Great analysis for the bot activity. It validates my feelings if i look into my posts. Recently it felt i had a whole bot army with always the same annoying, senseless, stereotype comments. Often very short, not content related, sometimes longer to work like a smoke grenade but after several times clear that's a deceptive approach to earn money out of the reward pool. As i wrote in my suggestions in @lukestokes post about long term thinking for Steemit we need something in the code with the HF20 to reduce or minimize these activities because we cannot hope that people stop with that behaviour what is offered by the system.
Thank you for the insights!
yep we need to write something into the code, but we have to get it right...
im rather lucky I do not have a bot army commenting on my posts but I do know some that have