RE: Great post my friends, upvoted, resteemed, followed.
i think one interesting long term option would be to have a field on profiles which denotes a profile as bot (or bot enabled) and normal.
the default for a new user would be to enable interaction with all bot profiles. however, as the user becomes more familiar with the community and believes a certain bot or bot enabled profile is not adding value to their blogs they could have either all bot profiles muted or specific profiles.
this type of filter would allow bots to be viable in the community but also allow for users to customize their experience.
in terms of identifying bots profile, i think the best would be for self-disclosure under settings. if a bot profile was not correctly identified other users could flag the profile and once a threshold was reached (minimum flags) the profile would be switched to a bot/bot-enabled profile.
That is an interesting method for the bots. Even a different coloured reputation flag might work. what of the humans that spam?
Edit: Not just spam, spam but spam useless nonsense.
I know there is currently a mute option on profiles. I haven't tried it but curious if that option would prevent the profile from commenting on a post..