Thanks for your thoughts :) Some are part of collectivites that seem to just vote for their own without bothering to read the articles.

Limiting the use of bots might help but I wonder if the majority of curators who collect various posts use bots to collect information about prospective users to create their articles - those articles do help new users achieve exposure so maybe bots should only be used under certain circumstances and not entirely for personal gain. Go figure that this post gave me more attention than my other post about photography haha :)