You are communicating with someone else. Here are some things to keep in mind:
Trying to humiliate or criticize someone is likely to provoke a negative response.
Always, always, always stay "classy" in your communications with this person. Be positive, stay positive, speak in a positive way.
Don't invest money, power-up, and get into a down-voting battle unless you have a ton of money that you are able to use for that purpose. This is the last resort: economic violence. All it does is cost everyone money that could be better used for upvotes, instead of downvotes. And, it produces bad feelings all around.
You can only control your own behavior. You can not control anyone else's behavior. If you behave in a way that is good and positive, at least you will feel good about yourself while looking in the mirror tomorrow morning. It isn't "rocket science" to know that "Good Behavior Produces Good Feelings." Sometimes, it rains on everyone - and we have no control over any of it. The only thing you can really control is your own response to whatever events come your way.
"Bullet-proof" your @resteembot account by leaving more of the payments in that account. The more steem power which resides in that account, they more it will take for any detractors to damage its' reputation by downvoting it. Don't take profits from it for a while and let it build itself up into a much stronger position. Money talks.
That being said, I have been regularly using your, @resteembot , and I appreciate the low-cost of the service you provide. I don't mind that it posts an little advertisement comment in my comments section. Some people could call that "spam," but I see it simply as a way to confirm that my post has, indeed, been resteemed. If people don't like it, or they call it "spam," then they should not pay for the service.
Personally, I would just ignore the situation and leave it alone - maybe respond to the other persons' comments, on your posts or comments like this:
"Thank You. I'm sorry that you feel that way. I always try to be positive on SteemIt. We seem to have a disagreement about what you consider to be "spam." Anyone who does not like my comments is completely free to stop paying me for my services. Since I have been paid for a service, and provided that service, I can only assume that the original poster was happy with the service they received. Since people are still paying me for my services, I will continue to Steem On! I would also encourage you to Steem On!"
I believe this response places the ball in the other persons' court, reminds them that your comments are in response to being paid for a service which you have provided, and places responsibility exactly where it rests: with the actions of other people. You take no action, make no comment, unless it is in return for someone else who first solicited your services. Take what steps you can to diffuse the situation, without offering offense to anyone who complains. We are all human - maybe they are just having a bad week? There are truly some types of people who are "toxic," but I find them to be a rare breed. These types of people are best to avoid and ignore. Most people who at first appear to be "toxic" are just responding to their own inability to cope with life in a negative way - then they regain their composure. Don't be the one who "loses their cool." Be the cool person.
This comment is great!! it deserves my upvote (even though my upvote is a little, haha)... I couldn't give a better advice than that... especially the part put in quote mark.
It's always nice, to be nice.
You misunderstand what I mean by advertisment campaign.
There are 4 accounts - @investigation, @motomania, @counterweight, @extras who actively look for new posts, upvote them and write a long comment like "I upvoted you. Check out @resteembot".
The people are usually thankful for that, but it is still not clear if it is spam or not.
It is a bit of a gray area...
Otherwise - thank you for your great answer.
Ok. In that case - yeah, people can be justified in calling what you are doing, "spam," because it is unsolicited bot activity. This can be very annoying - especially if the bots' upvote is basically worthless (less than 2 or 3 cents).
People are coming here who crave real human interaction, which steemit is good at providing. Coming back to your post after a while & seeing it covered in comments by bots is disheartening. I have experienced this same thing, recently, and it's not what I want to see steemit become. I would keep on doing your resteembot - but don't use bots to advertise. Only do an "advertisement" for your own resteem service if you are manually curating, upvoting and commenting on posts - that way it is coming from a real, actual person. "Advertising" is generally annoying to most people - but it is sometimes less annoying if it's at least coming from a real person.
You would do just as well to make a post every-other-day with your @resteembot account which explains how to use your service. It will attract interested people. People who are not interested won't click on it - and they won't be bothered.
So, seriously - knock off the spam-bots, in my opinion. They have a tendency to provoke a very negative response from some people. I blew one of them up about 5 or 6 weeks ago, because it was annoying the hell out of me. The guy did change his tactics, I believe. He wasn't a bad sort - but most Steemians like the fact that we don't get spammed to death on SteemIt like you do on every other social media site in existence. At the very least, keep your own "advertisements" at the bottom of your own posts. Rarely would I insert it on somebody else's posts. Maybe one time, to somebody who introduces' themselves to steemit - but no more than that.
I understand your point, but at the same time I can't fully agree. The bots are part of SteemIt and that was intended by design. That is why we have been provided the tools to easily make bots.
Even some 'spamming' bots are nice. Especially the ones that give useful information on wellcome posts.
I have seen many great posts with my advertisment on them only. I read them because I saw them through the advertisements.
If I didn't, nobody would have read them at all.
It is not a normal type of attention, yes, but how is that worse than having 0 views?