SteemData is about 24 hours behind right now so pulling data to find spammers is on hold. Several have been manually found by the community but they are not large scale spammers.
We do have some problems with potential flag attacks from an account I recently identified. It seems that since their comments were flagged to remove payout they have switched to an extortion demand targeting 
Of course the flags couldn't have anything to do with his history with the community and this admission.
So far the threats have been empty as you can tell by recent events. It is an annoyance and a spam issue.
Since SteemData is lagging I'm going to spend the day doing some PC maintenance and role switching. Then I'll see if I have the spare hardware capable of running Piston and possibly a local blockchain node.
Where am I going with this? Well it depends. I'm not someone who writes programs or scripts. I'm a hack at best. Although in 4 days without knowing anything about MongoDB I was able to hack together some useful scripts using examples and Google. Which wasn't easy and just highlighted the fact that I'm getting older and my memory isn't what it used to be!
What I do will depend on time, money, and my ability to learn. Like I said. I'm a hack.
What I would like to accomplish is a few things. One is to run a reliable linux box that will once again host a voting bot for myself, piston, and a steemit blockchain node. After that I'd like to figure out how to use piston to pull data I was previously pulling from SteemData to help in the identifying of accounts used to spam and commit other abuse.
The after I have the data I'd like to build a few bots for commenting and up-voting. The comment bot(s) would ideally be setup to reply to up to 3 comments made by individuals from a list I feed it daily from the data I pull. These would be those using bots or bot trails. The average copy/paste and generic commenters should be handled by the community. The comments would be asking the users to stop spamming the block chain. If a user doesn't stop after being commented on twice they probably won't stop and action may need to be taken by the community.
The second bot will be an up-vote bot that can be called upon by users only if their posts contain a flag from a list of users I add to the bot committing flag abuse. I would probably use 
I have a few more half formed ideas but as you can tell while I like using bots I prefer not to have a fully automated solution to any problem but I am also a fan of the idiom "Work smarter not harder."
