This was discussed quite some time ago. See this and this.
At the time, there was a very high volume of one-percent voters who were voting on nearly every post, and I believe that the program driving those voters was configured to ignore posts marked by the blacklist accounts (as well as cheetah, steemcleaners and perhaps a couple others).
I doubt if the blacklist accounts are having much of an impact these days, if they ever did.
Thanks for the links!
It seems the answers are held within, and it does not look like a Steemit account.
I think this is one of those subject that will continue to go around as long as they are there and there can be concern for misuse. There are so many that set out to make money at any cost, it doesn't phase them. Like one of @themarkymark posts where he uncovered 50 bogus accounts tied to 1 or 2 genuine accounts. I don't know if there is an answer. I agree that there are good and bad bots. It ultimately means that we ourselves have to make sure we don't encourage or patronize others that we know for certain are posting garbage or abusing bots mainly to maintain the integrity of the platform. That is ultimately what I get from posting such as this one.
Along with what you're saying that very well could be. I really think the major reason for making all of this an open topic that everyone is aware of, is because it affects the main pool and it trickles down someone like me, meaning I either get missed, or pennies for what could be a very good post. Where as someone of your ranking I would hope you're making a larger portion of the pool than I am.
I like how this was approached. For @abh12345 to do something pretty comprehensive and breakdown when it is good to use a bot and when it's not with the suggestions of which ones are good.