For manual curation, it might be helpful to have a different kind of bot: not a "whale bot" as described recently by @dantheman but rather a bot that prefilters content for your manual attention.
As it stands, the signal-to-noise ratio and the volume of the raw feed of new content is such that manual handling is getting tricky unless one can devote oneself to it almost full-time. It could be useful for a "bot" to filter out e.g. simple reposts (without editorial additions) of content from elsewhere on the net, carelessly written filler pieces that just randomly scratch the surface of some well-known issue, thinly-veiled advertising etc.
Interesting question to what extent such pre-filtering could be automated.