Very true, I just worry that it will render the #hot tag essentially useless and possibly trick users into thinking something has a lot of attention when it may just be one person with an army of bots who like a post (or mis-upvoted a post).
EDIT: I know bots will be a healthy population of Steemit in the future. But posts like this one are meant to motivate bot-makers to be careful with how they make them.