Excellent post Alex, great project too. It seems as though bots are here to stay. Many bots are used to upvote low value posts - that cant be changed, but if there are enough whitelist bots, like ecotrain, upvoting and supporting quality posts, then they could help over shadow the low value bot upvoted posts. With all the quality original content posts upvoted by ecotrain, it is a tag and bot that I am proud to use. The 11% ROI makes it a win win. Many thanks to @eco-alex, the ecotrain delegators, and everyone on steemit supporting quality content.