Thank you for your response, lafona (and norbu as well), and I truly appreciate your suggestions for being whitelisted. Hopefully the bot operator will see my response to his post and contact me. 

However, the issue here is not simply that posts by original content authors are being "marked" for potential removal. It's that bots aren't set up to deal with Creative Commons or Share-A-Like Attribution at all, which comprises a vast portion of the blogosphere today.

Steemit is a young platform and these are the types of issues that should be dealt with before it reaches maturity. This place can either become a robust community for content producers adding value to the world or yet another digital ghetto, and a firm stance on Creative Commons and other open-source licensing structures early on will be a defining step on that growth path. 

My greatest aspiration for this post is that it sparks such a conversation :D