Being completely new to the site, I have little knowledge of the subject, but it seems to me that bots may be temporarily good for individuals, but terrible for the quality of the platform as a whole. If people can get high returns for low effort posts, it encourages them to continue that habit. Not that there's a problem with low effort posts, of course, but ideally they shouldn't be the first thing you see when you visit a site like this. Nor should they be the most heavily rewarded.
To a certain extent, the bots may be important to the site's economy. Still, ultimately, I think their use should be minimized.
Of course, I can't say for sure whether you specifically should use them.
Yeah, that's fairly accurate. Some people use the bid bots for decent quality posts but they don't have to. It would be just as profitable (and less time consuming) to put in low or no effort and reap the same rewards. So there is a fair amount of that going on. If there were limits on how many bots a person could use per post or high they could reach on the trending page I think it might work out better for everyone. But I'm not completely sure about that myself. Welcome to Steemit by the way!
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