Using bot services is sometimes also very profitable, many steemit users use bot services, they are small fish that never get the attention of the whales, so they take shortcuts from bot services.Luckily, I have a goodly supply of SBDs to keep experimenting with, with the hopes that I might establish myself as a Steemit personality.
Please keep us updating about these bots as they will help minnows like us a lot. This post was quite informative for me. All the bots don't pay you back equally, so after some experiments you can tell us which bot should we prefer.Well yes as because you can see what votes they can give you via minnowbooster.net and smartsteem.com(you can get whitelisted so that you can get additional facilities of upvotes))
Sometimes they are profitable weel most of the time but sometimes they are not.
Well they are profitable and uses in the case of RS to increase.
term. They retard the growth and full potential of what Steem.
Maybe an option to filter out posts with paid votes would be good for people. If don't come to Steem for ads, I come here for outstanding content. With bid bots in place, sometimes the best content is difficult to find.bots are very usefull to get attention for newbies as well as for others
as steemit doesn't have proper working promotional system ,we can use bots for a while