I think that bots a part of steem. We can be both for them and against them. But this does not cancel the fact that they will be used further. Now I rather support the use of bots as so as when you are outside of any community and try to live on your own way when you'll want to promote your post you'll need to use bots. Especially when you are new or at the beginning of your way you don't have many followers so you need to use bots to promote your posts.
But don't forget that:
- when you are using bots you also may loose your money especially when it has negative ROI or exchange rate of Steem SBD falls down;
- some one can crash your profit at last moment if you use bid bots.
Also yu can use bots and services for your profit when you delegate your SP or sell your votes. But before don't forget to read TOS.
Hey @travoved. Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts with us mate. I really appreciate the time you've taken to do so and you make some points that I'm sure could help others in forming their own opinions.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your day buddy!