RE: Bot or not??
The issue many have is that people are doing cut and paste theft of content and then using bots to gain lots of rewards. I have a serious issue with this and if my voting weight was enough I would just crush these posts with downvotes.
If someone is making quality posts...or rather at least making 100% original content posts then I'm all for those people using bots to promote their posts. Self Promotion is part of everything we do in life and those that can't see that probably have a hard time understanding why their piers are always "so lucky".
Paid votes alone aren't going to get you huge rewards as the votes are typically break even at best and many times actually a loss. So if your content sucks the paid votes alone won't be any benefit. You need to then capture some other votes by hitting the hot or trending pages, without the added votes you just burned money.
Im actually inspired by the idea of doing and succeeding based on content coupled with genuine and authentic connection. Id like to investigate my writing skills as i have plans for future. Not even end of week one still masses and masses to learn but that will come and doesnt seem as important as just being part of something and adding to it.
Yes there is so much to learn and new stuff gets added all the time.