Keep the faith that positive for all of us on Steemit will win. I can understand how people have a fake feeling of comfort with these bots around, only the people getting the worst of it end up having reputation scores go down before their voices are even heard. Thank god I always look at new posts and if I see a post hidden because it has a negative number, it makes me that much more curious to see it because of how many other good posts I see hit up by these bots.
It really is odd how accepted they have become over time, but I think I have seen more issues with them the past month so hopefully as least people will see they are doing more harm than good in their current form, but I believe there is a lot of things that could help make them at least usable.
Really glad to see a non-new user who has seen people put off of these bots, it just stinks all one can do is flag the bad posts by them and keep Steeming.