All I can say is

Ahahahahahahahhahaa yeah, I know, I've seen this multiple times before. PeopleString did the exact same thing and then network marketers came in trying to promote various affiliate programs and clogged the system with spam and made the system garbage and it just went poof.

The same thing I've seen in the past with other companies is happening to Steemit. There is a way to fix it though, and that's basically to require "Proof of Brain" in the strictest sense possible. Owner of a bot? Lost all your SBD and your accounts. You have to make it so it's a fear to use a bot at all.

I'll admit I looked into the bots, decided not to use them. They're not mathematically feasible, unless, of course, you actually own said bot in question, in which case you have every incentive to use it because people are quite stupid.