Interesting post. I've played around with bots before (although I'm still very new to the platform as a whole) once when I first started in November and then again later when I thought I knew a little more about what I was doing... and realized I still didn't know what I was doing :)
This is actually written in such a way that I feel like I actually understand it. Great post. Most of these posts just go over my head. I still don't really have an opinion on whether it's "Right" or "wrong" but I feel like it's in part just like marketing or boosting a post on facebook... BUT I don't quite understand all of the dynamics here on steemit, so for the time being, I'm just writing and networking, posting and commenting and finding common interests. That's all I've got at the moment!
Happy I could be another source of perspective! As a journalist, it's my duty to present facts without bias. I have my own motives for why I do things, why I experiment, what I believe in... but this series serves to share experience and invite the reader to take the information and do with it what they will. 🤓