Thank you for your reply. If I could compile my own 'exclusion list' containing bots which I deemed to be the type which upvotes inferior content, that would work (and I think it would be the same for many people out there). Furthermore, good content like yours for instance, is not upvoted multiple times by several of these bots. In my own opinion, any bot which upvotes someone's post without a human intervention, is a bad type of bot, and I would rather eliminate all content providers who use such devices, as a metter of principle. In short, an upvote should reflect the decision of another human being, and not be the action paid for by the person providing the content.
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If more users will be asking for this feature, I may implement it. It could be interesting to see only posts unsupported by bots and vote for them to help. But now I am thinking about text analysis to improve the algorithm of selecting quality posts.
I ndeed, it would be interesting too, to sample content which is unsupported and that which is supported by 'defined blacklisted' bots, to discover if there is significant quality discrepency too. The news about your plans for text analysis, is very exciting. No doubt very difficult to implement too. Thanks for your thoughts and hard work.
I was commenting on a thread link-1, discussion about feature in shadowbot and really considered letting you know about the @shadowbot team work - their interface might do well with a touch of your filter as I mentioned in my comment under that thread.
Then a few hours later, my comment was upvoted by @thing-2 a 'relative' of @gentlebot
Both these bots upvote only comments which have passed some sort of algorithm checking for 'quality' - the process is discussed in summary at link 2. It apppears to be an implementation of a sort of AI - an algorithm like the one you are planning. If there is a chance, perhaps you can look into my two links.