thanks for your touching reply, i deleted my comment.
however i will still request you to use the bots less often , we are handing over domination to these bots or banks, whatever you call them.
they are the main cause we are getting more and more shitposts on steemit and after all that, their owners claim that they are fighting scam. i hate them because they are selling something which is not theirs to sell in the first place. even in the real world selling your opinion is considered a shame and that is exactly what these bots are doing.
i suggest you look for gathering more followers organically, by being active in communities like Curie, PAL etc. and believe me the followers that you will add that way, will never need you to promote your posts again in order to give upvotes to you. i am sure after reading you in this comment that you are exceptional writer who may not need these bots altogether.
i am happy to learn that you care about long term success of this platform but handing over your money to these bots will do nothing to save this platform, instead it is pushing steemit towards getting obliviated.
I suggest you buy steem directly or get a big delegation from the money you are investing and power up yourself, your upvotes on other user posts are going to be a much better magnet towards attracting followers and upvotes than these bots.
I respect your direction, it's a huge learning curve here and when you add that to the investment side of it, it's a stressful experience on how to handle things correctly when you are still learning. I am on discord and steem chat not so at least I have people to ask, but this took a lot of time to figure out. I bought thousands of dollars in steem and powered up most of it but saw the opportunity with bots to try what was in front of me, only now am I seeing opinions of others. I will look into Curie and PAL as I would like some real votes, sad thing was when I wasn't using bots I would get comments from people who could have given me a nice vote but instead upvoted themselves in my comments, what a waste...even more so than a bot is what I thought, I will get my own votes. As you can see I try and upvote people who have no SP at all on here as I know how hard it is. I appreciate you taking the time to help me out and I will do my best to be a responsible steemian. Thank you for removing my shit award ))