I know how you feel about the bots. I had another account and when i was starting off used to run contests that distributed all the sbd earned between some of the contestants.

The posts were very similar as it was a daily contest and the main text was a copy and paste. Unfortunatly after a while this flagged as spam for similar content and started getting downvotes.

The contest weren't big as i was a minnow and all the people were minnows but every day three people got a nice little transfer of sbd when they were only earning a couple of cents per post. There were about 5 more users on my level running similar contests and they all started getting downvoted at the same time.

It was so frustrating when we were all running a service that wasnt hurting anybody and people were getting paid out that some decided that it wasnt ggod for steemit and set bots against them.

What you do is great for steemit and adds to the site so i hope that this doesnt stop you from continuing to help people and run your contests.