This is false, and misunderstood. You are not using a bot, you are simply telling a bot to go to your post and upvote. The bot is an account made just like anyone else. It's the same as giving your friend who has a steemit account money, to upvote you.
You are not using it to access anything. Again, you are accessing steem through your own account. Not accessing it through a bot.
You are also not extracting data in anyway.
The bots are based on the steemit account and blockchain, which is provided by steemit.
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You are hiring the services of a bot. This is, effectively, using a bot. It is NOT the same as paying a friend, because it is a bot. The bot is accessing the Services of the steem blockchain by automatically upvoting. Upvoting is a Service provided. The automated means of automatically upvoting for money has NOT been provided by steemit.com.
Plain and simple: you are using an automated means, not provided by steemit.com, to game the system and drain the reward pool when you are using a upvote bot.
Or, maybe you think that paying $2500 to promote a crappy article and game $5000 is what steem was designed for?
Bot services are the opposite of the 'proof-of brains' concept, which is supposed to be the core of this whole thing... so where exactly does paying for automated promotion fit into this equation?