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I don't mind the kinds of bots like twitterbot and cheetah that serve informational purposes.
I don't mind the bots some use to gather lists of posts from users they like for later manual curation.
All the other bots? Nope. Those bots don't know the difference between actual content and a mule's rear end.

that's what I said...vote harvesters
backed up by the clout (flag) of their owners..
the whales.