I'm not sure if controlled or banned are the desired outcomes for bots?

They appear to be very widely used - in ways that are obvious to the passing eye, and probably more worrying, ways that are not obvious.

As well as automated bots, there is clearly widespread use of 'human bots'. There seems to be a plague of repeated one line comments on many post - great post, nice photo, good story etc etc. Are these bots - who knows?

I am still too noob to understand all the workings of steemit but I do fear it may be consumed by bots if there is not some control of them soon.