And I expect they will get sneakier and smarter as more and more of the initiatives to squash them develop longer and longer "blacklists."
The whole "Please Sir, master I overwhelm the Intelligence by wisdom your post Iearn to following forever please vote me, I need money" thing is probably a secret virus that eats brain cells...
No...the braincell destroyer is Television.
Lately bots have been reposting the top comment . I've also noticed them quoting from the post...
Ah yes, those.
Sometimes they even lift snippets of text out of posts with the same primary tag and turn them into comments... with a "great post" on the front end and a "thanks for sharing" on the end.