bots. I will add an EDIT in...