They are thankfully not entirely bot run. I was able to get in touch with a few people and get the issue, from earlier today at least, taken care of. But I had to do that off steemit which is disappointing to some degree because it doesn't seem that there's a solid way for it to be dealt with/disputed on the platform. 
There definitely needs to be a bit more of a process as opposed to just coming in with a massive downvote/flag that completely obliterates any rewards or dialogue.

Sorry, I hope your text sums up the video, because I can't get Dtube videos to work on my computer.

So, from my understanding, @steemcleaners never starts downvoting off the bat.  There is always a warning message that comes first, unless, on their first inspection it is clearly a bot upvote farm account, or they find numerous(10, 20, 30) copy paste Posts or spam comments that show no content creation effort or originality by the account in question.

Can you please link the aformentioned wife's account instance so that the readers of your blog can have a look for themselves?

Have you, as a more experienced Steemit user, been in contact with @steemcleaners in order to seek resolution and guidance?

I have seen people complaining about steemcleaners before, saying that there was no warning, but then on my own inspection, there were numerous instances of warning(without flagging) that happened.....end of story, or that happened BEFORE they did then followup with flagging. 

ANd if you don't mind, since you did stop by my blog to comment, I can assume that you read my blog post and the analogy to leaves....  would you care to comment on whether you felt this was a valid analogy, that combating spam is necessary (and honestly 1mil steem power to do it is infinitesimal for the current spam load). Or do you feel that ignoring spam is the ideal strategy... and why you feel this would not result in a massive amount of ever growing SP powered spam accounts.

Thanks so much!  I appreciate your thoughts!

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I have seen this happen. We need a direct way of communicating with Steemit when we have a problem. A chat function perhaps? I agree that bots shouldn't be fighting bots. Innocent accounts get caught in the cross fire.

Ok.  I am here to ask @rakkasan84 to reconsider his recent actions.
In this post he is complaining that @steamcleaners misuses their power and responsibility.  However, in another breath he is behaving like a hypocrite and flagging another user, @public-eye, simply because he disagrees with him.

![Capture+_2017-11-15-18-29-32.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmapewHU9cyA9PRHM673xwxtpmZzjAyVECb37vSVhhKGbZ/Capture%2B_2017-11-15-18-29-32.png)

You can see the flagged comment at the bottom of the comments below.  Click on it and read for yourself if it justified a flag.

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I do think the automated aspect of it can be a problem, I have also seen then automatically flag people, but it was resolved and removed after discussing with them.

Just seeing this now and I agree the current rules are harsh.  Many bloggers want all their content in one place.  They don't want the first half of their blog on one website and the second half of it on another.  So there's a few reasons not to bother joining steemit as a content creator.
1. Having to move all content across
2. Not being welcomed for moving their content across
3. Being able to monetise their blogs with advertising on their own websites

irony being this guy downvoted me without comment, or any explanation.