Hive account@pc101 Upvoted and totally agree. Bots serve a purpose and rules right now favor bots over humans. More importantly the changes in rule #176 which limited posting to 4x a day actually created a much better environment for bots since they moved the incentives away for humans to post.

Hive account@dev00100000 Want less bots and a more social, social media platform. Drop rules that limit the number of posts you can make in a day and instead charge a fee to post. A penny per thought, and then you make it back if people upvote you.

Since that is clearly not ever going to happen, you will need to deal with bots and honestly the solution looks a whole lot more like this...
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@williambanks/announce-steembots-com-your-source-for-everything-bot-related-now-hiring

Notice what I did with calva in there? Just add #STEEMBOTSTAY to your posting and any bot on our code of conduct will stay out.
Anyways read what I wrote and put some comments and feedback in there, whether you love bots or hate bots, STEEMBOTS is trying to make steem a better place