I've been experimenting in a similar way. Why believe what this person says, or that person...
Conduct your own experiment and see what happens.
My experiment isn't yet over, so I can neither recommend nor condemn anything.
As for the resteem services, I don't think those tiny upvotes you mention all stem from regular users, it's more like a cocktail (mixed ingredients).
For instance, in some cases, I could observe how the usernames of the upvoters go from A to Z, literally, then, after that, come some organic users... with their upvotes and/or comments.
So, it would actually not seem to be that much more visibility. Not everything that shines is gold, and all that...
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Ya, I am pretty sure 97% or all of my upvotes are programmed voters tied in with the resteem service. It looks good that I got 213 votes, but the bulk of them are fractions of a penny and represent nothing more than a programmed vote. This is why I want human commenters. They represent something much more real. I am not in this just for the money (but it is nice), I want to write stuff that gets read by people. I want to see if there is a point to my effort and how to best reach an actual physical audience. Thank you for commenting and helping me figure out some stuff here.