I consider the pollution of what I regard as MY FEED with all the $bot upvoted stuff much like being forced to read ads with no option to remove them.
I don't like the use of flags unless the comment is clearly spam or bot generated, and it appears on my OWN post. If it is a view which I disagree with, I would much rather leave a comment in response. I see no sense in downvoting because others may wish to read whatever it is I consider to be offensive or hateful. I am not here to decide for others - so the mute button is a means for the moment for me to remove the delivery of content from peopel who are proven to be non-human, unhelpful, do not concede points in rational ways or just plain stupid ;-)
I am most concerned with finding new content or just seeing content put out by those whom I am following. I wish I could use tags without being confronted with the bot upvoted stuff - perhaps some brilliant coders can write an interface that will remove any content that is upvoted by paying for votes. I would gladly pay an annual subscription to use such a filter.