Totally agree on the spamminess of those bots! Which is why I very soon converted from the bots posting a comment on each call, to posting a daily summary, waaaaay less clutter like this.=
Also agree on the comments with nothing but botcalls. I have some followers that do that on each post, and I reply to them in the same manner, but there is very little “social” about that of course :-D
The idea behind the bots is to be able to use them for specific uses, for instance @thestrider is intended to reward physical activity, mostly running/walking.
The !HOPE bot is meant in a similar way as the HUG and LUV bots, to give a sign of hope, or reward signs of hope.
But the master of all puppets/bots, is the mmbbot !MMB which is not yet finished though. The idea is Maximum Mutual Benefit, and make the token behind it an income token, so hopefully with a lot of value to its holders, and this in many ways: holding the tokens will earn you upvotes, delegation rewards, staking rewards, …
And all the others would sit under the MMB umbrella, and they would complement the earning potential of the MMB token (and have their own earnings as well).