I have received a few of these types of comments. I reply with this image.
I kind of feel the same way about the upvoting bots. The goal is for the community to produce good content and be paid for that content. If someone can transfer SBD to a bot account and then their posts get auto upvoted it defeats the purpose of the community producing good content for the community. I would rather take a slow and steady growth by gaining real followers and real upvotes than to pay for upvotes.
Now I have nothing against voting trails, because in my experience the voting trail has come from a certain individual (pp are his initials) upvoting my post. That I am ok with because an actual person initiated that. That's just my 2 cents, well 1 cent in my case.
Yeah, I just try to avoid the drama around social media. Steemit is so new and I know it's just going to get better everyday :)
Yeah I try to avoid drama too. I was bad for getting caught up in drama on Facebook. Like I told papa-pepper when he interviewed me, I'm the type of person to step in and take the brunt of an attack when I see the little guy getting picked on. I quit Facebook and now I just hang out here.
It's harder when you have a huge following. I never got into any with my huge following, you should see the hate I receive on a daily bases... don't have time for that, busy creating :)