I'm glad that I'm reading this before I really get started with blogging regularly.
I've thought a couple of times to learn more about buying votes, just because I thought it was the norm. You see posts with just one image and 2 lines of text earning more than 50 dollars and start wondering if buying upvotes is the only way to grow.
After reading your post and some other similar backlash against people buying upvotes, I think I'm just going to let everything grow organically without pushing it.
I still have to learn a lot, but posts like these really help me understand this community a bit more.
Thanks!
If you write good content, then for sure use the bots to give it some attention. But within reason of course.
I still don't really know how I'd feel about doing that. Personally, I think my work would have less value to myself if I know that I've skipped part of the growing process by using bots.
Not that I would judge anyone for using bots, seems to be a run of the mill thing on Steemit.