All that is written here is a deception based on a false premise that allegedly the bots are promoting content to the top where people can noticed and voted for this post.
But, lie is that after the post gets into the top - this post all the same will not receive any voting. No one will vote for you for free when there is an opportunity to sell your voice more than its cost price.
Initially, all these bots were created in order to help make money for those people who were not able to create content that the whales would like. Most often bots gave a votes of about 300% of the investment, and in the dry balance, the buyer received + 12.5% SBD and + 25% to STEEM POWER. A small profit, but still it was guaranteed. This lasted until whales (who are the main investors of bots) decided that it's time to start a complete robbery of ordinary users.
Whales invented a "fairy tale" about that bots should not give any profit at all and should serve only to promote the post to the top, after which the percentage of profitability on boosters fell below the level of profitability.
That is, whales want us to pour in our money from the outside and paid uor money for obviously unprofitable service.
As for moving to the top - this is also a fairy tale, invented by scammers-whales in order to rob us. Even if your post gets to the top - no whale for him will vote for free, because this voice can be sold for good money. The whales did everything to ensure that we always were to lose, so that we lose money, and at the expense of losing our funds, we for a long time kept afloat a financial pyramid called Steemit, with which whales receive tens of thousands of dollars each month. These are the same dollars that are stolen from our pockets, these are the very dollars with which we pay for illusory "promoting" without getting anything in return, in addition to losses, anger, resentment and disappointment in this site.
I several times bought the vote from @jerrybanfield and never received any profit, after recounting the payment for curators, there was always a minus, because the break-even point for SBD is at the level of 266.66%, but this bot never voted with such a force.
I encourage everyone (who is reading me now) to stop using bots until they change their economic model to the one that will bring profit to both parties and not just to whale-investors.