@chronocrypto

1. I agree with your point, unfortunately.
2. Please share the credits for the pics, I want to go watch that anime now! :)
3. Unfortunately, although bots might be a problem we won't be seeing them going away (ever)
   1. Since normally using social media wouldn't equate to any form of financial reward on centralized platforms bots are very rare. But this isn't surprising, I'm sure it isn't the first time money's complicated something simple.
   2. Bots, as I see them, is one of the ways for users to maintain their freedom and influence. You can look at some of the ways this is already playing out at the moment, many bots and semi-bots have been created for the sole purpose of "improving" steem; or whatever that might mean to the individuals behind the bots.
4. For the problem with bots, I can only say that the solution would be either more bots or some sort of artificial intelligence (Simple machine learning or something).
5. I think the problem isn't with the bots that are clearly acting as bots but rather those acting as if they are human, and are trying to perform some sophisticated social engineering.
6. Although bots might be the surface problem they aren't the actual cause. Scams, physhing, impersonation, cyber-bullying, briberry and cheating and scamming... These are actually the underlying issues. Most of them won't ever be solved through steem, but at least we can have some standardised way of handeling them. (I don't see any "report illegal activity" button, do you?)
7. Most of the problems on steem I've seen could easily turn for the worst. I hope that the global "reputation" score of steem won't be influenced by this unfortunate affliction

(I was mostly going through bot related trauma when I wrote this) -__- (Sorry if you were actually not being serious and I drove things off point)