I Will answer to you with the same word i used to answer to a similar post by @fknmayhem.
I myself made the decision to suspend the use of upvoting bot on my posts... My initial experiment produced disappointing results:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@miti/gentlemen-the-die-is-cast-i-will-never-use-upvote-bots
https://steemit.com/steemit/@miti/my-life-without-bots-a-story-of-declining-ambition
Don't use the upvoting bots and every other authors does, It's suicide.... I don't want to go back, so I think that only a few will read my posts from now on..