I have no stands about the bots issues. It might be something new because at the time I'm connected I don't notice the bots.

Concerning the quality of the channel, it's true that it sometimes drifts offtopic but not to an extent where it could cause problems.

We tried having an #offtopic channel and enforce it and all that it brought was NSFW links and NSFW talks.
On the main channel we used to say "bring it to #offtopic" and it just silenced the ones that were talking trash.
They didn't even go to #offtopic to continue the conversation.

If anyone notice that the talks are drifting from the computing topic just mention it in the channel and I think it'll be enough to put everyone back on track.