I agree with you. Except for certain reward pool abuses, not giving visibility to bad quality content is probably sufficient to make the poster/bot stop. I'm sure that some of the status-report type bot posts are very interesting to the bot owners, so meh, let that stay as long as it is out of sight, out of mind.

Thanks for the link: I like your post. You are correct that we already have sufficient information on the blockchain to build a personalisation AI to filter content. Steem, very luckily, is also extensible enough so that we could make a richer set of user feedback tools if we found that useful. It would take building a new UI to make this happen though. A smaller first goal might be to build tools to help curators.

(Mention: @personz you might be interested in this thread)