The use of BOTS has an impact on posts. Is this impact positive or negative?
I only know three types of bots:
UPVOTE: You transfer a certain amount STEEM or STEAM DOLLARS and BOT in your post, certainly with greater voting power than the one invested. You indicate the post to be voted on.
RESTEEM: You transfer an amount of STEEM or STEEM DOLLARS and the BOT makes a RESTEEM of your post, indicated previously. Usually BOT has more than a thousand followers.
WALLET: Profile created just to serve as a community wallet.
UPVOTE BOTS, help a lot is an investment. Yes, it works.
BOTS that do RESTEEM do not work, usually BOT followers are not active. I have already looked at many followers of these BOTS. Few people will see your post, about 10% of BOT followers.
Now the BOT that works as WALLET is a mystery to me. Several people transfer STEEM DOLLARS in large quantities. Who runs this profile? Although WALLET is very transparent, a lot of confidence is involved. I do not believe the human being that much.
In ethical issues involved, cheating, circumventing rules ...
The rule is: Do your best, write well, and use your weapons to make money.