Don't hate the Bots, they are an important part of the Steemit Ecosystem and are growing to be even more important. Below is a list of Bots that currenctly exist in the Steemit ecosystem, as more are produced I will add them to the list. And over the next year or two I plan on starting some form of loosely Organized Steemit Bot Making Society, where everyone just shares ideas and shares their bots for download. And eventually Bots can be a normal part of the Steemit Ecosystem, instead of a new Species that people are worried about.

1.

Everyone knows about the Wang Bot right? The Bot that greets you in the 'introduceyourself' tag. It has made over $1,000,000 estimated value in STEEM Power.

https://steemit.com/@wang/transfers

I assume @wang was created by @ned or @dan or someone at @steemit

2.

This is a bot that newer Steemit users can appreciate. It was created by 1 person who owns 3 Whale accounts:

@steemed

@itsascam

@steemroller 

https://steemit.com/curation/@steemed/im-a-steem-whale-looking-for-writers

One month ago, when there were about 200-400 posts a day, he said he was having trouble keeping up with all the good content, so he had to make a Bot that could do some work for him. There are now nearly 8,000 posts per day, which is 0ver 16x as much content as there was a month ago. This is a bot that is meant to do good.

Here is a blog by @cryptoctopus about the job of a Witness is

https://steemit.com/witness/@cryptoctopus/witnesses-exposed-what-witnesses-has-done-for-us-this-week-first-edition

And here is a blog by @dantheman basically saying that Whales sould vote for anything with any value, not just for the very best content.

https://steemit.com/steem/@dantheman/steem-whales-voting-perspective

3.

This is a Curation Bot, called @Curator

https://steemit.com/steem/@curator/i-made-a-curation-bot-for-steem

This bot takes as much information as possible, without actually reading your content (since it's a robot), then makes a vote determined on the information gathered. Bots like this could be used by the casual Steemit user who doesn't have more than a few hours a week to dedicate to Steemit, but wants to remain active. Or a Whale who wants their vote attached to as many good blogs as possible, without just following specific blogs that they have already heard of. Eventually Bots like @Curator will also be used like Search Engine Web Crawlers to produce data for Websites based around Steemit.

4.

There is also an Anti-Plagiarism bot called @Cheetah

https://steemit.com/steemit/@anyx/cheetah-bot-the-fight-against-spam-and-plagiarism-continues

It flags Plagiarized content. It was created by @anyx and he also gives credit to

 @xeroc

@pharesim 

@pfunk 

@cryptoctopus 

@ash 

@tuck-fheman 

@neoxian 

@positive 

5.

This is a bot that helps a Witness keep everything moving by alerting them of different things and giving them analytics. 

https://steemit.com/witness-category/@bitcube/get-alerted-when-your-witness-node-is-down-telegram-bot

Created by @bitcube

6.

This Bot posts to Twitter

https://steemit.com/steemit/@derekareith/steemit-posts-on-twitter-a-new-twitter-bot-i-created-to-push-steemit-content-to-the-twitter-masses

Created by @derekareith credit also given to @xeroc

7.

Upvote Bot that anyone can use

https://steemit.com/steem/@complexring/steem-autovote-bot

Created by @complexring

Conclusion

Think of Bots as the kind of animal in the ecosystem that cleans the algea away, or creates compost, etc. They can help make the Steemit Ecosystem both better in content and better in wealth distribution.

Here is an Archive of Cryptocurrency App building Code on Github for anyone creating a Steemit app, it could also be useful in the creation of Bots

https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/github-cryptocurrency-app-creation-archive

Python Library

https://steemit.com/steem/@xeroc/python-steem-v0-1-1

Java Script Library

https://steemit.com/steem/@svk/ann-steemjs-steemjs-lib