Hi @practicalthought. Sorry to hear about those bad bots! I was just cursing them earlier for what I thought was sure to be a con-game. Glad I never tried - thanks for the heads-up!
Try using the hashtag #informationwar if you think you're stories are aligned with the community. @stevescoins recently started a discord channel for us and we now used it to help promote our content, among other things. Steve and the crew have done an awesome job of growing our community. You know a few of em. There is also a lot of potential for cross-pollenation (contact sharing, resteeming, etc) that needs to be exploited on this site. It's built for that. We'll talk about that in more detail later
There's a fair bit of info on here about it...but I'm too tired to track it right now...about to log off. Don't want to hog or derail vickie's (sorry @vickiebarker !) comment section so I'll try and comment on your content tmrw. Or, start a new thread on one of my posts. Ttyl, have a good one.