Excellent post. I've been having very similar conversations over the last couple of days. I spend ages trawling through all the 'crap' you mentioned, trying to find something decent to curate on. It's like the system is getting clogged with junk . I put a lot of effort into my blog, but pretty much avoid these bots, as I don't know what's acceptable or worth while. Good content is getting lost amidst all this 'noise' and lazy, shoddy posts are reaping the rewards, whilst creative articles, where a great deal of effort has gone in, are not even getting seen as they're being pushed out. I can only see this problem getting worse, if it's not addressed.

It's the same in curation, I don't know about you, but as a new Steemian, even I'm getting tired of "I upvoted you, you up vote me?" comments on my posts. Another form of spamming. Much more and I'll start flagging them. I also encountered the Facebook, thinking it would be a discussion group, but no, I suddenly got inundated with upvote requests and links.