I hate all bots! I'm really new to steemit, I mean I created an account back in the fall of last year, but then kinda just got bored with it because I felt kind of alienated.. like a bird in a lion cage, of sorts. But then a friend reminded me about the site and I took another try. The bots are pretty easy to spot, like you say. I only upvote genuine comments, or at least I hope I am.

There was a bot going around that commented on one of my posts and I soon noticed that it was showing that I upvoted the comment when really I didn't. I had to actually click to go through the process of really upvoting it before I could then remove the vote. So then I went through the bots comment history and started flagging all their recent posts. But I was worried if I flagged too many that they might retaliate somehow. I don't know how it all works really.

But anyway. I feel your rage and I hope that steemit finds a way to stop these jerks. It really isn't good for the site at all.