Yay, the advent of the new ethical bots have arrived.

I fully support what you are doing @eco-alex and being able to help and encourage minnows to stay the course, especially as the ones you pick have value to share and deserve to be seen by more people.

I think the whitelisting idea is awesome and solves a whole host of bot problems.

And I am careful not to upvote the few competition entries or low content posts I do, only the good stuff, so a little self-regulating still required.